Energy Archives - Genome BC

Converting waste gas into high value flavours and fragrances...

Vancouver, Canada —Chemical by-products from the production of fossil fuels have a wide variety of uses. These molecular compounds are highly valued and used to make everything f...

August 23, 2019

Energy

Optimizing Hydrolytic Enzymes and Lignocellulosic substrates toward ma...

Using the excess beetle-killed pine as a source of fermentable sugars, the researchers used genomics to determine the most efficient methods to liberate fermentable sugars from the...

October 25, 2018

Energy

Optimized Populus feedstocks and novel enzyme systems for a British Co...

The goal of this project was to use genomic and metabolomic approaches to characterize the phenotypic and genetic diversity in of native BC Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood, o...

October 25, 2018

Energy

Genomics of Sunflower...

Worldwide, sunflower oilseed crops are valued at about $20 billion annually and sunflower species are grown commercially on 22 million hectares around the globe, currently the worl...

October 25, 2018

Energy

POPCAN- Genetic improvement of poplar trees as a Canadian bioenergy fe...

The extensive use of fossil fuels is a key contributor to climate change. The Government of Canada mandated a five percent renewable fuel content in gasoline, however production is...

July 23, 2018

Energy

Metagenomics for Greener Production and Extraction of Hydrocarbon Ener...

This project proposed to characterize whole genomes of bacterial communities that naturally live in environments from which we extract energy, such as oil sands and coal beds. ...

October 17, 2017

Energy

Synthetic Biosystems for the Production of High-Value Plant Metabolite...

The PhytoMetaSyn Project used massively parallel DNA sequencing to investigate the processes and biosynthetic pathways by which selected plant species produced high-value plant met...

October 17, 2017

Energy

Microbial community structure and dynamics associated with controlled ...

One of the pillars of British Columbia’s bioenergy strategy requires the use of blended biofuels including ethanol, methanol and biodiesel. Despite the promise of using blend...

October 17, 2017

Energy

Genetic Engineering for Photosynthetic Proteins for Solar Energy...

Solar power is an abundant sustainable energy source: in a single hour, the sun irradiates enough energy to meet humanity's needs for an entire year. However, solar energy is curre...

October 11, 2017

Forestry Energy

BC’s hot springs could be key player in new biomaterials...

Vancouver, BC — BC’s forest products industry faces major challenges due to global competition and the decline in demand for traditional products such as newsprint. At the...

September 12, 2017

Energy

Can genomics help fuel the future?...

Genomics could be employed to develop better tools that, in turn, provide the kind of breakthroughs necessary to make the production of biofuels a viable alternative to fossil fuel...

August 22, 2017 | Brandon Nichols

Energy

Eating Junk: Using Bacteria to clean waste water from BC mines...

An amazing thing about bacteria is they are capable of “eating” or neutralising contaminants in harmful wastewater from mining — a process known as bioremediation. Bioremedia...

August 22, 2017 | Jenny Chik

Agrifood Energy

Publication of sunflower genome in Nature will accelerate global rese...

Vancouver, BC – Cultivated sunflowers are one of the five largest oilseed crops in the world and until now sunflower is the last of these crops to have its genome fully sequence...

May 23, 2017

Energy Environment

BC scientists searching for genomics solutions to clean up oil sand pr...

Vancouver, BC — Bitumen, like its cousin conventional crude oil, is made up of organic compounds containing carbon and hydrogen. The main difference between the two is the ratio...

January 23, 2017

Energy

Novel micro-organisms could aid search for renewable fuels...

Vancouver, BC – The desire for the discovery of renewable liquid fuels and commodity chemicals has escalated. This is due to the environmental impact of current production metho...

June 10, 2015

Energy

SUSTAINABLE BIOENERGY – Genomics adds a new dimension to LNG and...

Vancouver, BC – As the province looks for sustainable energy alternatives to help offset the impact of climate change, two sectors are emerging with the potential to fuel econo...

November 13, 2014