ERG professor Dan Kammen and his 1997 paper on "the virtues of mundane science" are highlighted in this New York Times Dot Earth blog on networked knowledge. The author noted that this essay was an early iteration of the present-day call to shift priorities toward helping developing communities seek science-based solutions to a variety of challenges.
Bay Nature | October 25, 2016
ESPM professor Scott Stephens is quoted in this Bay Nature magazine article on the blue gum eucalyptus trees in the East Bay Hills. “Eucalyptus is flammable,” says Stephens, "but the thing that’s most concerning is the volume of material it can produce."
Berkeley Lab | October 24, 2016
ESPM professor Jill Banfield is highlighted in this Berkeley Lab article on a newly released genomic studies on 2500 microbes collected from a Colorado aquifer. The scientists found genomes from 80 percent of all known bacterial phyla and discovered 47 new phylum-level bacterial groups, naming many after Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers. “The combination of high microbial diversity and interconnections through metabolic handoffs likely results in high ecosystem resilience,” says Banfield
Daily Californian | October 23, 2016
PMB researcher and alum Jacob Brunkard (Ph.D. '15) is featured in the Daily Californian for his recent Early Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health. Burnkard will be studying TOR, the protein that organisms use to sense when nutrients are available, and its evolution in plants. “By understanding how plants have evolved differences in the TOR signaling network, we might gain new insight into medical efforts to control TOR activity," said Brunkard.