Did You Know? Learn more about course credits you can get at IBRL here: ibrl.aces.illinois.edu/classes/

Happy National Women in Engineering Day! 👩‍🔬 Shoutout to all the incredible female employees at IBRL for their dedication and hard work in advancing bioprocessing and research. Your contributions make a huge impact! 🙌

Yesterday, both IBRL and the FSHN-PPP hosted a group of rising high school seniors as part of the 2025 Gies Emerging Business Leaders Program. Thank you Gies Business for visiting us and learning more about our pilot plants as well as the iFAB Tech Hub!

IBRL is a key partner in the $115M CABBI grant, supporting research to convert biomass into valuable biofuels & bioproducts. With state-of-the-art facilities & expert staff, we help scale up innovative projects. Learn more: 🔗 ibrl.aces.illinois.edu

Congratulations to Will, the FASTER Intern of the Month for July!🎉

Registration for our Fall 2025 Fermentation Short Course is now open! This intermediate level course covers precision fermentation at pilot scale from start to finish. Learn more & register: ibrl.aces.illinois.edu/fall-2025-ferm…

Last week, NUS students visited IBRL & FSHN-PPP! After a morning of presentations on precision fermentation, downstream processing, and food science, students were given tours of both the IBRL and FSHN pilot plants. Thank you for the visit, NUS!

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More than 280 researchers from across the country are gathered at @Uofillinois for CABBI's annual retreat! 🌱 Director Andrew Leakey highlighted the latest #CABBI discoveries & innovations toward a new #bioeconomy: "This year is the best year we've had collectively as a team." 🙌

We want to give a huge shoutout to some of our external partners such as BioMade, AOCS, DSM, and many more amazing organizations! Their support means so much and we look forward to continue working with them! Check out the rest of our partners 👇👇: ibrl.aces.illinois.edu/external-partn…

Why Illinois? Champaign-Urbana & Decatur are at the heart of agriculture, home to 71,000+ family-owned farms and a thriving AgTech ecosystem. Illinois is: 🌱 #1 in soybean production 🌽 #2 in corn production 🚜 482k+ agriculture jobs Learn more here: ifabtechhub.research.illinois.edu/why-illinois/

📣The latest addition to our extensive list of bioprocessing equipment is a new pilot scale multi-column chromatography skid courtesy of Applexion, a global supplier of key purification technologies. Learn more: tinyurl.com/applexion

Congratulations to our Student Intern of the Month for August, Haile Yang! 🎉

Happy National Fermentation Day!🥳 We're celebrating by spotlighting our amazing past fermentation short courses at IBRL from Spring '24 to Spring '25. Learn more about our Fermentation Short Courses and sign up for the next one this fall, Oct. 7-9: ibrl.aces.illinois.edu/fermentation-s…

Last week, IBRL hosted a custom short course for team members at @BioMADE! The three-day course included activities in our pilot plant and tours of the Boston Bioprocess lab at the University of Illinois Research Park as well as the Primient/iPROOF facilities in Decatur.

The #UofISystemStaffdel continued their afternoon with stops at the Energy Farm and IBRL, which focuses on the commercialization of bioproducts with partnerships across the Illinois Ag Tech Corridor! College of ACES

Please give a warm welcome to both Alexander Polidore and Erin Kealey, who have recently joined the IBRL team as our newest full time staff!

Want to join the IBRL team? We're hiring a Bioprocessing Pilot Plant Junior Specialist or Specialist! 🔗 Learn more and apply today: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…