Apply for QB3-Berkeley’s science writing workshop

Applications are open for QB3-Berkeley’s graduate student and postdoc science writing workshop, Science Writing for the Public: Share Your Research and Connect with Audiences. This three-part workshop will offer participants…

Postdoc Vayu Hill-Maini is working to unlock the richly diverse genomes of fungi to engineer them into one-stop-shop tasty and nutritious meat alternatives. He holds up petri dishes of fungi growing, the right one is engineered, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) in Emergyville, Calif. 03/05/24

It’s Hearty, It’s Meaty, It’s Mold

With animal-free dairy products and convincing vegetarian meat substitutes already on the market, it’s easy to see how biotechnology can change the food industry. Advances in genetic engineering are allowing…

Headshot of Iain Clark outside in front of trees.

Faculty focus on Iain Clark

Iain Clark is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering. The Clark lab’s research combines methods from multiple disciplines—molecular biology, microfluidics, engineering, and bioinformatics—to develop new single-cell genomics tools. The…