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John Gladden

Institution
Joint BioEnergy Institute
ORCID
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Projects

Towards understanding enzymatic diversity in biological lignin degradation

Lead Institution
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Gregg Beckham
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Lignin is an alkyl-aromatic polymer comprising 15-30% of plant cell walls. It is underutilized in selective conversion processes to produce renewable fuels and chemicals from plant biomass, and is…

Elucidating the Influences of Engineered N-glycosylation Motifs in Bacterial Biomass Hydrolyzing Enzymes upon Heterologous and Native Gene Expression, Secretion and Degradation in Aspergillus niger

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jon Magnuson
Project type
FICUS Research
Aspergillus niger is a genetically tractable model organism for scientific discovery and a platform organism used in industry for the production of enzymes for biomass degradation and other…

Building the lignin metabolic map for the production of advanced biofuels

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Blake Simmons
Project type
Special Science
The overall goal of this project is to develop a metabolic map in four targeted organisms using 13C-labeled versions of the lignin-derived model compounds known to be capable of supporting microbial…

Understanding Biomass Conversion within Thermophilic Communities and Isolates

Lead Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Steven Singer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Efficient deconstruction of lignocellulose into monomeric sugars is a key step in the development of renewable and sustainable liquid transportation fuels from biomass. The DOE Joint BioEnergy…