Science ProgramsDirector's Spotlight
Division Director Jay Keasling is working with the excellent scientists in PBD to build research collaborations within the division and with other divisions at LBNL to tackle some of the grand challenges facing our society, particularly those in the area of renewable energy, all the while doing the first-class science for which this Division is well-known.
PBD LeadershipBPD Researchers Identify Photosynthetic Dimmer Switch
As part of the Pantheon Ceremony on Nov. 13, Berkeley Lab’s Michelle Chang will receive the “2008 Rising Star” award. The event hosted by Bay Bio, a trade association serving the life science industry in Northern California. Chang works in the Physical Biosciences Division developing basic tools for engineering organisms that can perform all kinds of reactions that are too difficult, expensive, or dangerous with traditional chemistry.
Higher Temps Yield More Sensitive MRI
Standard magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, is a superb diagnostic tool but one that suffers from low sensitivity, requiring patients to remain motionless for long periods of time inside noisy, claustrophobic machines. Full story.
