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  • JBEI’s Sarah Richardson Honored for Contribution to East Bay Schools

    JBEI’s Sarah Richardson Honored for Contribution to East Bay Schools

    Sarah Richardson is among those who received a “Business Person of the Year” award from the Eden Area Regional Occupation Program. She was honored for work with students in the program’s biotechnology classes and commitment to increasing the awareness of STEM fields among underrepresented students.

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  • Seven Years of Biofuels Research: History of DOE’s BRCs

    Seven Years of Biofuels Research: History of DOE’s BRCs

    JBEI’s Blake Simmons and Kristy Nordahl helped co-author a report on the first seven years of research at the DOE’s three Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs).

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  • Time-Lapse Analysis Offers New Look at How Cells Repair DNA Damage

    Time-Lapse Analysis Offers New Look at How Cells Repair DNA Damage

    Time-lapse imaging can make complicated processes easier to grasp—think of a stitched-together sequence of photos that chronicles the construction of a building. A group of scientists, led by Sylvain Costes of the Biological Systems & Engineering Division, are using a similar approach to study how cells repair DNA damage.

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  • Unlocking the Rice Immune System

    Unlocking the Rice Immune System

    Pam Ronald, a member of the Biological Systems & Engineering Division who directs JBEI’s Grass Genetics program, led a study that identified a bacterial signaling molecule that triggers an immunity response in rice plants, enabling the plants to resist a devastating blight disease.

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