Berkeley Lab and Colorado School of Mines scientists are collaborating on the development of a microbe-based system that could remove toxic compounds from wastewater produced by the oil and gas industries so it can be reused in other water-intensive sectors such as agriculture and energy production. Leading the Berkeley Lab half of the partnership are … Read more »
Epic Research Endeavor Reveals Cause of Deadly Digestive Disease in Children
Berkeley Lab geneticist Len Pennacchio and his team helped a group of Israeli clinical researchers solve the mystery of a rare inherited disease that causes extreme, sometimes fatal, chronic diarrhea in children. The nearly decade-long investigation not only led to the discovery of a novel protein-coding gene that is critical for intestinal function, but also expanded our understanding of regulatory sequences in the human genome. The results were recently published in Nature.
Wenjun Zhang Wins Presidential Early Career Award
Wenjun Zhang, a faculty scientist in Biosciences’ Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley, is among the 2019 winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The prestigious award, established in 1996 and coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President, is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on early-career researchers.
EcoFABs: Fabricated Microbial Ecosystem Models to Advance Microbiome Research
Biosciences’ Trent Northen and Ben Brown, along with collaborators from more than a dozen institutions, co-authored a paper published in Nature Methods that outlines a vision for fabricated model microbial ecosystems (EcoFABs) and their potential impact on microbiome science.
Scientists Hit Pay Dirt with New Microbial Research Technique
In a Nature Communications report, a team of Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area scientists detail the first-ever successful use of a technique called BONCAT to isolate active microbes present in a sample of soil. Working within a Berkeley Lab-led scientific focus area called ENIGMA (for Ecosystems and Networks Integrated with Genes and Molecular Assemblies), Trent Northen’s lab in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) division teamed with JGI researchers on the work.
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