Gallant featured in Nature
Neuroscientist Jack Gallant was featured in the latest edition of the journal Nature, discussing his team’s work on creating algorithms to decode brain scans and decipher what people are seeing, hearing and feeling.
Li Lab shows physical cues help mature cells revert into embryonic-like stem cells
October 21, 2013
Professor Song Li and his research team have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when inducing mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in the body.
Michelle Chang’s work touted in Science
A new synthetic biology technique could revolutionize medicinal chemistry by enabling site-selective insertion of fluorine into natural products in vivo. Read more (subscription required) at Science.
Tim Downing in BMES video
Check out BioE Ph.D. student Tim Downing explaining his research in this video from BMES 2013.
Nelson leads team to new prostate cancer monitoring method
Sarah Nelson, UCSF Professor of radiology and co-chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, has led a team of researchers who developed a new imaging technology to noninvasively image prostate tumors.
Tekla Labs sponsors “Build My Lab” contest
Tekla Labs, a non-profit founded by BioE graduate students and postdocs, are sponsoring the Build My Lab Contest, a DIY lab equipment design competition along with Instructables.
Alumni Steen and Dietrich in Wired magazine
PhD alumni Eric Steen (’10) and Jeff Dietrich (’11) are featured in “Synthetic Biology 2.0” in Wired magazine online. The article discusses their startup company Lygos and the the up-and-coming garage garage industry of synthetic biology.
Five students named 2014 Siebel Scholars
The Siebel Foundation has announced the names of five UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate students who have been named Siebel Scholars.
Kassianidou wins HHMI Fellowship
August 14, 2013 –
BioE graduate student Elena Kassianidou has been awarded an International Predoctoral Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Natividad-Diaz wins 2nd for Innovation in Primary Healthcare
July 12, 2013 –
Bioengineering Ph.D. student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz has won second place in the Prize for Primary Healthcare, a CIMIT – Ambulatory Practice of the Future competition.
The Biological Basis of SPD in Kids
July 9, 2013 –
Ph.D. alumna Julia Owen (2011) and UCSF faculty member Pratik Mukherjee have published breakthrough research showing that Sensory Processing Disorders in children have a biological basis.
Read the Summer 2013 BioE Graduate Newsletter
The Summer 2013 newsletter of the UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering is out! Read up on our students faculty and alumni in our latest newsletter.
Alumni Profile: Karen Christman
An interview with Karen Christman (Ph.D. 2003), Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego, member of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, and Co-founder of biotech company Ventrix, Inc.
Big BEAR – Steering students to graduate school success
At a time when debate rages about whether graduate school is smart choice—while some talk about tuition costs and others about job markets—Big BEAR at Berkeley is helping fellow students find their right choice.
Ask Ph.D. student Eric Jabart for the most important factor for graduate school success, and he won’t tell you hard work, or brilliant research, or a high-ranking school. It’s choosing the right lab, being proactive, and learning to cope with the ups and downs.
Eric, Wiktor Stopka, Amy Orsborn, and other UC Berkeley – UCSF Bioengineering graduate students founded Big BEAR (BioEngineering Advising Representatives) in 2011 to mentor undergraduates interested in research and graduate education, as well as graduate students interested in career exploration.
Working closely with the undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) at UC Berkeley, they run a series of panels on how to be successful in graduate school, interview at graduate programs, and how to pick a grad school lab. They also run a research recruitment forum to match undergraduates needing research experience with faculty and advanced students needing lab help, a mentorship program pairing undergraduates with graduate students, and a series of panels for graduate students
LegoScope at Maker Faire
Congratulations to the LegoScope team, winners of the Educators Choice award at Maker Faire 2013! The LegoScope crew tested out the classic LegoScope, OpenScope and cheaper ComponentScope with regular slides as well as a number of live samples like zebrafish, C. elegans, fruit fly maggots, planaria worms, and sea anemones. They made contact with local teachers, hoping to bring the microscopes to classrooms soon.
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Congratulations Outstanding GSIs
May 20, 2013 –
Congratulations to Anum Azam, Tim Downing, Zach Russ, and Augusto Tentori, 2012-2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors at UC Berkeley. These GSIs were nominated by their instructor for excellent teaching and mentoring as GSIs in a bioengineering class. Congratulations!
Berke wins literary prize
April 19, 2013 –
Congratulations to Allison Berke, a winner of the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize in Literary Composition at UC Berkeley. The Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prizes in Literary Composition are awarded for excellence of composition in poetry, story writing, drama, or another field of literary composition.
Congratulations 2013 NSF Fellows
Congratulations to our SEVEN new NSF fellows in bioengineering!
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program has awarded prestigious fellowships to seven Berkeley-UCSF graduate students: Daniel Hensley, Kesshi Jordan, Isaac Joseph, Preeya Khanna, Harrison Liu, Ryan Orendorff, and Julea Vlassakis.
Connie Cheung leads 3rd place team in Idea to IPO
April 12, 2013 –
Bioengineering Ph.D. student Connie Cheung was the team leader for the third-place team in this year’s UCSF Idea to IPO course.
Daniel Cohen wins the 2013 Cubicciotti Award
March 27, 2013 –
BioE graduate student Daniel Cohen has been awarded the 2013 Daniel Cubicciotti Award by the San Francisco section of the Electrochemical Society.
BioE grad students in startup Foundry
Several bioengineering graduate students are among the six student teams selected this February to work with experts at the Foundry@CITRIS to push their innovative technology ideas to market.
Alum Tsou profiled in Daily Cal
January 22, 2013 –
Very recent BioE alumna An-Chi Tsou was profiled in the Daily Cal about her new job at the California Science and Technology Policy Fellowship.
LegoScope on ABC news
January 18, 2013 –
The LegoScope – a simple microscope based upon the CellScope developed in Fletcher Lab and built with Legos – was featured on ABC7 news on Thursday, January 17.