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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · 14d

@jgi.doe.gov sr. engineering associate Berkeley Kauffman was arriving at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov's main site when he encountered this guy out for a morning stroll. "It's aways cool seeing how much wildlife shares the Hill with us!" he noted. #WildlifeWednesday

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · 15d

ICYMI: @berkeleylab.lbl.gov is integrating artificial intelligence, automation, and powerful data systems to transform the speed and scale of discovery across scientific disciplines. Read about 8 ways we're using AI to make research faster, smarter, and more impactful. go.lbl.gov/AI_listicle

How AI and Automation are Speeding Up Science and Discovery

Berkeley Lab is transforming research across disciplines from energy to materials science and more, strengthening American innovation and the nation’s scientific edge.

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · 18d

#BioBSE researchers Jay Keasling and @cdscown.bsky.social are contributing to a cleaner planet by being part of a newly funded project to develop biodegradable bioplastics from domestic biomass. #WorldCleanupDay

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Researchers leverage advanced bioengineering techniques to develop plastics made from sustainable biomaterials

Less than 10% of plastics are recycled. A Purdue-led team, backed by NSF, is creating durable bioplastics from raw materials — reducing waste and strengthening sustainable manufacturing.

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · 19d

To advance the fight against antibiotic resistance, a team led by @fraserlab.com developed a compound that could help restore the effectiveness of a class of antibiotics known as streptogramins. They used data collected at @als.lbl.gov & SSRL. #BioMBIB @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

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Researchers use synchrotron X-rays to identify promising candidate in the battle against antibiotic resistance

X-rays unveil new molecular structure details that will help researchers design novel drug therapies to address antibiotic resistant bacteria.

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · 21d

We are chuffed to have 6 postdocs representing #TeamBioSci in the 8th annual @berkeleylab.lbl.gov Research SLAM tomorrow, Thurs Sept 18 @ 3 PM PDT! Lab staff can attend live on the Hill or tune in virtually and cast votes for the People's Choice Award. Everyone else, watch this space for updates!

Clockwise from top left: Thasneem Frousnoon, Laura Cook, Marta Cerruti, Jacob Rapp, Heejung Cho, and Jaya Tripathi.

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · 22d

Congratulations to #BioMBIB faculty scientist Susan Marqusee, who was named to The Protein Society's inaugural Fellows class. Susan is a professor of biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and Director of @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social .

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · 23d

Hira Lesea lived many lives—from punk rocker to retreat chef—before becoming a sr. research associate in #BioEGSB. These days, she's into cultivating a sense of collaborative creativity, both in her work @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and in her personal life. Read her story: go.lbl.gov/lesea #TeamBioSci

Woman with long wavy brown hair and bangs wearing safety goggles, white lab coat, and blue gloves holding a petri dish in a laboratory setting.

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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hiding in plain sight - how close are we to mapping ALL 🧬enhancers🧬 in the genome?

Our new paper by Mannion et al. takes a systematic look at "hidden enhancers" and why they remain so hard to find. With @mosterwalder.bsky.social, @jlopezrios.bsky.social & many more

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A busy tool wall in a shed. At the bottom there are instructions saying "Find the 10 hidden enhancers!" Across the wall between the tools are 10 enhancers, represented as DNA helices, but they are difficult to find in the style of a "hidden object" puzzle. Original photo by Lachlan Donald, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lox/9408028555

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Joint Genome Institute @jgi.doe.gov · Sep 4

Setsuko Wakao of @berkeleylab.lbl.gov will map how diatoms, which produce intricate glass-like cell walls that could inspire new biomaterials, regulate biomineralization processes by identifying genes and regulatory proteins controlling silica formation.
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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Sep 4

A team at Indiana University, Bloomington, used beamline 8.2.2 @als.lbl.gov to perform x-ray protein crystallography to resolve the structure of the RNA cloverleaf-protein complex, which plays a critical role in viral replication.

👉 go.lbl.gov/cloverleaf

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Sep 3

We are hiring! Come join #TeamBioSci and help us bring science solutions to the world @berkeleylab.lbl.gov.

Kanupriya Pande's group in #BioMBIB has an opening for a Computational Postdoctoral Fellow (cryo-EM).

https://lbl.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=104578

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Sep 2

Researchers @scripps.edu used the BCSB macromolecular crystallography beamline 5.0.2 @als.lbl.gov to characterize a protein from a modern shark gene that explains the evolution of the adaptive immune system shared by all vertebrates. #BioMBIB

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A nurse shark against a background of clear blue water.

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Aug 28

Congratulations to the SIBYLS beamline team on being recognized with the 2025 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation for pioneering the development of time-resolved, high-throughput, small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) for collection of data from biological samples @als.lbl.gov.

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Aug 25

A study led by #BioBSE researchers sheds light on the risks cosmic rays pose to the behavioral health of astronauts. The results suggest a paradigm shift away from DNA as the target for damage by certain light ions, which abound in outer space.
Read more: go.lbl.gov/ure3ga

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Aug 21

#BioEGSB's @pcronald.bsky.social received the President’s Award for Advancement of Common Good from @stanford.edu for her research on environmental stress resilience in rice, which led to the development of flood-tolerant rice now grown by +6M farmers in SE Asia. https://go.lbl.gov/ronald-stanford

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Aug 20

#BioMBIB faculty scientist Markita Landry's lab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social developed a novel nanosensor for #oxytocin that was recently used in a collaboration with Cal colleague Annaliese Beery's lab to show that the "love hormone" is important for friendships, too. go.lbl.gov/oxytocin

Is the 'love hormone,' oxytocin, also the 'friendship hormone'? - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley study found that social prairie voles lacking the receptor for oxytocin are slow to form friendships and less aggressive toward unfamiliar peers. This suggests a role for oxytocin in bot...

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Joint Genome Institute @jgi.doe.gov · Aug 14

Improvements to DAP-seq technology enable it to handle larger genomes and could expand opportunities for bioenergy and bioengineering applications—via multiplexed assays and data integration with single-cell gene expression maps.

Full story: jgi.doe.gov/user-science...

@axelvisel.bsky.social 🖥️🧬 🌱

DAP-seq Drives Robust Mapping of Gene Regulation | Joint Genome Institute

Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Aug 7

A team led by scientists @ucdavis.bsky.social, that included Daniil Prigozhin of #BioMBIB, used AI to help plants recognize a wider range of bacterial threats. The approach may lead to new ways to protect crops like tomatoes and potatoes from devastating diseases. go.lbl.gov/plant-immune-upgrade

Photo showing three potato plants growing in soil: the ones on the left and right are healthy; the one in the middle is wilted due to the bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum. Credit: Amilcar Sanchez

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Aug 6

Congratulations to @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social on being the 2026 recipient of the @acs.org's Priestley Medal! Doudna was recognized for her high-impact discoveries on #RNA molecules with enzymatic functions, including the development of #CRISPR 🧬 ✂️.

More 👉 go.lbl.gov/doudna-priestly
📷 Glenn Ramit

Doudna in a laboratory setting holding model of CRISPR by Glenn Ramit/Innovative Genomics Institute

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Aug 5

Ruiwen Hu, a postdoc in #BioEGSB, attended #LiNo25 in #Chemistry as part of the UC President’s annual fellowship program. The event “offered a rare opportunity to engage directly with some of the world’s foremost scientific minds," including Nobel Laureate Moungi Bawendi (pictured with Hu).

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Aug 1

Take a few minutes to watch @jgi.doe.gov postdoc Yumary Vasquez talk abt "going viral" in a BIG way at the National Lab SLAM last March. Learn how infections from giant viruses can impact our water, air, soil, even the gut microbiome!

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#FlashbackFriday @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

Yumary Vasquez - "These viruses are going viral (and protecting our ecosystems, too!)"

YouTube video by National Lab SLAM

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Aug 1

It's fascinating to watch the @berkeleylab.lbl.gov riggers at work in the @als.lbl.gov!

Berkeley Lab Engineering Division @lbnlengineering.lbl.gov · Aug 1

See our incredible rigging team in action at the @als.lbl.gov! More about roof blocks here: physicalsciences.lbl.gov/2025/07/28/a...

Video: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Jul 30

Join #TeamBioSci & help us bring science solutions to the world at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov!

We are #hiring an Advanced Analysis Manager & Research Associate Principal at @jgi.doe.gov, DevOps Software Engineer at @kbase.us & a computational postdoc for #cryoEM in #BioMBIB.

go.lbl.gov/bioscijobs

A card with two illustrated scientists that reads, "We are hiring! Join #TeamBioSci Learn more at go.lbl.gov/bioscijobs."

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · Jul 30

This week on the pod 🔊

🌊 The deepest ecosystem ever discovered
🦠 How infections could awaken dormant cancer

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Earth's deepest ecosystem discovered six miles below the sea

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 30 July 2025

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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab @biosci.lbl.gov · Jul 29

Researchers from Novartis Biomedical Research used a #BioMBIB -run beamline at the @als.lbl.gov to confirm the structure of an engineered immune system protein that could open new opportunities to treat inflammatory bowel disease.

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#IBD #AcceleratingScience @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

A molecular rendering of the engineered graft of IL-10 with an antibody (GFT-IL10M). Structural analysis of GFT-IL10M using x-ray crystallography at the ALS provided insight into its improved anti-inflammatory properties. The schematic illustrates that the designed biotherapeutic minimized pro-inflammatory signaling observed in wild-type IL-10. (Credit: Michael DiDonato/Novartis Biomedical Research)

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