Bioengineering News
February 9, 2006 Steve Conolly, Associate Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, was selected to deliver one of the Lillian M. Gilbreth Lectures for Young Engineers at the 2006 meeting of the National Academy of Engineering in Irvine, California.
February 7, 2006 Viruses can be forced to evolve in ways beneficial to humans, according to new research by David Schaffer, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group.
February 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling and collaborators have developed a technique to guide the evolution of certain proteins toward a desired outcome.
February 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling and collaborators have developed a technique to guide the evolution of certain proteins toward a desired outcome.
January 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling’s work in synthetic biology is featured in a New York Times article on the emerging field.
January 2006 Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling traveled to Davos, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum January 25-29. Amyris Biotechnologies, co-founded by Keasling, was one of 36 start-up companies chosen as technology visionaries – companies whose products could change the world.
December 27, 2005 Researchers in Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher’s laboratory have gained new insight into how cells move and grow. Dr. Daniel Fletcher, bioengineering graduate students Sapun Parekh and Ovijit Chaudhuri, and Julie Theriot of Stanford University published their findings in the Dec. 2005 issue ofNature Cell Biology.
December 2005 UC Berkeley students competed in the 2005 intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine, or iGEM, competition. Nine teams fielded by universities and colleges from San Francisco to Zurich spent their summers engineering bacteria to accomplish a specific task using modified DNA components called BioBricks.
November 18, 2005 A review article by bioengineering Associate Professor Luke Lee was featured on the cover of the journal Science today. The featured image is of an artificial compound eye created in Lee’s lab at UC Berkeley, inspired by compound eyes found in nature and microfabricated in three dimensions in polymer resin.
November 16, 2005 Fletcher Lab undergrads continued their domination of the semi-annual undergraduate poster session with Joanna Lee winning the content prize in the Fall 2005 Engineering, Science & Natural Resources Poster Session.
November 2005 Our newest bioengineering professor, Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee, just received one of the first-ever Nano 50 Awards from Nanotech Briefs journal. This award recognizes the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted – or are expected to impact – the state of the art in nanotechnology.
November 1, 2005 Bioengineering Professor Teresa Head-Gordon is one of four researchers across the country to be selected as a principal investigator for the new “cyber-enabled chemistry” grants from the National Science Foundation.
October 2005 Bioengineering Professors Irina Conboy and Kevin Healy are featured in this month’s Lab Notes, research news from the College of Engineering. The article profiles their collaboration with David Schaffer of chemical engineering to develop injectable materials for delivering stem cells to the body. They plan to use the stem-cell seeded hydrogel to protect…
October 2005 Bioengineering graduate students from Professor Luke Lee’s research group garnered a collection of high-profile honors at the Ninth International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS), held in Boston from October 9th to 13th.
September 23, 2005 Joshua Shaevitz, Miller Research Fellow in Integrated Biology and member of Professor Dan Fletcher’s laboratory, is lead author on a paper describing the twirly way Spiroplasma bacteria get around.
September 8, 2005 A review article co-authored by bioengineering professor Irina Conboy was published in the September 8, 2005 issue of Cell, one of the most respected journals of biology.
September 2005 Senior ME major Allison Deppe spent the summer doing research with bioengineering professor Mohammad Mofrad through the Berkeley Summer Bioengineering Research Program. Now she’s off to the 2005 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) fall meeting to present the results of her research.
September 2005 Dr. Thomas Budinger was recently elected President of the Society of Molecular Imaging.
August 2005 Dr. Stanley Berger, Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed to the Montford G. Cook Endowed Chair in Engineering.
July 29, 2005 Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Adam Arkin and David Schaffer, assistant Professor of Chemistry and member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group, reported on a novel strategy for taming HIV infections on July 29 in the journal Cell.
July 2005 Congratulations to Dr. Budinger! His team just won the Bronze Medal for the Men’s 8 category at the 2005 USRowing Southwest Regional Masters Championships. The race took place at Lake Merritt on July 10. Way to row Dr. B!
June 2005 Dr. Irina Conboy, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Faculty Research Fund for the Biological Sciences. The funds will go to support her research project,establishing a Dedicated Mouse Colony for Testing the Regenerative Capacity of hES Cells in vivo.
June 2005 Dr. Mohammad Mofrad, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has been awarded a Regent’s Junior Faculty Fellowship for the summer of 2005.
May 2005 Menzies Chen, Bioengineering alumnus and researcher in the Fletcher Lab, has been awarded one of five UC Berkeley Sustainability Awards.
May 2005 Local biotech company Plexxikon hosted eleven Berkeley students on May 5 for a full tour, lecture on drug development, and visits with company executives. The students are all participants in the Berkeley Summer Bioengineering Research Program or the QB3 Undergraduate Research Biotech Internship Program.