Sentences with phrase «berkeley lab team»

The Berkeley Lab team felt the time was ripe for doing so.

The Berkeley Lab team has done previous studies establishing the formation of harmful thirdhand smoke constituents by reaction of nicotine with indoor nitrous acid, showing that nicotine can react with ozone to form potentially harmful ultrafine particles, and finding that thirdhand smoke can cause genetic damage in human cells.

says Niranjan Govind, a computational chemist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who collaborated with the Berkeley Lab team on the development of the method in the NWChem computational chemistry program.

The Berkeley Lab team includes Nicola Falco, Craig Ulrich, Baptiste Dafflon, Louise Glass, and Susan Hubbard.

Not exact matches

«The team science approach pioneered at Berkeley Lab is being put to use to integrate all the information within the machine learning context,» said Wainwright.

An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

«While ChIP - seq is very powerful in that it can query an entire genome for characteristics associated with enhancer activity in a single experiment, it can fail to identify some enhancers and identify some sites as being enhancers when they really aren't,» says Diane Dickel, a geneticist with Berkeley Lab's Genomics Division and member of the SIF - seq development team.

It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered an unexpected magnetic property in a two - dimensional material.

Through a combination of high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) and a unique methodology for image analysis, a team of researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has produced an atomic view of microtubules that enabled them to identify the crucial role played by a family of end - binding (EB) proteins in regulating microtubule dynamic instability.

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.»

At last week's meeting of the Entertainment Software and Cognitive Neurotherapeutics Society in San Francisco, Polat's team described tests of the software that Dennis Levi ran in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley.

To make this major upgrade a reality, SLAC has teamed up with four other national labs — Argonne, Berkeley Lab, Fermilab and Jefferson Lab — and Cornell University, with each partner making key contributions to project planning as well as to component design, acquisition and construction.

The method was developed at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, by a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, and other institutions.

Now a research team at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has identified all of the principal oil - degrading bacteria as well as their mechanisms for chewing up the many different components that make up the released crude oil.

An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of materials that make up a lithium - ion battery electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, and how the surface is very different from the rest of the material.

In a pair of recently published papers, a team led by Berkeley Lab researcher Jonathan Ajo - Franklin announced they had successfully combined a technology called «distributed acoustic sensing,» which measures seismic waves using fiber - optic cables, with novel processing techniques to allow reliable seismic monitoring, achieving results comparable to what conventional seismometers can measure.

Working with Berkeley Lab scientist Jill Banfield, a study co-author and also a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the team used newly developed DNA - based methods to identify all of the genomes of the microbes that used the introduced oil for growth along with their specific genes that were responsible for oil degradation.

In this new work, Wang's team refined a probe that makes use of a phenomenon researchers at Berkeley Lab first theoretically outlined 20 years ago: energy loss of a high - energy particle, called a jet, inside the quark gluon plasma.

«International team reconstructs nanoscale virus features from correlations of scattered X-rays: Team uses Berkeley Lab CAMERA's M - TIP algorithm to enable new X-ray science.&rateam reconstructs nanoscale virus features from correlations of scattered X-rays: Team uses Berkeley Lab CAMERA's M - TIP algorithm to enable new X-ray science.&raTeam uses Berkeley Lab CAMERA's M - TIP algorithm to enable new X-ray science.»

As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) contributed key algorithms which helped achieve a goal first proposed more than 40 years ago — using angular correlations of X-ray snapshots from non-crystalline molecules to determine the 3D structure of important biological objects.

The multi-institutional team known as the JET Collaboration, led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab), published their results in a recent issue of Physical Review C.

David Prendergast, a Facility Director at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy National User Facility for Nanoscale Science Research, helped the Texas A&M team design and interpret their calculations, which were experimentally verified in part by Fakra using Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source along with structural data collected at Argonne National Lab's Advanced Photon Source.

Lab safety is now a heightened concern in the contract negotiations currently under way between the University of California and the new union representing the postdocs on its 10 campuses, including UCLA, says UC Berkeley postdoc Matthew «Oki» O'Connor, a member of the union negotiation team.

In a study led by Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, the research team used a unique optical metamaterial with a refractive index of zero to generate «phase mismatch - free nonlinear light,» meaning the generated light waves move through the material gaining strength in all directions.

In collaboration with Dr. Ke Xu's lab at UC Berkeley, the team determined that this is because of aberrant accumulation and distribution of Ankyrin - G in the AIS.

While quantum technologies remain grist for science fiction, a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have taken an important step towards efficient light generation, the foundation for future quantum networks.

The research team also benefited from computational work at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).

Chu said he feels «personally» the anguish of the DUSEL team, led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the DOE lab that Chu directed before coming to DOE in January 2009.

Along with scientists and engineers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, the Berkeley Lab crew made up the so - called «Lab Team,» called in by state officials for their expertise in well integrity and well - flow modeling.

So teams led by Ashby and Olynick, which include Berkeley Lab postdoctoral researcher Prashant Kulshreshtha, investigated two types of resist.

From left, Berkeley Lab's Alvin Lo, Eleanor Blakely, Yurong Huang, Jian - Hua Mao, and Antoine Snijders are part of a team of scientists that uncovered new clues about the risk of cancer from low - dose radiation.

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

By extending the coherence time of electron states to over half a second, a team of scientists from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University has vastly improved the performance of one of the most potent possible sensors of magnetic fields on the nanoscale — a diamond defect no bigger than a pair of atoms, called a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center.

The team also includes members at three national research labs, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and at Hunter College (CUNY), Tennessee Technological University, University of New Mexico and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Together with Persson, Berkeley Lab scientist Gerbrand Ceder, postdoctoral associate Miao Liu, and MIT graduate student Ziqin Rong, the Materials Project team investigated some of the more promising materials in detail for high multivalent ion mobility, which is the most difficult property to achieve in these cathodes.

A team at Berkeley Lab has designed, built, and delivered a unique version of a device, called an injector gun, that can produce a steady stream of these electron bunches.

«We bring a lot of expertise to the LCLS - II collaboration,» said John Corlett, senior team leader for the LCLS - II effort at Berkeley Lab.

Existing methods to determine material stability have been hit and miss, but a Berkeley Lab - led research team has applied a combination of experimental and theoretical tools to rigorously determine how well a material will weather the harsh environments present in these systems.

Researchers from JCESR at Berkeley Lab and Argonne National Lab comprised the team, together with scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and UC Berkeley.

In a study published ahead the week of January 8, 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), report the first results of a long - term plan to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of 300 Aspergillus fungi.

That's why a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology — the Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm — and modified it to run quickly, efficiently and at scale on distributed - memory supercomputers.

Now, a team of researchers led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported that a new lithium - sulfur battery component allows a doubling in capacity compared to a conventional lithium - sulfur battery, even after more than 100 charge cycles at high current densities, which are key performance metrics for their adoption in electric vehicles (EVs) and in aviation.

An international team working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has captured the first high - resolution 3 - D images from individual double - helix DNA segments attached at either end to gold nanoparticles.

The international science team, which included researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, analyzed data from past sky surveys using sophisticated image - recognition technology to home in on the gravity - based effects that identify the shapes of these filaments.

Working with Paul Kent, a computational materials scientist at ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, the team collaborated with researchers at UCLA and Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry to combine world - class experimental data with world - class computing to do something new — simulate magnetism atom by atom in a real nanoparticle.

Defects and jagged surfaces at the edges of nanosized platinum and gold particles are key hot spots for chemical reactivity, a team of researchers working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel confirmed with a unique infrared probe.

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light - activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

Researchers in Berkeley Lab's Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging (MBIB) Division worked with University of Washington's David Baker, who led a team to design in silico

NASA and Berkeley Lab researchers have teamed up to explore next - generation spacecraft materials at the microscale using an X-ray technique that produces 3 - D images.

Aaron Meisner, a UC Berkeley physics postdoctoral researcher who works on DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument), a sky - mapping project led by the Berkeley Lab, said his research earned him a spot on the Backyard Worlds team.