International Year of Sustainable Energy for all
Today is the first day of the World Future Energy summit, marking the start of the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for all. The theme of the summit… Read more »
Helen is part of the Biological Sciences publishing team at BioMed Central. She obtained her PhD in molecular ecology from the University of Glasgow, UK. Her post-doctoral studies in aquaculture genetics took her from Scotland to South Africa, before joining BMC in 2008.
Latest posts by Helen Whitaker (see all)
- Biotechnology for a bio-based economy - 5th June 2019
- Sustainable energy at the American Chemical Society Spring meeting - 11th April 2018
- Biotechnology for Biofuels – Special Issue on Life Cycle Analysis - 17th May 2017
International Year of Sustainable Energy for all
Today is the first day of the World Future Energy summit, marking the start of the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for all. The theme of the summit… Read more »
Why grass (and weeds) may be greener
An interesting headline of No-Kill Farming: The rise of low-cost low-carbon biofuels through continuous harvest, took the lead in Biofuels Digest earlier this… Read more »
Fruit and nuts for both food and fuel
The biofuel that you put in your car could one day be, quite literally, peachy. A recent survey published in Biotechnology for Biofuels presents interesting… Read more »
USDA goes cellulosic
It has been a momentous week for biofuels in the United States, starting with the announcement on Tuesday 27 Sept, by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, that… Read more »
Neural Stem Cell focus in Cambridge
BioMed Central attended the Cambridge Neural Stem Cell Symposium last week. The meeting was co-hosted by the Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative to bring together… Read more »
Friends of friendly bacteria
The proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB10) are published today in Microbial Cell Factories. The LAB10 Symposium brings together… Read more »
The search for rotten enzymes
Bio-prospecting for naturally occurring enzymes, involved in decay and digestion, is an appealing strategy to find better ways to convert woody and recalcitrant… Read more »
Biotechnology for Biofuels welcomes Debra Mohnen as co-Editor-in-Chief
Biotechnology for Biofuels welcomes Professor Debra Mohnen (University of Georgia) as a new Editor-in-Chief, joining Charles Wyman, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal and… Read more »
Biotechnology for Biofuels welcomes Debra Mohnen as co-Editor-in-Chief
Biotechnology for Biofuels welcomes Professor Debra Mohnen (University of Georgia) as a new Editor-in-Chief, joining Charles Wyman, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal and… Read more »