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  • Queensland Minister for State Development Visits JBEI

    The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) welcomed the Queensland Minister for State Development, Hon. Dr. Anthony Linham on September 29. The goal of the visit was to follow up on the discussions initiated with Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk this past June. Minister Lynham’s portfolio includes responsibility for the Biofutures Strategy which Premier Palaszczuk launched in June in San Francisco. During the JBEI visit Queensland’s Biofutures 10-Year Roadmap was discussed as well as the commercialization efforts of bioenergy and biochemicals.

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  • Division Leadership Team Changes in EGSB and BSE

    Division Leadership Team Changes in EGSB and BSE

    The Biosciences Area is pleased to announce that Adam Deutschbauer and Diane Dickel have agreed to take on new leadership positions in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology (EGSB) Division. Deutschbauer, previously the department head of Functional Genomics, is rising to the position of EGSB co-deputy for science, and Dickel will assume the role of […]

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  • Study Finds Potential New Biomarker for Cancer Patient Prognosis

    Study Finds Potential New Biomarker for Cancer Patient Prognosis

    A new study, led by Gary Karpen of the Biological Systems & Engineering (BSE) Division, links the overexpression of 14 genes related to cell division to cancer patients’ prognosis and response to specific treatments. The researchers said the findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, could lead to a new biomarker for the early stages of tumor development. The information obtained could help reduce the use of cancer treatments that have a low probability of helping. The research team included lead author Weiguo Zhang and Jian-Hua Mao of BSE; collaborators Wei zhu and Anshu Jain; and Ke Liu and…

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  • Outside In: The Secret Life of Galectin-1 and its Dual Role in the Breast

    Outside In: The Secret Life of Galectin-1 and its Dual Role in the Breast

    Whenever sugars are mentioned in relation to health and disease, it is in the context of metabolism and gaining calories. However, sugars have many other functions in our physiology and are found on cell surfaces and in extracellular matrix (ECM), forming an integral part of tissue microenvironment. Here they bind to their partner ligands, known as lectins, forming lectin-sugar interactions that have been known to play important roles in physiological and pathological contexts. In an article published and featured on the cover of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) last week, the laboratory of Distinguished Scientist Mina Bissell…

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  • ABPDU Partners with Small Businesses in DOE Pilot

    ABPDU Partners with Small Businesses in DOE Pilot

    Through the second round of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Vouchers Pilot, eight small businesses have been awarded vouchers, totaling $1.1 million, to work with Berkeley Lab to bring their next-generation clean energy to the marketplace faster. The vouchers pay for expertise and use of facilities that help small businesses advance their technologies toward commercialization. Several Biosciences partnerships were established: Mango Materials and Zymochem bioenergy projects were awarded vouchers to work with the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU). Also, a Heliobiosys project will be performed using the capabilities of both the ABPDU and Sandia National Laboratories.…

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