Jennifer Doudna, faculty scientist in the Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division, will share the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Feng Zhang. They were honored “for the development of CRISPR/Cas9 as a breakthrough genome editing platform that promises to revolutionize biomedical research and disease treatment.” The awards, announced over the weekend in Taipei by Nobel laureate Y. T. Lee, each come with a cash prize of $1.24 million, in addition to funds for research. Read more at Berkeley NewsCenter.
Understanding the Key to Henipavirus Infection
In 1994, a virus emerged in Hendra, Australia, causing respiratory and neurological diseases. It was transmissible from horses to humans, with a mortality rate of 57% in humans and 89% in horses. Since then 2 additional deadly species have emerged in Malaysia and Africa, with evidence of 19 more. The members of this Paramyxoviridae family infect host cells through the fusion protein, F, which is embedded in the viral particle membrane. The bulk of the F protein, the ectodomain, protrudes from the membrane’s surface and undergoes a dramatic refolding to merge the virus and host membranes. At the Advanced Light Source (ALS) Beamline 8.2.2 in the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology, researchers used macromolecular crystallography to study the structure of the Hendra F protein ectodomain in its prefusion form and gain insight into its function. Read the ALS Science Brief.
Berkeley Lab Marks LGBT Pride Month
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month is celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. The Stonewall riots were a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. As part of Pride Month, Berkeley Lab profiled scientists in the Biosciences and Computing Sciences Areas. One of the three to share their stories is Andrew Hagen, a postdoc in Cheryl Kerfeld’s group in the Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division who was also a former graduate student with Jay Keasling at the Joint BioEnergy Institute. Read his about his experiences, along with those of Deb Agarwal and Elijah Goodfriend, on the Berkeley Lab Diversity & Inclusion website.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk Visits JBEI
The Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI) welcomed the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on June 4. Premier Palaszczuk visited the Bay Area with a contingent of almost 100 Queensland business, industry and community leaders who attended the BIO 2016 conference in San Francisco.
During the visit to JBEI, Premier Palaszczuk was given an overview by JBEI’s CEO Jay Keasling on the institute’s mission and achievements which was followed by presentations on the collaborative projects between the University of Queensland, JBEI and the DOE Joint Genome Institute. Blake Simmons, JBEI’s Chief Science and Technology Officer and Axel Visel, Interim Director of the DOE Joint Genome Institute gave presentations on the current collaborations with the University of Queensland.
JBEI Participated at Science Day Organized by CRS
JBEI’s Danny Tang volunteered on June 1 at the Science Day organized by the Community Resources for Science at a local Oakland elementary school. Danny partnered with Howard Matis, a Berkeley Lab Physicist to run an experiment about cosmic rays which involved custom built detectors. Danny and Howard saw three elementary classes and interacted with 90 students!
The organizer of this event, Community Resources for Science, is a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting and engaging educators, students, and scientists in a vibrant and innovative web of science learning resources, transforming science education.
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