While studying chemical reactions of a gold-containing molecule, Berkeley Lab researchers led by Jim O’Neil in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging (MBIB) division and Dean Toste in the Chemical Sciences division happened upon a chemical mechanism that can be used to form trifluoromethyl (CF3) compounds and attach them to other chemical compounds. Mark Levin, who participated in the study as a UC Berkeley graduate student working with O’Neil at the Biomedical Isotope Facility at Berkeley Lab, was first author on the study published in Science. The discovery could aid in the synthesis of new radiotracers for use with the 3-D medical imaging technology known as positron emission tomography (PET). Read more from the Berkeley Lab News Center.
Mortimer participates at WEF’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions
Jenny Mortimer, Deputy Vice President of the Feedstocks Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and Scientist with the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division, participated at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2017 Annual Meeting of the New Champions alongside business and political leaders. The annual meeting whose overall theme this year was inclusive growth in the fourth industrial revolution took place from June 27-29 in Dalian, China. At the meeting Mortimer participated at a press conference entitled “Young, talented and fighting for science” which can be viewed here.
NIH Awards $9.3M for Further Development of PHENIX Structural Biology Software
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $9.3 million to Berkeley Lab to support ongoing development of PHENIX, a software suite for solving three-dimensional macromolecular structures. Officially launched in 2000, the project is a collaboration among researchers based at Berkeley Lab, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Cambridge University, and Duke University. “The impetus behind PHENIX is a desire to make the computational aspects of crystallography more automated, reducing human error and speeding solutions,” said PHENIX principal investigator Paul Adams, director of Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division (MBIB). Read more from the Berkeley Lab News Center.
Council on Competitiveness Releases Report on Advancing U.S. Bioscience
Biosciences’ ALD Mary Maxon and Chief Science and Technology Officer Jay Keasling recently attended an event in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Council on Competitiveness. The briefing on Capitol Hill marked the release of the council’s report, Leverage: Advancing U.S. Bioscience, which captures the outputs of a day-long discussion last year about infrastructure, technology, investment, and talent needed for advancements in U.S. bioscience.
DOE User Facilities Join Forces to Tackle Biology’s Big Data
Six proposals have been selected to participate in a new partnership between two DOE user facilities at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory through the FICUS initiative. The expertise and capabilities available at JGI and NERSC will help researchers explore the wealth of genomic and metagenomic data generated worldwide through access to supercomputing resources and computational science experts to accelerate discoveries. Read more on the DOE JGI website.
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