DOE Scholars - 2025 - Biological and Environmental Research

The DOE Scholars Program is designed to attract talented undergraduate and graduate students, and recent graduates to research, technical and professional opportunities within U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and organizations that support the DOE mission. This opportunity is funded by U.S. Department of Energy's Biological and Environmental Research as part of the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) Bioenergy Research Center. CABBI's mission is to develop efficient ways to grow bioenergy crops, transform biomass into valuable chemicals, and market the resulting biofuels and other bioproducts. It aims to integrate recent advances in agronomics, genomics, and synthetic and computation biology to increase the value of energy crops and help reduce our nation's dependence on fossil fuels. The U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service's (USDA-ARS) role in CABBI is to develop high-yielding energy cane varieties that are adapted to the southeastern United States. Assessment of different varieties of cane for yield and quality traits will be conducted as part of this project, which falls under the Feedstock Production theme of CABBI.