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11/16/2001 - A new clue to how viruses infect cells
Science Beat - In a development that holds ramifications for gene
therapy and infection-fighting drugs, a research collaboration led by
Carlos Bustamante of Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division
has discovered the mechanism by which at least some viruses infect the
cells of other organisms with their DNA. More
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11/15/2001 - Piping online college courses to high schools
UCB press release - The first to benefit will be students in Vallejo
High School's advanced placement chemistry class, who on Monday will "virtually"
join students from UC Berkeley in the class lecture by watching a real-time
Webcast of the class... Alex Pines, a professor of chemistry at
UC Berkeley, will present the lecture. More
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11/14/2001 - Awards: Campus has new AAAS members
Berkeleyan - American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Berkeley’s new members are as follows: Michael Botchan and Russell
Jones, biological sciences; Carolyn Bertozzi, Charles Harris, Alexander
Pines and Richard Saykally, chemistry; More
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November 2001 - Author describes UCSC contribution to Human Genome
Project
Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine
and Enhance Your Health, by Nicholas Wade, tells the story of the
Human Genome Project. In Amazon.com's excerpt from the book, he recounts
how UCSC scientists stepped in to provide critical computational analysis
in the last stages of the human genome working draft project. More
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10/18/2001 - Molecular motor powerful enough to pack DNA into viruses
at greater than champagne pressures, researchers report
UCB press release - ... than any known molecular motor, and can
pack DNA to a pressure of about 60 atmospheres," said biophysicist Carlos
Bustamante, professor of physics and of molecular and cell biology
in the College of Letters & Science at UC. More
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10/01/2001 - CNN/TIME: Bustamante one of "America's Best in Science
and Medicine"
L&S College News - This year, TIME Magazine has selected
L&S's own Carlos Bustamante and Tim White as two of "America's
Best in Science and Medicine." These faculty members share the honor with
16 other scientists and doctors specializing in fields such as astrophysics,
stem cell research and pediatrics. More
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Fall 2001 - Travels of a young physicist from basic physics to biomedicine
Berkeley Lab Research Review - Angelo Bifone made the journey
from basic materials science to biomedicine. More
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September 2001 - David Haussler named R&D Magazine 2001 Scientist
of the Year
R&D Magazine - David Haussler was named 2001 Scientist
of the Year by R&D Magazine. He is known for his work on the Human Genome
Project and his research in the field of bioinformatics. More
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05/09/2001 - Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members elected to American
Academy of Arts and Sciences
UCB press release - ... Michael A. Marletta, currently
a professor in the University of Michigan Medical School's Department
of Biological Chemistry and the John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal
Chemistry at the U of M's College of Pharmacy. More
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05/09/2001 - Awards
Berkeleyan - ... and economics; Professor Ignacio Tinoco, chemistry;
Professor Janet Yellen, economics, Haas School of Business; Michael
Marletta, who holds a joint appointment in chemistry and molecular
and cell biology, was also elected. More
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05/09/2001 - Awards
Berkeleyan - ... John Kuriyan, professor of chemistry and
of molecular and cell biology, and an investigator in the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute. Kuriyan explores how particular structures and atomic
interactions underlie the transmission... More
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05/01/2001 - Eight UC Berkeley faculty members elected today to prestigious
National Academy of Sciences
UCB press release - ... John Kuriyan, professor of chemistry
and of molecular and cell biology, and an investigator in the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute. Kuriyan, who explores how particular structures and
atomic interactions underlie the transmission. More
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May 2001 - UCSC researchers solve x-ray crystal structure
Science - Harry Noller's group solved the x-ray crystal
structure of 70S ribosome functional complexes, first at 7.8 angstrom
resolution, then at 5.5 angstrom resolution. The research was originally
reported in the journal Science. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/285/5436/2095
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/292/5518/883
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04/27/2001 - The following release was issued by the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute regarding a paper in this week's Science by UC Berkeley
UCB press release - ... by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
re a paper in this week's Science by UC Berkeley molecular biologist Carlos
Bustamante and chemist Ignacio Tinoco Jr. Researchers Unfold
Single RNA Molecules Using Mechanical Force Story... More
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04/05/2001 - Richard Karp: CS pioneer zeros in on bioinformatics
Engineering News - The emerging field of bio-informatics –
using computers and algorithms to analyze and model data to determine
how genes and living cells work – received a boost at Berkeley last year
with the return of theoretical computer scientist Richard Karp.
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April 2001 - UCSC nanopore research reported
Science - In the Tech.Sight section of the April 20th issue
of Science, the UCSC Nanopore Research Team's Nanopore system was
profiled. The team is headed by David Deamer, professor of chemistry
and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz. More
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02/12/2001 - Grad student becomes gene effort's unlikely hero
New York Times - Jim Kent, a UCSC graduate student on the Human
Genome Team, creator of the pioneering GigAssembler program, which first
assembled existing DNA sequences, was profiled in The New York Times.
More
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February 2001 - UCSC joins other Human Genome Project teams to publish
working draft of human genome sequence
Nature - UCSC's Human Genome Project team joined other teams to
publish a working draft of human genome sequence in Nature. More
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01/31/2001 - 2000-2001 New Faculty
Berkeleyan - ... Michael Marletta Professor of Chemistry
A.B. SUNY '73 Ph.D. UC San Francisco '78 Expertise: The discipline and
tools of chemistry to probe questions of biological function; enzyme catalysis;
signal transduction with a specific... More
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01/10/2001 - Computer science pioneer lends bioinformatics expertise
for QB3
Berkeleyan - While computers have rapidly mapped the DNA in the
human genome, computer scientists and mathematicians are building new
computational programs and tools to make sense of it all. The emerging
field of bioinformatics - using computers and algorithms to analyze and
model data to determine how genes and living cells work... More
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01/10/2001 - Tiny MEMS help the body
Berkeleyan - ... Take the work of Dorian Liepmann, a Berkeley
mechanical engineer and member of the new QB3 institute. He has chipped
away at countless miniature devices to produce everything from motors
to tweezers for disk drives, chip... More
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01/10/2001 - Researchers use synthetics to mimic the human body
Berkeleyan - ... Governor funds QB3 proposal Davis urges financial
support in next budget for Berkeley 'public interest' research center
Tiny MEMS help the body Computer science pioneer lends bioinformatics
expertise for QB3 UC Berkeley CISI... More
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January 2001 - President presented with CD of human genome
President Clinton was given a CD-ROM of the human genome that was produced
by UCSC's Human Genome Team members Patrick Gavin and Jorge Garcia. Gavin
created a new data compression algorithm in order to fit the entire genome
on a 700mb CD.
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