Senior Scientist | Bioenergy 🌱 & circular plastics ♻️ LCA/TEA | Mom of 2 | Opinions=own (she/her)
Joined June 2017
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14 Feb 2025
Doing my best to connect energy researchers with opportunities today. I cannot promise super fast responses but feel free to fill this out: forms.gle/KDoKz3u1Pd41ruaf8 (usually I send this to PhD students and postdocs, but opening it up more broadly given the circumstances)
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19 Dec 2025
We ♥️ our collaborators at escience.washington.edu/! Thank you to @schmidtsciences for supporting the partnership. The calbioscape.org tool is now lightening fast and primed for impact 🙌 escience.washington.edu/ca-b…
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16 Dec 2025
Daughter, today at breakfast: "The only thing I know about Spongebob Squarepants is that he is a big piece of cheese"
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16 Oct 2025
A little 3.1 jolt to get us all in the mood for the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill later this morning!
16 Oct 2025
🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M3.1 occurred 12 mi NE of San Francisco (#California) 3 min ago (local time 09:23:45). More info at:
📱m.emsc.eu/#app
🌐m.emsc.eu/?id=1882050
🖥emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_inf…
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14 Sep 2025
Thanks to @BerkeleyLab for the commitment to outreach. It is always one of my kids' favorite spots on the Solano Stroll. Educating the next generation of scientists 👩🔬🧑🔬
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Corinne Scown retweeted
11 Sep 2025
The Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) connects industry with world-class research at UC Berkeley, LBNL & UIUC. With 7,000 faculty/postdocs & 100,000 students, we help sponsors grow research portfolios through one contract, driving #impact in #energy & #sustainability.
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8 Sep 2025
Loving seeing these collaborations between @jbei @CABBIbio and @GLBioenergy -- the BRCs are on a ROLL.
In a cross-country collaboration, researchers from CABBI, @GLBioenergy and @jbei developed industrially feasible techniques for second-generation #biofuel production from oilcane, a variety of sugarcane, to help meet the growing demand for fuels.
News ➡️ cabbi.bio/pretreatment-metho…
ALT A photo of three researchers standing in front of bioprocessing equipment at the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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5 Aug 2025
Another @jbei publication hot off the presses! 7 herbaceous, 9 woody, 4 food processing residues, and 2 blends all decontructed using butylamine. We can hit $1.3 to 6.1/kg sugar now, process intensification needed to hit $0.45–0.79/kg. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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5 Aug 2025
Using lignocellulosic biomass for biomanufacturing has long been the dream. Low-input grasses, ag residues, you name it. One challenge remains: microbes consume xylose more slowly than glucose. Our @jbei team digs into what this means in our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2…
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5 Aug 2025
How much xylan vs. glucan is in your original feedstock REALLY matters. Capital-constrained biorefineries operating with shorter residence times can justify paying up to 1.5X to 2X the price for feedstocks with very high glucan to xylan ratios.
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5 Aug 2025
So what does this mean? Well, you can engineer plants to increase the glucan to xylan ratio. You can select feedstocks with a more favorable ratio. And/or you can focus on hosts and other bioprocessing strategies to enable full consumption of both sugars in less time.
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Corinne Scown retweeted
29 Jul 2025
If you're submitting an #AGU2025 abstract on #enhancedrockweathering biogeochemistry, microbiology, hydrology, modeling, MRV, public policy or social science, consider session B037, Enhanced Weathering for Carbon Dioxide Removal & Improved Soil and Agronomic Properties -due 7/30!
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23 Jul 2025
Mike has been a really wonderful leader. Supportive, curious, and a true believer in the important mission of the national labs. I feel so lucky to have spent so much of my career at LBNL with him at the helm.
23 Jul 2025
Lab Director Mike Witherell will retire in June 2026. Witherell has led the Lab through a historic period of scientific achievement and recognized operational excellence, with a deep commitment to developing the next generation of scientists.
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newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/07/2…
ALT Color, vertical portrait of Mike Witherell, with black background. Photo by Christopher Michel.
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8 Jul 2025
In light of news that they might get their budget cut, I just want to share how absolutely amazing the CSB’s investigations and videos for the public are. I used them for teaching. It always made me proud that our government supports stuff like this: youtube.com/@uscsb?si=lXTwYF…
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1 Jul 2025
We have a team of rising stars at @BerkeleyLab @BerkeleyLabETA who are doing incredible work in critical materials & supply chain research. Keep an eye out for more from this team. Here are just a few recent papers (including preprints):
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1 Jul 2025
U.S. battery material supply chains and recycling costs: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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1 Jul 2025
The potential for cost-competitive lithium extraction from clay relative to brines and hard rock ores: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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