Several Biosciences Area personnel are among the 2024 recipients of Berkeley Lab Director’s Achievement Awards. The program recognizes outstanding contributions by employees to all aspects of Lab activities.
Reducing Food Waste with Traditional Techniques
Former Biosciences postdoctoral researcher and chef Vayu Hill-Maini’s emerging work on Neurospora, a type of fungus, explores a revolutionary approach to addressing food waste through sustainable fermentation practices. Neurospora mold thrives on food waste such as leftover grains, oat milk pulp, and peanut oil pressings, turning them into edible, nutrient-rich food. This fungus, traditionally used … Read more »
Machine Learning Uncovers New Targets for Plant Engineering
Machine learning has a variety of applications in scientific research, from rapidly analyzing datasets to making predictions. At the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), researchers are using machine learning to find new proteins that play a role in plant gene expression — providing the scientific community with new avenues to explore in bioenergy crop engineering.
Making Sustainable Products Faster with AI and Automation
Héctor García Martín, a staff scientist in the Biological and Systems Engineering (BSE) Division, is working to accelerate and refine the synthetic biology landscape by applying artificial intelligence and the mathematical tools he mastered during his training as a physicist.
Using Biology to Make Vaccine Adjuvants More Available
Biosciences Area Senior Faculty Researcher Jay Keasling and his research team have spent the past few decades engineering yeast to be tiny factories that more efficiently produce molecules that are typically found in small supply in nature. Now, they have modified yeast to make the adjuvant QS-21, an important additive to vaccines that stimulates the … Read more »
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