Bioengineering News
October 12, 2006 A research team including Bioengineering professor Dan Fletcher has created a the first model for studying how breast tissue is shaped and structured during development.
September 2006 Ian Holmes’ work on applying theories about grammar and syntax to the genetic data emerging from DNA sequencing efforts is featured in the September 2006 issue of Lab Notes.
September 1, 2006 Bioengineering Professor Song Li and graduate student Craig Hashi are featured in the September 1 edition of Engineering News, describing nanografts, their tissue engineered blood vessel grafts. Read the full story in Engineering News .
August 28, 2006 – A story in the Daily Californian highlights BioE and EECS Professor Shankar Sastry’s research on real-time wireless data monitoring.
August 3, 2006 – The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $16 million grant to establish SynBERC, the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, headed by Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling.
August 2006 Professor Tom Budinger and Berkeley Lab collaborator Jonathan Maltz received the best paper of 2005 award from Journal of Physiological Measurement.
July 16, 2006 Bioengineering professor Luke Lee tells the story of his youth as a recent Korean immigrant in Colorado in a story in the Colorado Springs Gazette this month.
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.
May 5, 2006 Bioengineering and Materials Science Professor Kevin Healy spoke today as part of the CITRIS Friday Research Exchange, describing his research on Controlling Stem Cell Fate Via Bio-mimetic Polymers. Video of the lecture is archived online at CITRIS.
April 26, 2006 Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee published the first full description of his groundbreaking artificial compound eye this week in Science.
April 26, 2006 Bioengineering undergrads continued their dominance of the semiannual undergraduate poster session with Mike Kurylo winning the prize for best content at the Spring 2006 Undergraduate Science & Engineering Poster Session.
April 12, 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling and his lab group have cleared another hurdle in their quest for an economical way to synthesize malaria drugs.
April 12, 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling and his lab group have cleared another hurdle in their quest for an economical way to synthesize malaria drugs.
April 5, 2006 We are pleased to announce the much-anticipated publication of a new book by one of our own! Ethics of Emerging Technologies: Scientific Facts and Moral Challenges, by Dr.’s Thomas and Miriam Budinger, is a comprehensive inquiry into the ethical issues presented by modern technologies.
April 2006 Sanjay Kumar, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has received a 2006 Beckman Young Investigators Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
April 2006 Graduating BioE senior Elizabeth Hua-Mei Kellogg was named recipient of the 2006 Departmental Citation in Bioengineering.
Spring 2006 Recent Bioengineering alumnus Yick Lee published an article on brain aneurysms in the Spring 2006 issue of California Engineer, a student journal of the UC engineering colleges.