BioE News
Arkin and Keasling new AAM Fellows
May 2007 Bioengineering Professors Adam Arkin and Jay Keasling have been elected Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Read MoreSeung-Wuk Lee’s Paper Among Society’s ‘Top 5’
May 2007 A paper by Bioengineering Assistant Professor Seung-Wuk Lee was chosen as one of the “Top 5 Hot Talks / Cool Papers” at the 2007 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, held in San Francisco in April.
Read MoreBioE continues poster session domination!
April 19, 2007 Bioengineering undergrad Albert Mach received the Best Verbal Presentation award in today’s College of Engineering Undergraduate Spring Poster Session.
Read MoreRubinsky punches holes in cells
February 12, 2007 A large animal study has given further support to bioengineering and mechanical engineering professor Boris Rubinsky’s irreversible electroporation technique.
Read MoreJay Keasling profiled in Science
February 9, 2007 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was profiled in the February 9, 2007 issue of Science magazine.
Read MoreBerkeley wins $500mil energy grant
February 1, 2007 – We are pleased to announce that a Berkeley-led partnership has been chosen to receive a $500 million grant from the energy firm BP to develop new, cleaner sources of fuel. The campus will partner with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in a 10-year effort, known…
Read MoreFletcher Lab publishes in Nature
January 18, 2007 – Two bioengineering graduate students and Professor Dan Fletcher have published new research on actin networks in the science journal Nature. Ovijit Chaudhuri and Sapun Parekh are lead authors on the paper “Reversible stress softening of actin networks”, published January 18, 2007.
Read MoreIn Memory of Dean Newton
January 4, 2007 We are deeply saddened that UC Berkeley College of Engineering Dean A. Richard Newton passed away January 2, 2007, from pancreatic cancer. Newton was a visionary leader, a dynamic force for change and growth in the college, a pioneer in integrated circuit design, and a staunch friend of the Bioengineering Department. He…
Read MoreBioE students tour new building
December 1, 2006 A small group of Bioengineering undergrads got a sneak peek at the new Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Building in November.
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