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The Joint BioEnergy Institute, or JBEI, is a scientific partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and including the Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia), the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California (UC) campuses of Berkeley and Davis, and the Carnegie Institution for Science, located at Stanford University. Headquartered in EmeryStation East, a state-of-the-art laboratory building in Emeryville, JBEI serves as one of three new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs).
JBEI's primary scientific mission is to advance the development of the next generation of biofuels – liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass that can replace gasoline.
"JBEI is designed to be an engine of ingenuity, dynamically organized with all the scientific teams working together in a single location to enable researchers to share ideas and address cellulosic biomass problems at a systems level. Within 60 miles of JBEI, we have available some of the world’s foremost authorities on energy, plant biology, systems and synthetic biology, imaging, nanoscience, and computation, plus the highest concentration of national laboratories and research universities in the nation."