Eva Nogales’ life and research work was highlighted in the PNAS Profile of August 12. The profile, written in recognition of her election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, accompanied the PNAS Inaugural Article of Nogales, a faculty structural biologist in the Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division. In this article, titled “Near-atomic cryo-EM structure of PRC1 bound to the microtubule,” she uses cryo-EM to visualize, at a near-atomic level, how an essential component of the mitotic spindle maintains critical contact with microtubules to aid cell division.
Maxon Presents to Cellular Agriculture Pioneers
On July 14, Biosciences Principal Deputy Mary Maxon participated in the invitation-only Cellular Agriculture Innovators’ Workshop of New Harvest, a non-profit research institute with the mission of building and establishing the field of cellular agriculture. Maxon presented on public-private partnerships and pre-competitive collaborations for the advancement of the field, specifically looking at government programs that could assist in moving it forward.
Biosciences Technology Among R&D 100 Award Finalists
A technology developed by Diane Bryant and Simon Morton, of the Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division, has been named a 2016 R&D 100 Award finalist. The Compact Dynamic Beamstop (CDBS), a compact, customizable tool for X-ray scattering experiments providing real-time data, is one of seven Berkeley Lab technologies plus one multi-lab nomination including the Lab that made the list of finalists.
Widely recognized in industry, government, and academia as a mark of excellence for the most innovative ideas of the year, the R&D 100 Awards are the only industry-wide competition rewarding the practical applications of science. They recognize the most promising new products, processes, materials, or software developed throughout the world and introduced to the market the previous year. This year’s 100 award winners will be announced in November.
How Does a Bird Know What’s Coming Next?
Bengalese finches, songbirds that have been used to research the learning, perception, and production of bird song, are the model system used by Berkeley Lab scientist Kristofer Bouchard and Michael Brainard of UC San Francisco to determine the relationship between song sequence structure and brain activity. As reported in their PNAS article published last week, “Auditory-induced neural dynamics in sensory-motor circuitry predict learned temporal and sequential statistics of birdsong,” the researchers studied how the birds brain forms predictions for the timing and identity of specific “syllables” that it has learned to sing.
Maxon Leads Advanced Biosciences for Manufacturing Panel
On July 28, Biosciences Principal Deputy Mary Maxon moderated a panel of National Lab and industry speakers who discussed “Advanced Biosciences for Manufacturing: Driving Solutions in Energy, Health and the Environment.” The Capitol Hill event was sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in conjunction with the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and the House of Representatives Manufacturing Caucus. Over 100 congressional staffers attended the briefing and asked a broad variety of questions, including those focused on what Congress could do to drive biomanufacturing in the U.S. The program and panel presentations (part 1 and part 2) are posted on the House Manufacturing Caucus website, along with information about other caucus events.
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