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The New York Times is running a long piece on one team's efforts in the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition at MIT:

(full agenda below)

REGISTRATION:
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WHEN:
Sunday February 28 - Tuesday March 2, 2010
(morning of March 3 - PIs and NSF only meeting)

On August 12 visitors and researchers from around the SF Bay Area packed into the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) seminar room. They weren’t coming to see a renowned scientist or the director of a Federal research office. They came to hear the story of six unassuming and slightly shy high school researchers who spent their summer in a biofuels lab.

Scientiae Histoiria RomaeAdrian Van Allen, a multimedia designer and exhibit developer at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, the designer of Ars Synthetica and an upcoming, revamped SynBERC home page, has won the prestigious Rome Prize in design to study and work in Rome.

Susan MarquseeSynBERC PI Susan Marqusee has been appointed Interim Director of QB3 at UC Berkeley, effective April 15, assuming the post recently vacated by Graham Fleming, who was named Vice Chancellor for Research. Marqusee has helped to lead QB3-Berkeley as Associate Director since the Institute's formation in 2000.

SynBERC has revamped and expanded its Scientific Advisory Board, which now includes several new luminaries. We welcome them all and look forward to talking with them at the upcoming retreat:

Jef Boeke, PhD,  Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins Medical School
Douglas Cameron, PhD, Managing Director and Chief Science Advisor, Piper Jaffray & Co.
James Collins, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and HHMI, Boston University
Maitreya Dunham, PhD,  Assist. Professor of Genome Science, University of Washington

May 26, 2009 —The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) selected SynBERC Director Jay Keasling as the honoree for the first annual Biotech Humanitarian Award. Keasling was selected not only for his professional accomplishments to date, but also for the promise and potential that his research holds. Dr. Keasling was presented the Award during a keynote luncheon held at the 2009 BIO International Convention in Atlanta, GA. He was presented with a $10,000 award to help support his work.