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 May 16, 2013 - Chang wins Dreyfus, 3M awards
Michelle Chang has won two young faculty awards – a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and a 3M Non- tenured Faculty Award. More >
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 May 9, 2013 - Clark tapped to be next College of Chemistry Dean
Douglas Clark, the current chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering, has been designated the new dean of the College of Chemistry. More >
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 Spring 2013 - Lydia Sohn: Physicist, biologist, whistleblower
Lydia Sohn’s constant optimism and eagerness belie the challenges she has encountered—not only as the primary whistleblower in a scandal involving fabrication of data, but also through her decisions to constantly shift fields of study. More >
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 April 23, 2013 - Vik Bajaj wins NMR prize
The International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) will award the first Anatole Abragam Prize to Vikram Bajaj, a researcher in the Alex Pines lab, during the opening session of the ISMAR Congress in Rio de Janeiro in May. The Abragam Prize is awarded every three years to an outstanding young scientist in the field of magnetic resonance. More >
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 April 18, 2013 - Keasling wins BIO’s George Washington Carver Award
Jay Keasling is the recipient of the 2013 George Washington Carver Award for innovation in industrial biotechnology. The award is presented annually by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). More >
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 April 10, 2013 - Beyond genomics - Mining the proteome
Amy Herr is on the front lines of proteomics research. Supported by the Bakar Fellows Program, which funds innovative research by early career Berkeley faculty with a special focus on projects that hold commercial promise, she is focused on developing a more quantitative strategy to assay changes in proteins. This strategy could launch a new generation of diagnostics based on a precise understanding of proteins' roles in both normal and diseased tissue.
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 March 18, 2013 - Johnson receives Distinguished Teaching Award
Terry Johnson has been selected as a recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching. The award recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact. More >
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 February 27, 2013 - Alber & Doudna honored
Tom Alber and Jennifer Doudna have received Protein Society awards – Alber, the 2013 Christian B. Anfinsen Award, for his foundational studies of the structure/function relationship of proteins and Doudna, the 2013 Hans Neurath Award, for her pioneering research into the functions of RNA molecules in cellular mechanisms. More >
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 February 5, 2013 - Michael Rape wins Vilcek Prize
Michael Rape has been awarded the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. The prize honors young immigrants who have demonstrated outstanding early achievements in biomedical science, and is accompanied by a $35,000 prize. More >
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 December 13, 2012 - Carlos Bustamante: Re-creating life in the lab
"The work of a scientist can be a bit of a random walk. We are always moving in some general direction, but we need to allow for turns of events, to be able to react when suddenly an opportunity appears," says Carlos Bustamante, who is best known for his work in the single-molecule field, using optical and magnetic tweezers to manipulate molecules such as DNA and proteins, one at a time, and measure the forces they generate. More >
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 December 4, 2012 - Kumar winner of Young Investigator Award
Sanjay Kumar has been named the winner of the Young Investigator Award by the journal STEM CELLS for leading research into the microenvironmental regulation of neural stem cells. More >
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 November 29, 2012 - Williams named AAAS Fellow
Evan Williams, professor of chemistry, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). More >
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 October 18, 2012 - Bertozzi recognized
Carolyn Bertozzi has been awarded the 2012 Heinrich Wieland Prize for her work on the biological functions of cellular sugars, including the sugar modifications associated with cancer, inflammation, and infection. More >
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 September 17, 2012 - Klinman honored
Judith Klinman has received the 2012 A.I. Scott Medal for Excellence in Biological Chemistry Research for her research into the fundamental properties that underlie enzyme catalysis. More >
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September 12, 2012 - Keasling wins Heinz award
Jay Keasling, a leading authority on synthetic biology who has engineered microbial factories to make an antimalarial drug and biofuel substitutes for petroleum-based fuels, has won a 2012 Heinz Award. More >
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 September 11, 2012 - New 'energy incentive' links kilowatt usage with the bottom line
The new campus Energy Incentive Program aims to motivate building occupants to bring down electricity usage as well as shrink our carbon footprint. More >
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 September 10, 2012 - Carlos Bustamante gets Sackler Prize
Tel Aviv University has announced that the 2012 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics has been awarded to Carlos Bustamante for his seminal contributions to single molecule biophysics. More >
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September 7, 2012 - Michelle Chang wins DARPA Young Faculty Award
Michelle Chang has won a Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The award is for $300,000 over two years. Chang's winning research proposal is "Synthetic Biology Approaches to Cellular Nanomaterials." More >
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 August 1, 2012 - Energy Biosciences Institute begins move into new Berkeley home
Almost five years into its 10-year program to develop new energy alternatives using biological tools and methods, the Energy Biosciences Institute is moving its UC Berkeley headquarters and research labs into a modern new building. The western branch of the $500 million public-private collaboration will be housed in a five-story, 113,000-gross-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility. More >
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 August 1, 2012 - TB drug challenge illuminated
Research by the Alber lab unravels how the tuberculosis bacterium regulates protein acetylation in response to environmental stimuli such as low oxygen. More >
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 June 16, 2012 - Chang award winner
Christopher Chang has been awarded the 2012 Chemistry of Transition Metals Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry for his contributions to the applications of transition metals in molecular imaging and neurochemistry. More >
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 June 15, 2012 - Herr honored
Amy Herr is the recipient of the Analytical Chemistry 2012 Young Innovator Award, recognizing her contributions to the field of micro- or nanofluidics. Her research interests include use of scale-dependent phenomena to develop new tools for quantifying biomolecules in complex biological fluids. More >
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 June 14, 2012 - Zhang named Pew Scholar
Wenjun Zhang has been named a 2012 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences for her research involving engineering microbes to produce drugs and biofuels. More >
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June 6, 2012 - Keasling recognized
Jay Keasling has won the 2012 International Metabolic Engineering Award for his seminal contributions to the metabolic engineering of microorganisms for production of antimalarial drug artemisinin and advanced biofuels. More >
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 May 11, 2012 - 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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 May 1, 2012 - Clarke elected to NAS
John Clarke, professor of physics and a pioneer in the development of ultra-sensitive detectors of magnetic fields, was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. More >
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 April 17, 2012 - Berger elected to AAAS
James Berger, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology and an expert on biomolecular machines, is among 220 new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More >
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 March 5, 2012 - Newton Memorial Lecture
Jack Newman, co-founder and chief science officer of Amyris, will discuss the challenges of extending the successful development of synthetic biological compounds into more commercially viable yields in this year's A. Richard Newton Memorial Lecture in Synthetic Biology. The lecture is sponsored by the Synthetic Biology Institute and QB3. More >
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 February 15, 2012 - Bustamante wins Vilcek Prize
Carlos Bustamante was named the recipient of the 2012 Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Science. The prize honors foreign-born scholars with a lifetime record of achievement and innovation. More >
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 February 9, 2012 - Know thy safety czar
Thom Opal, QB3 safety specialist, talks about compliance with EH&S regulations at our incubators, and the goal of making sure his job stays drama-free. More >
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 January 12, 2012 - Alivisatos wins Wolf Prize
Paul Alivisatos has won the prestigious Wolf Foun-
dation Prize in Chemistry for 2012 for his work in nanochemistry. More >
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