The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Center dedicated to developing advanced biofuels—liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.

JBEI develops:

• bioenergy crops engineered to have low susceptibility to disease and drought and be readily deconstructed into sugar and aromatic intermediates that can be nearly fully utilized by the engineered biofuel- and bioproduct-producing microorganism an integrated, feedstock agnostic deconstruction process using renewable and biocompatible ionic liquids that liberates a high yield of the sugars and lignin-derived intermediates suitable for biological conversion
• microorganisms engineered with a metabolism to simultaneously utilize the sugars and aromatics resulting from the deconstruction process (and thus match the composition of the engineered plants) and produce a variety of fuels and bioproducts at industrially relevant titers, rates and yields
• new technologies and methods to meet current & future needs in biofuels research by increasing throughput, decreasing reagent use, increasing measurement fidelity and reducing assay time