BioE News

July 5, 2006  Bioengineering professor Adam Arkin and colleagues have determined the life cycle of operons, small groups of genes with related functions that are co-transcribed in a single strand of messenger RNA.

June 26, 2006 Research by Bioengineering Professor Teresa Head-Gordon is helping to quiet a controversy over the structure of water.

June 15, 2006 Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, appeared on a panel discussion today on CNN’s Future Summit special feature.

June 2006 Dr. Tom Budinger, UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering and UCSF Professor of Radiology, was elected to the Council of the National Academy of Engineering this June.

May 31, 2006 Congratulations 2006 graduates! Check out our commencement photos at our Kodak EasyShare gallery . You can use this site to view and print photos.Congratulations!

May 25, 2006 Dr. Theodore E. Cohn, Professor of Bioengineering and Vision Science, passed away on May 25 at Alta Bates Hospital in Oakland following a three-year battle with lymphoma. He was 64.

May 16, 2006 Bioengineering professor Adam Arkin and his wife Debra Safer are the proud new parents of a baby girl. Zoe Alexa Safer Arkin was born at 12:42pm, May 16, 2006. The entire family is doing well. Congratulations!

May 9, 2006 – Bioengineering Graduate Group member and UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry Richard Mathies and BioE graduate student Robert Blazej have developed the smallest ever DNA sequencing device, only 10cm in diameter. The handheld sequencer needs just one femtomole of DNA and only a tiny amount of expensive chemical reagents to combine three…

May 9, 2006 Bioengineering graduate student Philip Lee and his team won third place in the annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition.