Bioengineering alumna Alana Sherman (Ph.D. 2003) travels around the world developing instrumentation to study the deep ocean for the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). How cool is that? Read more…
We had a chat about flying discs, young fans and lost luggage with BioE grad student An-Chi Tsou, recently home from Italy this summer as a World Champion frisbee player. An-Chi was part of the Team USA mixed gender team at the Beach Ultimate Frisbee World Championships. Read more…
Berkeley will host the annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, June 21-23, 2012. The Systemwide is a three-day conference primarily for bioengineering researchers within the UC system. More details to come!
Research from Bioengineering Graduate Program Chair Tejal Desai will be the first technology supported and licensed through a sponsored research agreement between UCSF and Zcube.
The initial two-year agreement will fund Desai’s work in delivering drugs directly to the small intestine and colon, through an ingestible drug-delivery microdevice. Zcube will receive exclusive, worldwide licensing rights for the UCSF-patented invention. Read more…
Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr, along with graduate student Kelly Karns, has developed a microfluidic assay which can test tears for proteins that signal disease.
Tears are not routinely used for clinical testing because they are alkaline, and do not adhere predictably to antibody-coated surfaces. The Herr Lab assay does not require any surface participation, instead mixing tears with fluorescently-labeled antibody in an 80-micrometer wide channel on polyacrylamide gel. An applied electric field causes proteins of different sizes to move at different rates along the gel, which will allow a fluorescence microscope to quantify the tear protein by the appearance of the distinct visible band produced. Read more…
Chang wins NIH New Innovator Award
Michelle Chang, UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the prestigious New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health, one of 49 early-career researchers recognized in 2011. Learn more about Chang’s research.
Apori wins Widmer Award at MicroTAS!
Bioengineering Ph.D. student Akwasi Apori won the Lab on a Chip Widmer Poster Award at the 2011 International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS). Read more…
Gallant’s imaging reveals movies in our minds
Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and computational models, UC Berkeley researchers have succeeded in decoding and reconstructing people’s dynamic visual experiences – in this case, watching Hollywood movie trailers. The research took place in the laboratory of Professor Jack Gallant, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. Learn more about this research at the Gallant Lab.
Conboy reprograms muscles to combat degeneration
Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Irina Conboy has achieved a breakthrough in regenerative medicine, reprogramming muscles to form new muscle cells. The research exposed muscle progenitor cells, a kind of differentiated stem cell, to chemicals that signaled the mature cells to start dividing again and not to die, growing new muscle. The new muscle cells were injected into mice, contributing to early signs of muscle repair. Read more at the UC Berkeley News Center
