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Bissell Honored with Medals from Two Societies for Outstanding Achievements
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is honoring Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist in the Biological Systems & Engineering Division, for her lifetime contributions to cell biology. In recognition of her key discovery that the role of the tumor microenvironment plays a part in the development of breast cancer, Bissell will receive their highest scientific honor, the E.B. Wilson Medal, at the ASCB Annual Meeting in San Francisco this December. This latest accolade comes just months after Bissell received the 2015 STS/CSS Honorary Medal from the Signal Transduction Society (STS) and the STS Journal Cell Communication and Signaling (CSS) in…
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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk Visits JBEI
The Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI) welcomed the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on June 4. Premier Palaszczuk visited the Bay Area with a contingent of almost 100 Queensland business, industry and community leaders who attended the BIO 2016 conference in San Francisco. During the visit to JBEI, Premier Palaszczuk was given an overview by JBEI’s CEO Jay Keasling on the institute’s mission and achievements which was followed by presentations on the collaborative projects between the University of Queensland, JBEI and the DOE Joint Genome Institute. Blake Simmons, JBEI’s Chief Science and Technology Officer and Axel Visel, Interim Director of the DOE…
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JBEI Participated at Science Day Organized by CRS
JBEI’s Danny Tang volunteered on June 1 at the Science Day organized by the Community Resources for Science at a local Oakland elementary school. Danny partnered with Howard Matis, a Berkeley Lab Physicist to run an experiment about cosmic rays which involved custom built detectors. Danny and Howard saw three elementary classes and interacted with 90 students! The organizer of this event, Community Resources for Science, is a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting and engaging educators, students, and scientists in a vibrant and innovative web of science learning resources, transforming science education.
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JBEI participated at “Dinner with a Scientist”
JBEI’s Sarah LaFrance volunteered this week at “Dinner with a Scientist” organized by the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). Since 2009, OUSD has been hosting “Dinner with a Scientist” in order to bring together local scientists, teachers, and students to celebrate science. Sarah interacted with 4th and 5th graders from OUSD to explain how plants can be turned into biofuels and why JBEI is developing alternative energy sources. She brought an Arabidopsis specimen to the event, which is used as a model plant in JBEI’s research, and each student got to take an Arabidopsis seedling home. Sarah answered many questions…
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JBEI Scientists Unravel Omics Data Using Systems Biology-Based Workflow To Improve Biofuels Productivity
The development of omics technologies, such as metabolomics and proteomics, and systems biology have dramatically enhanced our ability to understand biological phenomena. Nevertheless the interpretation of large omics data into meaningful ‘knowledge’ as well as the understanding of complex metabolic interactions in engineered microbes remains challenging. Biological Systems & Engineering Division researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and led by principal investigator Taek Soon Lee, have developed a workflow that integrates various omics data and genome-scale models to study the effects of biofuel production in a microbial host.…
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