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Congratulations to Luke Bawazer and Scott Wasko who have both been awarded a UC Graduate Traineeship from the UC Biotechnology Research & Education program for 2007-09!
Luke's proposal is entitled "Training in Biotechnology at the Interface with Materials Science and Engineering: Directed Laboratory Evolution of Biomineralizing Proteins".
Scott's proposal is entitled "Mimickry of Whelk Egg Capsule Biopolymer, a self-healing biopolymer".
Congratulations are also in order for Jamie Neilson, a first year BMSE grad, who has been awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellowship in the Lifesciences!
A research review for the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, taking place Oct 17th and 18th, dedicated to moving research from the lab to industry, featuring research presentations from UCSB faculty.
Engineering Insights Website
Convergence, the award-winning magazine of Engineering and the Sciences, is designed to offer insight into the breakthrough, interdisciplinary research and teaching at UC Santa Barbara.
Convergence Website
Jacob Isralachvili
Professor Isralachvili has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Galen Stucky
Professor Stucky ranked among most highly cited researchers in Materials Science.
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Hyongsok (Tom) Soh
Mechanical & Environmental Engineering's Soh Named ONR Young Investigator.
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David Low
Congratulations to David Low, MCDB Professor, who was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This distinction is based on David's many significant research contributions to the field of Gene Regulation. David has carried out pioneering studies of the role of DNA methylation in controlling gene expression and pathogenesis in bacteria.
Les Wilson
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $9.4 million grant for the
development of new information-processing technologies that will make it possible
to extract detailed understanding of biological processes from images depicting
the distribution of biological molecules within cells or tissues. The project
is headed by Bangalore Manjunath, a professor of electrical and computer engineering
at UCSB, and includes Stuart Feinstein, Les Wilson and Steve Fisher in MCDB.
The five-year grant provides $6.9 million to UCSB and $2.5 million to Carnegie
Mellon University
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Les Wilson
New Research Expected to Improve Cancer Treatments.
MCDB Researchers have determined that a new drug combination containing two natural products – the yew tree derivative Taxol and a chemical from an ocean–growing sponge–might eventually help patients with breast, lung, and ovarian cancer as well as Kaposi's sarcoma. Mary Ann Jordan, Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor in MCDB and NRI, working with Postdoctoral Scholar Kathy Kamath and Professor Les Wilson, found that the synergistic effect of the two drugs together is greater than either one alone.
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