(From left) Chris Rosen, Kathleen Bjornstad, Roger Pallares, David Faulkner, and Dahlia An are part of a
research team led by Rebecca Abergel (not pictured), a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division and assistant professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley. By exposing baker’s yeast, aka Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to lanthanide metals, the researchers have uncovered the most complete portrait yet of lanthanides and their potential toxicity. Their findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Photographed outside B70A on Monday, May 25, 2021 in Berkeley, Calif. 05/25/21