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Berkeley Center for Synthetic Biology opens
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Michelle Chang
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ChemE postdoc Michelle Chang describes her research to attendees at an Engineering Dean’s Society event last month celebrating the opening of the new Berkeley Center for Synthetic Biology.
The research labs of BioE/ChemE professor Jay Keasling and BioE professors Adam Arkin and Dan Fletcher are now located at the off-campus state-of-the-art laboratory facility, where they are pioneering advances in synthetic biology.
The promising new discipline builds living systems from genes, proteins, and other basic biological components. Chang’s project, with Keasling and ChemE graduate student Eric Paradise (right), uses bacteria to synthesize anti-malaria treatments faster and more economically than they can be manufactured from botanicals.
For more details, see the cover story in the spring 2005 issue of Forefront. |
