Among the benefits of attending the University of California is the chance for undergrads to conduct research alongside world-renowned faculty. Biosciences’ Rasha Anayah and undergraduate student interning at JBEI (Biological Systems & Engineering Division), who is exploring how to build better biofuels, was one of several undergrads who recently spoke at a forum on UC research opportunities. Read more in the UC Newsroom.
New Science Study Provides Further Insight Into Plant Cell Division
Biosciences Postdoctoral Researcher Estelle Schaefer was the lead author of a new study on plant cell division orientation released by Science on April XX. The study developed while Schaefer was affiliated with the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and provides further insight into the actual mechanics of cell division in plants.
One phase of the cell division cycle is called mitosis, which is when replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei. Mitosis occurs in several steps and in plants includes preprophase. Schaefer’s work focused on the preprophase band of microtubules, intracellular structures responsible for various movements within cells, and showed that this band controls the robustness of cell division orientation and consequent plant development.
Since completing her PhD three years ago, Schaefer has worked in the field of cell wall biosynthesis with Henrik Scheller (Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division) at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). She will soon transition to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) where she will work with John Vogel to study the interactions between Brachypodium roots and microbes of the rhizosphere.
The Scientist Profiles Mina Bissell
The April 1 issue of The Scientist magazine profiled Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist at the Biosciences’ Biological Systems and Engineering Division. The article covers Bissell’s pioneering work in cancer research over the period of 40 years and how she was instrumental in researching the field of tumor microenvironments. Read more at The Scientist.
Could This Enzyme Help Turn Biofuel Waste into Something Useful?
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Sandia National Laboratories working at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have resolved the protein structure of the enzyme LigM, which is utilized by the soil bacterium Sphingomonas to metabolize aryl compounds derived from lignin, the stiff, organic material that gives plants their structure. Their work is reported in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more in the Berkeley Lab News Center.
JBEI Paper Awarded ‘Publication of the Year’ by the Journal of Biological Engineering
The 2016 Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) publication “End-to-end automated microfluidic platform for synthetic biology: from design to functional analysis” has been selected as the Journal of Biological Engineering Publication of the Year. Gregory Linshiz, former post-doctoral researcher and Director of Synthetic Biology Informatics Nathan Hillson conceived the project that served as the basis of this research. In the paper the authors present a programmable, multipurpose microfluidic platform and associated software and apply the platform to major steps of the synthetic biology research cycle: design, construction, testing, and analysis. The formal announcement of the award will be made at this year’s Annual Meeting of Institute of Biological Engineering (March 30 – April 1, in Salt Lake City, UT).
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