Several groups from the ALS hosted a booth at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association in New Orleans at the end of May. Staff from the crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering, and X-ray footprinting beamlines were present, and flyers for infrared and soft X-ray tomography beamlines were also available.
Biotech Partners Recognizes Irina Silva as Exceptional Mentoring Partner
On Wednesday, May 31, Biotech Partners honored Irina Silva, Communications and Outreach Manager for the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), for her outstanding support of their internship program. Last year, Silva served as a mentor partner, organizing development activities and internship opportunities for 7 students at JBEI and the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU).
JBEI’s Vy Ngo Awarded Grace Fimognari Memorial Prize
Vy Ngo, student assistant with JBEI ’s Feedstocks Division, part of the Biological Systems and Engineering (BSE) Division was awarded the Grace Fimognari Memorial Prize during UC Berkeley’s Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB) 2017 Commencement. The Prize established in 1969 is awarded to outstanding graduating senior in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) emphasis of the MCB major. Ngo was mentored by Jenny Mortimer, JBEI’s Director of Plant Systems Biology, initially through Berkeley Lab’s Community College Internship (CCI) program in 2015 and then completed the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program in 2016. She continued to intern at JBEI as she transitioned to UC Berkeley.
Three Biosciences Employees Complete Emergency Medical Technician Basic Training
Three individuals from the Biosciences Area were among a dozen employees to complete Emergency Medical Technician Basic (EMT-B) training to join Berkeley Lab’s volunteer Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT). The training, provided by Protective Services, comprised more than 170 hours of classroom instruction, hands-on demonstrations, ambulance ride-alongs, and testing. Congratulations to Gaby Fuentes-Creollo, Barrier Facility Manager at Biosciences Operations at Berkeley, Christine Ichim, a postdoctoral scholar in Mina Bissell’s lab in Biological Systems & Engineering (BSE), and Hoang N. Pham, a technical affiliate working with Abby Dernburg in BSE.
Thirdhand Smoke Study Gets Renewed Media Attention
Research published earlier this year by Berkeley Lab scientists in Biological Systems and Engineering Division (BSE) showing that exposure to thirdhand smoke was associated with low body weight and immune changes in young mice has recently received a flurry of renewed media attention. Antoine Snijders was interviewed via Skype for a segment that aired on New York’s Fox 5 News. In it, he noted that human infants and toddlers could potentially be at risk of exposure. “They play with toys, they play on carpets, there’s much more hand-to-mouth action than most adults do. So the exposure levels could be significantly higher in that age group,” he said. An article on USAToday.com quoted Bo Hang and Jian-Hua Mao. “We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn’t have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,” Hang said. The study was also referenced on the blog Bustle which linked to the original Berkeley Lab News Center article.
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