BioE News

June 2007 Berkeley/UCSF Bioengineers did well at the 8th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, held June 15-17 at UC San Francisco. Bioengineering undergrad Amit Jain and graduate student Theresa Ulrich took the Best Poster award at the conference, while BioE undergrad Albert Mach took the 2nd place poster award for his work with graduate student…

May 2007 Bioengineering Professors Adam Arkin and Jay Keasling have been elected Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology.

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.

April 19, 2007 Bioengineering undergrad Albert Mach received the Best Verbal Presentation award in today’s College of Engineering Undergraduate Spring Poster Session.

February 12, 2007 A large animal study has given further support to bioengineering and mechanical engineering professor Boris Rubinsky’s irreversible electroporation technique.

February 9, 2007 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was profiled in the February 9, 2007 issue of Science magazine.

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…

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.

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…