December 27, 2005 Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher’s laboratory have gained new insight into how cells move and grow. Dr. Daniel Fletcher, bioengineering graduate students Sapun Parekh and Ovijit Chaudhuri, and Julie Theriot of Stanford University published their findings in the Dec. 2005 issue ofNature Cell Biology.
Archives for 2005
Synthetic Bio students build messaging bacteria
December 2005 UC Berkeley students competed in the 2005 intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine, or iGEM, competition. Nine teams fielded by universities and colleges from San Francisco to Zurich spent their summers engineering bacteria to accomplish a specific task using modified DNA components called BioBricks.
Luke Lee on biologically-inspired optics in Science
November 18, 2005 A review article by bioengineering Associate Professor Luke Lee was featured on the cover of the journal Science today. The featured image is of an artificial compound eye created in Lee’s lab at UC Berkeley, inspired by compound eyes found in nature and microfabricated in three dimensions in polymer resin.
BioE research wins poster session AGAIN
November 16, 2005 Fletcher Lab undergrads continued their domination of the semi-annual undergraduate poster session with Joanna Lee winning the content prize in the Fall 2005 Engineering, Science & Natural Resources Poster Session.
Seung-wuk Lee named Nano 50
November 2005 Our newest bioengineering professor, Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee, just received one of the first-ever Nano 50 Awards from Nanotech Briefs journal. This award recognizes the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted – or are expected to impact – the state of the art in nanotechnology.
Head-Gordon receives cyber-chemistry grant
November 1, 2005 Bioengineering Professor Teresa Head-Gordon is one of four researchers across the country to be selected as a principal investigator for the new “cyber-enabled chemistry” grants from the National Science Foundation.
Conboy and Healy in Lab Notes
October 2005 Bioengineering Professors Irina Conboy and Kevin Healy are featured in this month’s Lab Notes, research news from the College of Engineering. The article profiles their collaboration with David Schaffer of chemical engineering to develop injectable materials for delivering stem cells to the body. They plan to use the stem-cell seeded hydrogel to protect […]
Lee lab collects awards at nano conference
October 2005 Bioengineering graduate students from Professor Luke Lee’s research group garnered a collection of high-profile honors at the Ninth International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS), held in Boston from October 9th to 13th.
Fletcher lab researchers explain bacterial movement
September 23, 2005 Joshua Shaevitz, Miller Research Fellow in Integrated Biology and member of Professor Dan Fletcher’s laboratory, is lead author on a paper describing the twirly way Spiroplasma bacteria get around.