January 2019 – July 2022
Dual barcoded shotgun expression library sequencing, or Dub-seq, is a novel high-throughput method for discovering gene function in microbes under various environmental conditions. The Dub-seq team presented details of the technique in a paper published in Nature Communications.
To help solve a big data program for a new telescope that will conduct a major sky survey from the high desert of Chile, a scientific collaboration launched a competition to find the best way to train computers to identify the many types of objects it will be imaging.
The time to consider nominees for the 2019 R&D100 Awards has arrived. Technologies first made available for sale, license, or use outside the Lab (as in the case of open source software) between January 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019 are eligible for 2019 Awards.
New simulations led by researchers at the Lab and UC Berkeley combine decades-old theories to provide new insight about the driving mechanisms in plasma jets that allow them to steal energy from black holes’ powerful gravitational fields and propel it far from their gaping mouths.
How can we overcome the exotic materials supply problem when it comes to developing quantum computers? Speaking at conferences and national forums, Irfan is encouraging more people to take an interest in the quantum industry.
Zahid Hussain received the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award, one of the highest scientific honors given by Energy Secretary Rick Perry, recognizing “continuous and distinctive achievements … within or beyond an individual’s area of responsibility, which are of substantial value” to the DOE. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/01/22/berkeley-lab-pioneer-in-synchrotron-techniques-and-tools-receives-doe-secretarys-award/
Zahid Hussain received the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award, one of the highest scientific honors given by Energy Secretary Rick Perry, recognizing “continuous and distinctive achievements … within or beyond an individual’s area of responsibility, which are of substantial value” to the DOE.
A new archive, called Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE), preserves, expands access to, and improves usability of data from DOE’s research in terrestrial and subsurface environments.
John Hartwig, head of the Catalysis and Chemical Transformations Program in the Chemical Sciences Division and professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry for the development of efficient transition-metal catalysts that have revolutionized drug manufacturing. https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/01/17/uc-berkeley-researchers-awarded-wolf-prizes-in-agriculture-chemistry/