Bioengineering News
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…
December 1, 2006 A small group of Bioengineering undergrads got a sneak peek at the new Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Building in November.
November 27, 2006 Bioenginering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was featured on the Dr. Dean Edell segment on ABC-7 news, discussing his project to affordably synthesize a malaria drug using synthetic biology. Watch the broadcast at ABC News (Windows Media Player required).
November 15, 2006 Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, has been named the first Discover Magazine Scientist of the Year.
November 14, 2006 Berkeley Bioengineering continued our winning streak in the College of Engineering undergraduate poster session with Joanna Lee taking the prize for Best Oral Presentation in the Fall 2006 competition today.
November 3, 2006 Bioengineering professor Steve Conolly talks about why he came to Berkeley in Engineering News this week.
November 2006 Berkeley Bioengineering Professors Jay Keasling and Luke Lee were among the 12 local scientist featured in a “Freaking Brilliant” article in the November issue of San Francisco magazine. Also featured in the article were members of the Bioengineering Graduate Group Hami Kazerooni and Chris Voigt.
November 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was featured in the November/December issue of California, the UC Berkeley alumni association magazine.
October 31, 2006 Dr. Dick Karp, Berkeley Professor of Bioengineer, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Mathematics, and Industrial Engineering was quoted in the New York Times today on the future impact of computing.
October 27, 2006 Bioengineering Freshman Demetrius Camarillo was featured in the October 27 issue of Engineering News as part of an article on the new “Engineering and Project-Based Learning” E 39E course.
October 23, 2006 When stretched, a type of adult stem cell taken from bone marrow can be nudged towards becoming the type of tissue found in blood vessels, according to a new study by bioengineers from Bioengineering Professor Song Li’s tissue engineering lab at UC Berkeley.
October 23, 2006 – Bioengineering Professor Irina Conboy spoke to the news media in October as a member of a faculty panel on stem cell research.
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!