Systems Biology for Energy and the Environment

The Genomic Science program pursues fundamental research to understand, predict, manipulate, and design plant and microbial systems for innovations in renewable energy, insights into environmental processes, and biotechnological breakthroughs supporting the U.S. bioeconomy.

New Report Available From the Structural Biology Community

Mar 22, 2023
Genomes to Structure and Function Workshop Report 2022 Released
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DOE Announces $150 Million for Research on the Science Foundations for Energy Earthshots

Mar 21, 2023
A webinar on this opportunity will be held on March 27th at 12:30 p.m. EST.
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DOE Accepting Applications: Undergraduate Internships and Visiting Faculty

Mar 20, 2023
SULI, CCI, and VFP applications are due 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, May 25, 2023.
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DOE Announces $590 Million to Renew Bioenergy Research Center Funding

Mar 20, 2023
Funding to Four Bioenergy Research Centers Will Help Strengthen Diversity of Domestic Clean Energy Sources, Enhance Our Energy Security, and Revitalize Rural Economies
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Letters of Intent for JGI-EMSL FICUS Research Due March 15

Mar 10, 2023
Successful proposals will have access to capabilities from both DOE user facilities
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FUNDING: DOE SCGSR Program 2023 Solicitation 1 Cycle

Feb 8, 2023
Applications for DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program 2022 Solicitation 1 cycle due Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at 5pm ET.
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DOE Job Opportunity: Associate Director, Office of Biological and Environmental Research

Jan 24, 2023
Seeking early career researchers. Applications due by February 7
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Bioenergy

Providing the foundational genomics-based knowledge needed to produce and deconstruct renewable plant biomass and convert it to sustainable fuels, chemicals, and other bioproducts.

Biosystems Design

Accelerating the ability to securely design, build, and control plants and microbes for beneficial purposes such as clean energy, biomaterials, and carbon sequestration.

Environmental Microbiome

Developing a process-level understanding of how plant and soil microbial communities impact the cycling and fate of carbon, nutrients, and contaminants in the environment.

Enabling Capabilities

Computing and Cyberinfrastructure

Open-access and integrated computational and bioinformatic capabilities tailored to large-scale data science for research on plants, microbes, and their communities

Biomolecular Characterization and Imaging Science

Imaging and measurement technologies enabling visualization of the relationships among biomolecules, cellular compartments, and higher-order biological systems

DOE Scientific User Facilities

Integrated capabilities across user facilities and resources for genome sequencing and analysis, DNA design and synthesis, molecular sciences, structural biology, and imaging

Bioenergy Research Centers

Four Bioenergy Research Centers—each led by a DOE national laboratory or top university—take distinctive approaches to the common goal of improving and scaling up advanced biofuel and bioproduct production processes.

The multidisciplinary teams are tackling fundamental science challenges in:

Sustainability
Feedstock development
Deconstruction and separation
Conversion

Their research is identifying the genomic underpinnings of complex plant traits in promising bioenergy crops and streamlining deconstruction processes to funnel plant components into defined process streams. The centers are designing new pathways in microbes to convert plant biomass to a range of fuels, chemicals, and bioproducts. They also are developing the agronomic understanding needed to sustainably manage and produce bioenergy crops on marginal lands.