BSE News

A hands-on laboratory course at the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) is preparing bioprocess engineering students for careers in the bioeconomy.

Biosciences researchers have established a powerful new method that couples advanced infrared imaging techniques with statistical machine learning models to quickly and non-invasively determine with high accuracy whether an animal was exposed to radiation—even at extremely low doses almost three months post exposure.

Héctor García Martín, a staff scientist in the Biological and Systems Engineering (BSE) Division, is working to accelerate and refine the synthetic biology landscape by applying artificial intelligence and the mathematical tools he mastered during his training as a physicist.

Biosciences Area Senior Faculty Researcher Jay Keasling and his research team have spent the past few decades engineering yeast to be tiny factories that more efficiently produce molecules that are typically found in small supply in nature. Now, they have modified yeast to make the adjuvant QS-21, an important additive to vaccines that stimulates the … Read more »

Abby Dernburg, a senior faculty scientist in the Biological Systems and Engineering (BSE) Division, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in meiosis research.