Michael Thelen, Hannah Woo and Blake Simmons, Joint BioEnergy Institute (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Michael Thelen, Hannah Woo and Blake Simmons, Joint BioEnergy Institute

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From left, Michael Thelen, Hannah Woo and Blake Simmons of the Joint BioEnergy Institute have determined how a rain forest microbe is able to survive in an ionic liquid used to pre-treat cellulosic biomass for the production of advance biofuels.

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(Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab)

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