A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has been awarded $9.2 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy to research modifying E. coli to produce biofuels such as gasoline. âThis is a fantastic opportunity to take what we have worked on for the past decade to the next level,â said team leader Ryan Gill, a fellow of CU-Boulderâs Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, or RASEI. âIn this project, we will develop technologies that are orders of magnitude beyond where we are currently.â