John Chernowski, who has spent 22 years at Berkeley Lab in a number of positions, has recently taken over as Senior Manager, Transportation and Parking Demand after spending six months as the interim transportation manager. At the Lab, the transportation manager is responsible for, among other matters, parking and shuttle services and the challenges they bring. In our Three Questions … [Read more...]
Three Questions For JGI Director Nigel Mouncey
The Integrative Genomics Building -- which will be the new home of the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and DOE’s Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) -- will be dedicated Wednesday in an invitation-only ceremony at the Lab. Move-in is scheduled to begin in September. JGI was established as a national user facility by the Department of Energy in 1997, bringing together the DNA sequencing, … [Read more...]
Three Questions For KBase’s Elisha Wood-Charlson
The Integrative Genomics Building -- which soon will be the new home of DOE’s Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) -- will be dedicated Wednesday in an invitation-only ceremony at the Lab. Move-in is scheduled to begin in September. KBase was established in 2011 to provide an open computational environment that allows the scientific community to bring data … [Read more...]
Three Questions For Herbert Steiner About the Bevatron
The Integrative Genomics Building -- the new home of the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and DOE’s Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) -- will be dedicated June 19 in an invitation-only ceremony at the Lab. Move-in is scheduled to begin in September. But the IGB is not the first signature Lab research facility to sit on that location. Historically the site housed the Bevatron, a particle … [Read more...]
Three Questions for Steve Filippoff About Work on Buildings 50A and 50B
Wondering why there’s scaffolding and shrouding around the west end of Buildings 50A and 50B? As part of our “Three Questions For” series, we checked in with the project's manager, Steve Filippoff of the Lab’s Project and Infrastructure Modernization Division, to get the low-down on what is known as "The Pergola Project.” Can you describe the work being done on these two buildings? As part … [Read more...]