Sentences with phrase «berkeley lab group»

A major collaborator of this center will be Zhiping Weng, professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, who will use computational methods to help determine the best genomic sequences for the Berkeley Lab group to experimentally characterize.

In 2016, another Berkeley Lab group found a potential new biomarker for early stages of tumor development in a wide variety of cancers.

Not exact matches

By 1985, Blackburn, who had started her own lab at UC Berkeley, and Carol Greider, a grad student in Blackburn's group, had discovered telomerase, an enzyme that synthesizes and preserves telomeric DNA.

This study gets us closer to understanding the complex food webs that are vital in nutrient dynamics and overall soil fertility,» said study first author Tami Swenson, a scientific engineering associate in Northen's group within the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area's Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division.

Gazzaley oversees the work of a number of grad students, research assistants, and undergrads on his project, and he has already organized his team into a minilab within the larger UC Berkeley group, says D'Esposito: «He's basically functioning like a faculty person within my lab.»

Led by former UCSF postdoctoral fellow Dai Horiuchi, PhD, now assistant professor of pharmacology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, the group searched for synthetic lethal partners of MYC using a clever experimental system developed in collaboration with Paul Yaswen, PhD, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

But how to control the shape is related to how you passivate a surface during the growth process, and exactly how ligands passivate the surface [and how electronic structures happen] has never been well understood,» adds Lin - Wang Wang, senior staff scientist at Berkeley Lab and leader of Berkeley Lab's Computational Material Science and Nano Science Group.

Kevin Lesko, who oversees SURF operations and leads the Dark Matter Research Group at Berkeley Lab, said, «It's good to see that the experiments installed in SURF continue to produce world - leading results.»

Another research group at Berkeley Lab is tackling this challenge by focusing on a specific component in a photovoltaic - electrochemical system.

Scientists in Berkeley Lab's Heat Island Group, in collaboration with the UC Pavement Research Center (UCPRC), the University of Southern California (USC), and thinkstep Inc., conducted life cycle assessments of conventional and cool pavements.

Chemist Alexander Laskin led the team at PNNL and chemical scientist Mary Gilles led the group at the Berkeley Lab.

Software algorithms developed by Sauter, Paul Adams (also of the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division at Berkeley Lab), and their respective groups were then used to translate the diffraction readings into the 3 - D rendering of photosystem II.

The map, unprecedented in its size and scope, will allow scientists to test theories of dark energy, the mysterious force that appears to cause the accelerating expansion and stretching of the universe first discovered in observations of supernovae by groups led by Saul Perlmutter at Berkeley Lab and by Brian Schmidt, now at Australian National University, and Adam Riess, now at Johns Hopkins University.

Brodie, deputy director of Berkeley Lab's Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, and his group used what they knew about the lifestyles of these soil bacteria to develop specialized microbial growth media to cultivate hundreds of different bacterial species.

We have close collaborations with colleagues at the Rutgers Sea Level Lab, the Princeton Science, Technology & Environmental Policy program, the Harvard Sea Level Dynamics group, and the Berkeley Global Policy Lab.

We and our partners in the Climate Impact Lab (a collaboration between scientists and economists at Rutgers, Berkeley, University of Chicago, and Rhodium Group) are working to address this limitations.

Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Data Group is conducting new experiments to address common data needs in nuclear medicine, nuclear energy and fusion R&D, security, and counterproliferation work.

The film takes place mostly in a Berkeley lab where a group of young medical researchers are developing an experimental new serum designed to prolong the neural activity of coma patients.

«Our IRMOF -74-III compounds feature different groups in the pore interior, including methyl, aromatic, primary and secondary amines, that can be covalently functionalized with primary amines and used for the selective capture of carbon dioxide in 65 - percent relative humidity,» said Yaghi, who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's chemistry department.

The Electricity Markets & Policy Group at Berkeley Lab is online at emp.lbl.gov, and can be followed on Twitter at @BerkeleyLabEMP.

While they will continue to work with research teams within Berkeley Lab, the ETA team is also starting projects with groups and companies outside the Lab.

Wind energy pricing remains attractive to utility and commercial purchasers, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by the Electricity Markets & Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

It was developed by a group of researchers that includes scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

A group of researchers that includes scientists from Berkeley Lab have developed a new way to explore the little - known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world's soils and about twice as much as is in the atmosphere.

Gary Moore, a chemist and principal investigator with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division, led an efficiency analysis study of a unique photocathode material he and his research group have developed for catalyzing the production of hydrogen fuel from sunlight.

The China Energy Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) participated in the two - day U.S. - China Climate Leaders Summit in Los Angeles this week.

The rest of the Fifth Assessment Report, from Working Groups II and III, which also include contributions from several other Berkeley Lab scientists, will be released next spring.

Substantial research over the years from Berkeley Lab's Heat Island Group has found that reflective roofs and walls can cool buildings and cars.

He started his career at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab in the 1950s as a physicist in the Nobel Prize - winning particle physics group of Luis Alvarez.

Co-author Hashem Akbari emphasizes that cool roofs and pavements are only a part of the solution: «Two years worth of emissions is huge, but compared to what we need to do, it's just a dent in the problem,» says Akbari, the former head of the Berkeley Lab Heat Island Group and now Hydro - Quebec Industrial Research Professor at Concordia University in Montreal.

The Berkeley administration formed a working group to develop the strategy for the ICO, which includes specialists from IT - startups Neighborly, UC Berkeley Blockchain Lab.

The subsequent studies that they conducted in our labs (some with colleagues Laura Carstensen, with Lynn Katz, with Sybil Carrere, and with Neil Jacobson) eventually spanned the entire life course (from a study following newlyweds through the transition to parenthood, through a study of two groups of couples at Berkeley in the Levenson lab on the transition through retirement; the old couples» study involved following couples for 20 years — in Levenson's Berkeley lab).