Sentences with phrase «national lab scientist»

The lab is headed by Jay Keasling, a UC Berkeley professor, Berkeley National Lab scientist and pioneer in the field of synthetic biology.

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He is Chief Data Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab, Senior Editor at Marketing Science, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic science.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

However, the connection between the chemical diversity of soil and microbial diversity is poorly understood,» said Trent Northen, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Activists for two issues of interest to young scientists — lab safety and postdoc unionization — have recently exercised that right, bringing their causes to powerful national officials.

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.

17 Addled brain syndrome: Scientists at the University of Minho in Portugal and the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that chronically stressed lab rats respond habitually and ineffectively to stimuli.

An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has given scientists the ability to image nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.

Scientists are studying it now in the research lab of New Zealand's national museum in Wellington where it will likely end up as a preserved specimen.

According to a new study led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and at the University of California, Berkeley, electrons in vanadium dioxide can conduct electricity without conducting heat.

Also during the summer, the lab teams up with the National Park Service for BioTrails: Participating citizen scientists can either collect samples in the field or analyze them in the lab using DNA barcoding.

Canada continues to offer support to Mexico including testing at the National Microbiology Lab and sending two additional scientists from the Public Health Agency to Mexico.

The research, from scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is presented as the cover story in the May special issue of Physics of Plasmas.

They included: Bill Ghiorse, who led someEnvironmental Protection Agency research into subsurface bacteria thateat toxic waste; Duane Moser, a lab wizard and avid spelunker; SvetlanaKotelnikova, a Russian scientist working in Sweden; Mary DeFlaun ofEnvirogen; and Jim Fredrickson, who has isolated many deep - bacteriacultures while working at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that dark fiber — the vast network of unused fiber - optic cables installed throughout the country and the world — can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, the presence of groundwater, changes in permafrost conditions, and a variety of other subsurface activity.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and NASA are using X-rays to explore, via 3 - D visualizations, how the microscopic structures of spacecraft heat shield and parachute materials survive extreme temperatures and pressures, including simulated atmospheric entry conditions on Mars.

Tang, a Chinese - born scientist who works at a USDA - funded nutrition lab at Tufts, is accused of bringing cooked golden rice into China without obtaining the proper Chinese government approvals and beginning the experiment 11 days before required permission had been obtained from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

To analyze the chemical complexity of the material, the scientists used beamline 8 - ID at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS - II)-- also a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven Lab.

An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a technique they dubbed «gas adsorption crystallography» that provides a new way to study the process by which metal - organic frameworks (MOFs)-- 3D crystals with extraordinarily large internal surface areas — are able to store immense volumes of gases such a carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane.

Claire Robertson is a postdoctoral scientist in cancer bioengineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

The work, led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Michigan State University (MSU), will appear in the June 23 issue of the journal Science.

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been studying the molecules that act at the genetic level to give rise to different types of cells.

The holder of about 20 patents, Remo continued his research on meteorites on the side, and both strands of work brought him into contact with scientists at various national labs.

The team of scientists from Brookhaven Lab, Stony Brook University, and the National University of San Luis in Argentina synthesized 2D aluminosilicate (composed of aluminum, silicon, and oxygen) films on top of a ruthenium metal surface.

One big difference between a university and this national lab is that here they highly encourage collaboration with other postdocs, staff scientists, and with scientists at universities.

He teamed up with Robert Seder of the Vaccine Research Center (VCR) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and scientists at other labs to test immune responses to the vaccine in animals.

LUX improvements, coupled to advanced computer simulations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Brown University's Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV), have allowed scientists to test additional particle models of dark matter that now can be excluded from the search.

In a major policy shift that is reverberating across the biomedical research community, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, says it plans to cap the number of grants an investigator can hold in order to free up funding for early - career scientists and those struggling to keep their labs afloat.

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.

Such a material — a photovoltaic glass that is also reversibly thermochromic — is a green technology researchers have long worked toward, and now, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a way to make it work.

The chemical mechanism, discovered by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, could also broaden our understanding of basic chemical reaction processes involving common helpers, called catalysts, like copper and gold.

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.

The findings were made by an international team of researchers led by Ms Caitlin Gionfriddo and Dr John Moreau from the University of Melbourne, and also included scientists from the Centre for Systems Genomics at the University of Melbourne, the US Geological Survey and Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Ratti's co-authors on the paper are Remi Tachet, a researcher at Senseable City Lab (who is the corresponding author); Oleguer Sagarra of Senseable City Lab; Paolo Santi, a research scientist at Senseable City Lab and a senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council CNR; Giovanni Resta of the Italian National Research Council CNR; Michael Szell, a researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and Steven Strogatz, a mathematician at Cornell University.

By the time Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists Barry Freifeld and Curt Oldenburg visited the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in December 2015, the SS - 25 well blowout had been leaking natural gas into the air for more than six weeks.

Now, scientists who are members of the Center for Computational Study of Excited - State Phenomena in Energy Materials (C2SEPEM) a new energy materials - related science center based at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have solved a mystery that could lead to gains in efficiency.

A panel of experts from several U.S. Department of Energy — affiliated national labs also suggested that scientists from government labs partner with schools to incorporate STEM skills and topics even in non-STEM classes.

In a recent issue of Nano Letters, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) demonstrated a new growth technique that uses specially engineered catalysts.

Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have come up with a novel machine learning method that enables scientists to derive insights from systems of previously intractable complexity in record time.

As the first of several national laboratories that China intends to launch in the coming years — others will be devoted to brain research, physics, and environmental science — the Qingdao lab will also be a bellwether for efforts to persuade scientists to accept greater government scrutiny and direction in exchange for ample resources.

Now a team of researchers, led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, reports in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that it has identified just such a drug in the lab: indazole chloride (Ind - Cl).

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), who have made important findings on the dangers of thirdhand smoke and how it adsorbs strongly onto indoor surfaces, have published a new study assessing the health effects of thirdhand smoke constituents present in indoor air.

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have shown, using a recent theory for nonlinear light scattering when light passes through nanostructures, that it is possible to predict the nonlinear optical properties of metamaterials.

Now scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a highly accurate, DNA - based method to detect and distinguish sources of microbial contamination in water.

The research, funded in part by the US Department of Energy through the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy and by the National Science Foundation, included members of Haile's lab team at Northwestern as well as scientists from the University of Maryland and the California Institute of Technology.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have uncovered new clues about the risk of cancer from low - dose radiation, which in this research they define as equivalent to 100 millisieverts or roughly the dose received from ten full - body CT scans.

Jacobs will be exploring this mechanism further as a scientist selected to be on the team of the National Science Foundation's «Cracking the Olfactory Code» Ideas Lab, which takes place this summer.

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

As the scientists write in their study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they hoped to get a clearer picture of how the new mechanism evolved by tweaking the enzyme in the lab.