Bioengineering News
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.
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.