January 2019 – July 2022
Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and Western University in Ontario, Canada each honored Biological Systems and Engineering (BSE) Division Distinguished Scientist Mina Bissell this fall for her exceptional body of work in cancer biology, which shifted the central paradigm of the field. https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2019/11/01/mina-bissell-garners-two-international-honors/
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 Lauren Jabusch’s pitch on “Finding Bacteria the Root of Their Dreams.” https://slam.lbl.gov/2019-slam/2019-finalists/lauren-jabusch
Through the Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, DOE’s Office of Science has awarded allocations of supercomputer access to 47 science projects for 2020, including six groups involving researchers from Berkeley Lab. https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2019/doe-announces-2020-incite-allocation-awards/
Georg Rath’s job is to find ways to have the Joint Genome Institute software infrastructure, which has run in a separate location for decades, integrate better with existing onsite Lab computing systems. That will be a bit easier now that he moved into the Integrative Genomics Building this week. https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/2019/12/09/three-questions-for-the-jgis-georg-rath/
In this new Sciencetown podcast, John Shalf of Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences Area discusses how future computers and artificial intelligence will shape the way we explore and understand our world. https://soundcloud.com/sciencetown/bonus-computing-extremely
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 Akanksha Menon’s pitch on “From Waste to Clean Water Using Sunlight.” https://slam.lbl.gov/2019-slam/2019-finalists/akanksha-menon
The Lab’s Fadji Zaouna Maina is among Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list of “revolutionaries changing the course—and the face—of business and society.” Maina, included in the science category, uses computational models to better understand how climate change and pollution affect water availability. https://www.forbes.com/profile/fadji-zaouna-maina/?list=30under30-science#737c37592c53
Natasha Brown is the supply chain manager in the Joint Genome Institute’s Project Management Office. She balances JGI’s production capabilities with the research that JGI users conduct. As she says, “If you have had any projects at the JGI, you have worked with me!” https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/2019/11/27/three-questions-for-jgis-natasha-brown/
Rebecca Abergel, Roland Bürgmann, Cheryl Kerfeld, Michael Manga, Natalie Roe, and David Schaffer have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), honored for “their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.” https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/11/26/berkeley-lab-aaas-fellows/
Berkeley Lab’s Erika Suzuki tied for first place in a September competition that featured technology pitches to an audience that included tech-transfer experts and investors. Her presentation focused on a Lab-developed mobile platform for finding and mapping radioactive and nuclear materials. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/11/25/a-winning-pitch-for-3d-radiation-mapping-tech-qa-with-berkeley-labs-erika-suzuki/