BFI Center for Diversified Farming Systems fellow and ESPM PhD student Maywa Montenegro published an Ensia article discussing how gene editing offers dramatic advances in speed, scope, and scale of genetic improvement, while offering an opportunity for more nuanced GMO governance.
Daily Californian | January 22, 2016
PMB professor Anastasios Melis is quoted in this Daily California article about Berkeley Lab's recent study detailing how chlorophylls can transfer energy very quickly. Melis states that the study "represents a more realistic visualization of the actual early events in photosynthesis."
Public Health Online | January 15, 2016
NST's nutrition program was recently ranked #2 in the country! The wide-ranging curriculum looks at everything from how nutrients get to cells to diet-related diseases. Graduates interested specifically in dietetics go on to become registered dieticians or work in food production, food service and more.
The Nature of All Things (Canadian TV show) | November 01, 2015
ESPM professor Katharine Milton and Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) professor Bruce Ames were featured in a Canadian TV Show, The Nature of All Things. In the episode, The Curious Case of Vitamins and Me, Milton discusses the loss of the ability to synthesize vitamin C in all anthropoids including humans and implications of this loss for humans today and in the recent past.
NST adjunct associate professor Dale Leitman has found that interactions with cell-growth regulating agents—signaling molecules in the cells—could indicate that low-dose parabens (found in many cosmetics) are more harmful than previously thought.
PMB professor Arash Komeili and grad student David Hershey are featured in California Magazine on their recent research on magnetotactic bacteria and magnetosomes.