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Circular infographic with the Biomass Innovation Hub at the center, showing coordinated engagement across university research units (OVCRI, ACES, LAS, COE, IGB, iSEE, IBRL, IFAB) and external stakeholders, including farmers, industry, and policymakers, to advance biomass-based innovation and commercialization.

BIH leverages infrastructure and programming from ACES, IGB, UI Foundation, and iSEE.

Facilities include the Energy Farm, IBRL, and iFAB, with support from the Net-Zero Center.

Layered diagram of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign bioeconomy ecosystem. The base layer shows the UIUC Research Park. Above it are campus units, including the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences; Grainger College of Engineering; Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; National Center for Supercomputing Applications; Prairie Research Institute; and School of Labor and Employment Relations, with associated departments listed beneath each.

The next layer highlights shared research facilities, including at-scale compute resources, biofoundries, biotech and chemistry centers, crop transformation facilities, energy farms, feed technology centers, field trial and phenotyping networks, high-throughput phenotyping greenhouses, in-field robotics, integrated bioprocessing research laboratories, microscopy and imaging facilities, soy-FACE, and spidercam field phenotyping.

The top layer lists major center grants and initiatives, including AIFARMS, the Alliance for Socially Acceptable and Actionable Plants, iBioFoundry, IFAB, the Molecule Maker Lab Institute, the Biomass Innovation Hub, PreFerS, RIPE, the Global Center for Biofoundry Applications, and the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI).

Biomass Innovation Hub

1101 W. Peabody, Suite 350 (NSRC)

Urbana, IL 61801

217-333-4178

Email: biomassinnovationhub@illinois.edu

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