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Clothes From A Petri Dish: $700 Million Bolt Threads May Have Cracked The Code On Spider Silk

August 16, 2018

This article is regarding two of our grads, Ethan Mirsky from Biophysics, and Dan Widmaier from CCB:

Dan Widmaier, cofounder and CEO of Bolt Threads, dons a white lab coat with his name and the numeral one—for employee number one—on the back before opening a door to the company’s lab. Inside, Widmaier and his cofounders, David Breslauer and Ethan Mirsky, are growing artificial spider silk, something that scientists around the world have been trying to do for decades. Spider silk is known for being extremely soft and strong, and it could make long-lasting, lightweight and desirable clothes. Link to Forbes Article

Faculty member Peter Walter wins $3M Breakthrough Prize

December 18, 2017

Faculty member Peter Walter wins $3M Breakthrough Prize: Read more

CCB graduate in the news: Bolt Threads

December 18, 2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelarthur/2017/07/20/biotech-gets-the-luxury-nod-with-bolt-threads-x-stella-mccartney-tie-up/#465f0f6833f3

CCB Alumna receives HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship

September 19, 2017

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute today announced the selection of 15 exceptional early career scientists as the first group of HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows. These recent PhD recipients will continue their training as postdoctoral fellows at 11 institutions in the U.S. Their research interests span a range of disciplines, including chemical biology, computational biology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, structural biology, and systems biology.

BBC Faculty to head up new NSF funded Bioengineering Center

October 1, 2016

BBC Faculty to head up new NSF funded Bioengineering Center:

NSF Funds ‘Blue Sky’ Bioengineering Center To Be Based at UCSF

Center Aims to Unite Bay Area Synthetic Biologists, Engineer Biological Machines

The National Science Foundation has awarded $24 million over five years for a new ‘blue-sky’ bioengineering center based at UC San Francisco. Known as the Center for Cellular Construction, the new initiative aims to transform the field of cell biology into a quantitative discipline and to adapt tools from engineering, the physical sciences, and computer science to design automated machines out of living cells.

Read more about BBC Faculty to head up new NSF funded Bioengineering Center

Our PUBS course students published a paper!

September 29, 2016

Yeast in a class of their own: Our graduate students report how genetics and chemical stresses interact to affect the fitness of yeast cells. Read more: https://medium.com/lifes-building-blocks/yeast-in-a-class-of-their-own-4...

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Honors & awards

Peter Walter

Breakthrough Prize in Life Science

2017
Bo Huang

Byers Award in Basic Science

2017
Charles S. Craik

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2017

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