Employment

The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) is a new multi-organizational research center comprising world-class resources and expertise located in one facility at Emeryville, California. The goal of JBEI is to use rapidly advancing scientific techniques, such as systems and synthetic biology, to accelerate development of the nation's biofuels industry. JBEI is a U.S. Department of Energy funded Bioenergy Research Center, managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) with partners from 5 internationally recognized scientific institutions: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), University of California-Davis (UCD), University of California-Berkeley (UCB), and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

JBEI's goals focus on breaking the barriers to efficient conversion of lignocellulosic material into biofuels. The team is establishing a highly integrated research center aimed at engineering plants for better processing, efficient protocols for pretreatment and optimized microorganisms for increased biofuels production. We are currently forming a start-up team of bioinformaticians, postdoctoral researchers, and technicians in the areas of plant biology, enzymology, biochemical and chemical engineering, functional genomics, applied microbiology, fermentation, molecular biology, genetics, and bioinformatics that will expand to approximately 150 staff by the end of summer 2008.