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Overview

Blake A. Simmons is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches involving biomedical engineering, molecular biology, plant science, biotechnology, and catalysis.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction
  • Lignin and wood chemistry
  • Catalysis for biomass conversion
  • Enzyme-mediated dye degradation
  • Biochemical and biochemical processes
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications

They have published extensively, contributing articles to prominent publication venues such as:

  • Green Chemistry
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Metabolic Engineering

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and thematic focus of their research. These include:

  • "Machine learning for metabolic engineering: A review" (2020), published in Metabolic Engineering
  • "A comparative genomics study of 23 Aspergillus species from section Flavi" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Review of advances in the development of laccases for the valorization of lignin to enable the production of lignocellulosic biofuels and bioproducts" (2021), published in Biotechnology Advances
  • "Adaptive laboratory evolution of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 improves p-coumaric and ferulic acid catabolism and tolerance" (2020), published in Metabolic Engineering Communications
  • "The complex polyploid genome architecture of sugarcane" (2024), published in Nature

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their scientific activity, with frequent co-authors including John M. Gladden, Hemant Choudhary, Steven W. Singer, Seema Singh, and Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, highlighting sustained partnerships within the research community.

Best Publications

  • MaxBin 2.0: an automated binning algorithm to recover genomes from multiple metagenomic datasets

    Yu Wei Wu;Yu Wei Wu;Blake A. Simmons;Blake A. Simmons;Blake A. Simmons;Steven W. Singer;Steven W. Singer

  • Comparison of dilute acid and ionic liquid pretreatment of switchgrass: Biomass recalcitrance, delignification and enzymatic saccharification.

    Chenlin Li;Bernhard Knierim;Chithra Manisseri;Rohit Arora

  • The challenge of enzyme cost in the production of lignocellulosic biofuels

    Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer;Piotr Oleskowicz-Popiel;Piotr Oleskowicz-Popiel;Blake A. Simmons;Blake A. Simmons;Blake A. Simmons;Harvey W. Blanch;Harvey W. Blanch;Harvey W. Blanch

  • Influence of connectivity and porosity on ligand-based luminescence in zinc metal-organic frameworks.

    Christina A Bauer;Tatiana V Timofeeva;Thomas B Settersten;Brian D Patterson

  • The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)

    Daniela S. Gerhard;Lukas Wagner;Elise A. Feingold;Carolyn M. Shenmen

  • MaxBin: an automated binning method to recover individual genomes from metagenomes using an expectation-maximization algorithm.

    Yu Wei Wu;Yu Wei Wu;Yung Hsu Tang;Yung Hsu Tang;Susannah G. Tringe;Susannah G. Tringe;Blake A. Simmons;Blake A. Simmons

  • Dielectrophoretic Concentration and Separation of Live and Dead Bacteria in an Array of Insulators

    Blanca H Lapizco-Encinas;Blake A Simmons;Eric B Cummings;Yolanda Fintschenko

  • Design of low-cost ionic liquids for lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment

    Anthe George;Agnieszka Brandt;Kim Tran;Shahrul M. S. Nizan S. Zahari

  • In vivo lipidomics using single-cell Raman spectroscopy

    Huawen Wu;Joanne V. Volponi;Ann E. Oliver;Atul N. Parikh

  • Transition of cellulose crystalline structure and surface morphology of biomass as a function of ionic liquid pretreatment and its relation to enzymatic hydrolysis.

    Gang Cheng;Gang Cheng;Patanjali Varanasi;Patanjali Varanasi;Chenlin Li;Chenlin Li;Hanbin Liu;Hanbin Liu

  • Insulator‐based dielectrophoresis for the selective concentration and separation of live bacteria in water

    Blanca H. Lapizco-Encinas;Blake A. Simmons;Eric B. Cummings;Yolanda Fintschenko

  • Visualization of biomass solubilization and cellulose regeneration during ionic liquid pretreatment of switchgrass

    Seema Singh;Blake A. Simmons;Blake A. Simmons;Kenneth P. Vogel

  • A mosaic monoploid reference sequence for the highly complex genome of sugarcane

    Olivier Garsmeur;Olivier Garsmeur;Gaëtan Droc;Gaëtan Droc;Rudie Antonise;Jane Grimwood

  • Recent innovations in analytical methods for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of lignin

    Jason S. Lupoi;Jason S. Lupoi;Seema Singh;Seema Singh;Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi;Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi;Blake A. Simmons;Blake A. Simmons;Blake A. Simmons

  • Synthesis of three advanced biofuels from ionic liquid-pretreated switchgrass using engineered Escherichia coli

    Gregory Bokinsky;Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya;Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya;Anthe George;Anthe George;Bradley M. Holmes;Bradley M. Holmes

  • A single-base resolution map of an archaeal transcriptome

    Omri Wurtzel;Rajat Sapra;Feng Chen;Yiwen Zhu

  • Understanding the interactions of cellulose with ionic liquids: a molecular dynamics study.

    Hanbin Liu;Kenneth L. Sale;Bradley M. Holmes;Blake A. Simmons

  • Techno-economic analysis of a lignocellulosic ethanol biorefinery with ionic liquid pre-treatment

    Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer;Blake A. Simmons;Harvey W. Blanch

  • Biomass pretreatment using deep eutectic solvents from lignin derived phenols

    Kwang Ho Kim;Kwang Ho Kim;Tanmoy Dutta;Tanmoy Dutta;Jian Sun;Jian Sun;Blake Simmons;Blake Simmons

  • Efficient biomass pretreatment using ionic liquids derived from lignin and hemicellulose

    Aaron M. Socha;Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi;Jian Shi;Sivakumar Pattathil

Frequent Co-Authors

Seema Singh
Seema Singh Sandia National Laboratories
Steven W. Singer
Steven W. Singer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Paul D. Adams
Paul D. Adams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jay D. Keasling
Jay D. Keasling University of California, Berkeley
Terry C. Hazen
Terry C. Hazen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jian Shi
Jian Shi University of Kentucky
Harvey W. Blanch
Harvey W. Blanch University of California, Berkeley
Anup K. Singh
Anup K. Singh Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Aindrila Mukhopadhyay
Aindrila Mukhopadhyay Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Rafael V. Davalos
Rafael V. Davalos Virginia Tech

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