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DOE Program Managers Visit Phage Foundry Facilities at Berkeley Lab
On Tuesday, October 1, Department of Energy (DOE) program managers visited Phage Foundry facilities at Berkeley Lab. The visit was led by principal investigator, Vivek Mutalik, and co-investigators Jamie Inman, Adam Deutschbauer, Hans Carlson, Harshini Mukundan, and Brady Cress (UC Berkeley). Program managers met team members including Denish Piya (project scientist, Mutalik Lab), Ryan Melnyk…
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Phage Foundry Participates in the 2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Apprentice Program (BLDAP)
By Madeline Svab and Isabella Murray Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, exist in every place on earth where bacteria live. Since bacteria are so numerous on the planet, phages can be isolated from nearly anywhere—even student’s samples from outdoor spaces in their local community. This is precisely what a cohort of 21 high school students…
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2024 Genomic Science Program and Enabling Capabilities and Resources Principal Investigator Meetings
Vivek Mutalik, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, lead investigator of the Phage Foundry, and Brady Cress, University of California, Berkeley, co-investigator, and Denish Piya, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, project scientist, attended the DOE BSSD 2024 Genomic Science Program and Enabling Capabilities and Resources Principal Investigator Meetings on April 2-4, 2024, in Maryland.