January 2019 – July 2022
Four Lab teams are finalists in the international Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs competition: the Molecular Foundry, Energy Technologies Area, Joint Genome Institute, and Strategic Communications. The Foundry team is also a Top 10 winner. View their team videos. https://pathways.lbl.gov/falling-walls-breakthroughs-of-the-year
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating a world-changing gene-editing technology. At the ALS, Doudna’s work on CRISPR-Cas9 was enabled by many people with innovative ideas, implemented in support of a world-class structural biology program. https://als.lbl.gov/jennifer-doudna-and-the-nobel-prize-the-advanced-light-source-perspective/
Alastair MacDowell is being recognized with a Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s Director’s Awards on Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m. He is recognized for his extraordinary achievements in x-ray instrumentation that resulted in the ALS becoming a world-leading facility. https://recognition.lbl.gov/2020-laureates/lifetime-achievement-awardee-alastair-macdowell/
Early career researchers interested in the DOE Early Career Research Program are invited to attend a virtual round table and networking event on Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. Director Mike Witherell, Deputy Director Horst Simon, and a panel of past awardees will share success strategies. https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWxxZWNrM2Jyc2lndmkyM2Z1OGxwNzZuaW4gbGJsLmdvdl80czRycmcxMmw2ZXFnNm5jbWMya3QwdmNnZ0Bn&tmsrc=lbl.gov_4s4rrg12l6eqg6ncmc2kt0vcgg%40group.calendar.google.com
Murdock Gilchriese will receive a Lifetime Achievement award during the Director’s Awards on Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m. He is being honored for his contributions to the development and management of complex projects in high energy physics at both colliders and in underground experiments. https://recognition.lbl.gov/2020-laureates/lifetime-achievement-awardee-murdock-gilchriese/
Pamela Ronald of JBEI’s Plant Pathology group (Feedstocks Division) has been named the 2020 World Agriculture Prize laureate by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences. She is the first woman whose work is recognized by the award. https://www.jbei.org/jbeis-pamela-ronald-named-gchera-world-agriculture-prize-laureate/
DOE has announced the FY2021 Office of Science Early Career Research Program. This highly prestigious program supports early career researchers at DOE national laboratories with up to $2.5 million over five years to pursue their research. https://elements.lbl.gov/Email/Index/50323246-4050-4ce7-8b32-77086c6a16ba?recipientCode=jCBRFmu%2fJuW2RZzFU%2ftBBRPJkhk%3d
Guosong Zeng has received a Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Postdoctoral Recognition Award from DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Zeng was honored for his contributions to advance light-activated semiconductor cathodes to produce hydrogen via photoelectrochemical water splitting. https://commons.lbl.gov/display/csd/Chemical+Sciences+Division+Home
Michael Barnett of the Physics Division was awarded the Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach by the American Physical Society. This award recognizes the humanitarian aspect of physics through public lectures and public media, teaching, research, or science-related activities. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/nicholson.cfm
As part of Jennifer Doudna’s research for the CRISPR gene-editing tool, which won her a Nobel Prize on Wednesday, her team utilized the Advanced Light Source to help understand the structure of the CRISPR-Cas9 protein complex, which was essential to understanding its function. https://als.lbl.gov/tag/crispr/