January 2019 – July 2022
The Friday SLAM series comes to end today with Wenhao Sun, who won the Lab’s early career and postdoc pitch contest last September. Watch and read his pitch on “Mapping Uncharted Chemical Spaces.” https://slam.lbl.gov/2019-slam/2019-finalists/wenhao-sun
Jennifer Doudna of the Lab’s Biosciences Area will share the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine, a prestigious international prize awarded for unique contributions to humanity. She shares the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier in recognition of their CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology. https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2020/01/13/jennifer-doudna-awarded-2020-wolf-prize-in-medicine/
Every Friday in a feature series in Elements, meet one of the 12 early career Lab scientists who competed in the 2019 SLAM pitch contest. This week, watch and read Bashir Mohammed’s pitch on “Seven Point One [7.1].” https://slam.lbl.gov/2019-slam/2019-finalists/bashir-mohammed
Tammy Campbell of the IT Division is committed to education advocacy and has supported numerous mentoring programs at the Lab and in the local community. She started work at the Lab as a mentored undergrad 38 years ago. Learn more about Campbell’s passion for mentoring in this 3Q4 feature. https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/2020/01/08/three-questions-for-tammy-campbell-on-mentoring/
Lab Controller Paul Flynn passed away on Dec. 3 from colon cancer. Flynn served as Acting Controller starting in June 2017 and was named Controller in March 2019. Read more about his contributions to the Lab’s financial systems, and why his co-workers will miss his sense of fun. https://sites.google.com/view/remembering-paul-flynn/home
NBC affiliate KNTV interviewed ETA researcher Wanyu Rengie Chan for a story on a Berkeley Lab study showing that 85 percent of Bay Area classrooms had levels of carbon dioxide above acceptable levels of 1,000 parts per million, which can affect health and academic performance. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/carbon-dioxide-the-invisible-indoor-air-pollutant-in-californias-classrooms/2199474/
Every Friday in a feature series in Elements, meet one of the 12 early career Lab scientists who competed in the 2019 SLAM pitch contest. This week, watch and read Tess Smidt’s pitch on “Master of Atoms.” https://slam.lbl.gov/2019-slam/2019-finalists/tess-smidt
Akiyo has joined the hill as part of the KBase move to the new Integrative Genomics Building (IGB). KBase is a software and data platform designed to meet the challenge of systems biology: predicting and designing biological function. Read more about Akiyo. https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/2019/12/19/three-question-for-kbases-akiyo-marukawa/
Namrata Ramesh, an Advanced Light Source affiliate and UC Berkeley student, was selected as a 2020 Rhodes Scholar. One of the oldest and most prestigious scholarships, just under 100 Rhodes Scholars are selected each year from around the world to attend Oxford University. https://scholarships.berkeley.edu/namrata-ramesh-selected-2020-rhodes-scholar?utm_source=Berkeleyan&utm_campaign=81605afe9f-berkeleyan&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_99ee3800d7-81605afe9f-388726225
The new occupants of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) gathered outside their new digs on Monday as part of a “building warming” event, which included a welcome by Lab Director Mike Witherell, holiday treats, and games. Click to view a larger version of the photo. https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2019/12/IGB-group-shot-compressed-scaled.jpg
