Archives for June 2021

A research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has developed a nanoparticle composite that grows into 3D crystals. Ting Xu and Peter Ercius, two WD&E mentors, are featured.

Three Berkeley Lab projects were awarded more than $2 million from the DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) to further collaborative research and development with industry partners on radioactivity detecting technology, next generation electrodes for electrolysis of water, and high performance sustainable aviation fuel. One of these teams is headed by Eric Sundstrom, a SULI mentor.

This article profiles the Advanced Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory, a new capstone course in the program taught by WD&E mentor Jay Keasling. The course prepares students for careers in the biopharmaceutical, industrial biotech, or food tech industries by giving them much-needed hands-on experience with bioprocessing equipment. WD&E mentor Deepti Tanjore, director of ABPDU, is also interviewed.

Barbara Jacak, a faculty senior scientist and former director of the Nuclear Science Division, was recently named a member of the prestigious American Philosophical Society.

After several years of research led by Berkeley Lab,  scientists have made significant progress in developing battery cathodes that can be made of inexpensive and abundant metals. Ravi Prasher, Berkeley Lab’s Associate Lab Director for Energy Technologies and SULI mentor, is interviewed in this feature story.

SULI mentors Kristin Persson and Haruko Wainwright are just a few of the featured speakers for the upcoming Berkeley Lab 90th Anniversary Speaker Series: Leveraging Machine Learning for Science. Join this session, through ZOOM, on June 25th at 12:00 PM.

Alex Kim, a Lab physicist and SULI mentor, shares his previous experience as a Lab Ambassador and the value he has received from this program in expanding his knowledge, skills, and even recruiting talent to the Lab.

Associate Lab Director, and SULI mentor, Susan Hubbard discusses the EESA’s mission and priorities in a new profile featured on the Next 90.

SULI mentor Jenny Mortimer will describe some of JBEI’s work to engineer the plant cell to improve biomass composition for the production of biofuels and bioproducts, including their efforts to develop an improved model of the plant cell wall using multi-dimensional solid state NMR.

Researchers led by SULI mentor Musahid Ahmed have demonstrated the first real-time measurement, using lab-based methods, of unstable particles called free radicals reacting under cosmic conditions, prompting elementary carbon and hydrogen atoms to coalesce into primal benzene rings.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has passed the halfway mark in the multi-year process of fabricating crucial superconducting cables as part of a project to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. This upgrade, now in progress, will greatly increase the facility’s collision rate and its scientific […]

Former SULI intern Mael Flament has been selected as a 2021 Activate Fellow. Flament is the co-founder of Qunnect. He is working to enable quantum internet.

A team of researchers, led by SULI mentor Rebecca Abergel, has compiled the most complete library yet of lanthanides and their potential toxicity – by exposing baker’s yeast, aka Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to lanthanide metals. Their findings were recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Supervisor Spotlight talks to Kei Nakamura, one of two Associate Deputy Directors (ADD) for Experiments for the BELLA Center and a SULI mentor.

Ben Nachman, a staff scientist in the Physics Division and SULI mentor, has been awarded the Young Experimental Particle Physicist Prize of High Energy and Particle Physics from the European Physical Society. We are Berkeley Lab asked him 3 questions.