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News & Events
Scientists generate electricity from viruses
Seung-Wuk Lee and his research team have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. The milestone could lead to tiny devices that harvest electrical energy from the vibrations of everyday tasks. It also points to a simpler way to make microelectronic devices. That’s because the viruses arrange themselves into an orderly film that enables the generator to work. Self-assembly is a much sought after goal in nanotechnology. More >
From soil microbe to super-efficient biofuel factory?
Chris Chang and his research colleagues are exploring whether a common soil bacterium can be engineered to produce liquid transportation fuels much more efficiently than the ways in which advanced biofuels are made today. The process would be powered only by hydrogen and electricity. The goal is a biofuel – or electrofuel, as this new approach is called – that doesn’t require photosynthesis.de unprecedented direct observations of physical, chemical and biological phenomena that take place in liquids on the nanometer scale.
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First atomic-scale real-time movies of platinum nanocrystal growth in liquids
Paul Alivisatos' research group has developed a technique for encapsulating liquids of nanocrystals between layers of graphene so that chemical reactions in the liquids can be imaged with an electron microscope. With this technique, movies can be made that provide unprecedented direct observations of physical, chemical and biological phenomena that take place in liquids on the nanometer scale.
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Marqusee lauded for protein-folding research and 'encouragement of the next generation' of scientists
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has named Susan Marqusee, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, the winner of the society’s William C. Rose Award.
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Noteworthy
*Seq I Workshop
On Saturday, June 30, QB3-Berkeley and CCB will host *Seq I, a workshop on how to process and analyze RNA Seq data using the free, open-source software packages Cufflinks and eXpress. Register here.
Dueber wins Early Career Award
John Dueber, assistant professor of bioengineering, has received a 2012 DOE Early Career Award for his work on engineering microbes to produce liquid transportation fuels from plant biomass. More>
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