Blake A. Simmons

Joint BioEnergy Institute
Vice-President, Deconstruction Division
5885 Hollis Street
Emeryville, CA
USA 94608
Email: basimmons@lbl.gov, basimmo@sandia.gov

Papers:
5-04 Ternary aqueous ionic liquid system for the pretreatment of mixed agave bagasse and municipal solid waste 7-07 Impact of lignin composition on biomass recalcitrance of engineered Arabidopsis 13-04 High-Throughput Screening of Biomass for Identification of Key Biofuel Traits Using Vibrational Spectroscopy Application of advanced integrated imaging methods in the field of biomass degradation for biofuel production Directed evolution of a beta-glucosidase for ionic liquid tolerance M50 Towards a Predictive Control for Ionic Liquid enabled Lignocellulosic Biomass Conversion:  Computational Perspective M59 Unveiling ionic liquid deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass using glycome profiling M84 High-throughput cellulase activity profiling on ionic liquid pretreated biomass M92 Optimization of a recombinant multicomponent enzyme mixture for saccharification of ionic liquid pretreated biomass M94 Effects of lignolytic enzymes and the Fenton reaction on lignin depolymerization assayed using lignin films M152 Assessment of municipal solid waste as a blend feedstock to lower biomass feedstock costs ST2-04 Advanced Biofuels Research and Development at the Joint BioEnergy Institute T60 Advances in ionic liquid pretreatment technologies: Impact on the economics of cellulosic biofuel production T150 Routine culture-based assay for screening microbial lignin deconstruction