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The report on the multi-institutional Neuro-Workshop held June 2, 2016 at Berkeley Lab (LBNL) is now available. The workshop was convened to discuss relevant technological capabilities for the national Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Participants also explored collaborative opportunities that would address neuroscience “grand challenges” in support of the Department of Energy (DOE) contribution to BRAIN and other national scientific challenges.

Eva Nogales, a faculty structural biologist in the Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division, has been named 2016 Porter Lecturer by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). The lecture is named in memory of Keith R. Porter, a pioneer in the use of electron microscopy in biology and one of the founders of ASCB, and is bestowed upon an eminent cell biologist each year at the ASCB Annual Meeting. Nogales will present the lecture on December 4 at ASCB 2016 in San Francisco, which will focus on the latest discoveries in the field, including CRISPR, and on building links from fundamental research to clinical issues.

In celebration of Nogales and Mina Bissell, a distinguished scientist in the Biological Systems & Engineering Division and awardee of the society’s 2016 E.B. Wilson Medal, the ASCB will host a dinner at the annual meeting in honor of these two accomplished Biosciences researchers.

JBEI is featured in the new edition of “Biotechnology: Science for the New Millennium, 2017”, a biotech textbook and lab manual, first released in January 2006. The age independent curriculum has been distributed across the country and the 2006 and 2012 editions of BS4NM are being used at over 1200 high schools and over 300 colleges.
The feature was the result of a collaboration during the summer of 2015 between JBEI’s scientists and the curriculum’s author Ellyn Daugherty, a 34 year veteran biology educator. JBEI’s research and bioenergy themes were covered in several chapters of the textbook and lab manual.

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.

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 … Read more »