In addition to serving as team lead for the IT Division’s Workstation Support Group, Campbell is passionately committed to education advocacy and has supported numerous mentoring programs, both at the Lab and in the local community. She herself started work at the Lab as a mentored undergrad 38 years ago. We checked in with Campbell to learn more about her devotion to supporting the next … [Read more...]
Three Questions For Lab Director Mike Witherell
We're all familiar with the Lab's leadership and its oversight relationships, including the University of California and the U.S. Department of Energy. You might not know that Berkeley Lab's director also has a high-level team of advisors. The Lab Advisory Board is made up of 15 distinguished scientific leaders from outside the Lab, appointed to renewable three-year terms by the UC President. … [Read more...]
Three Question For KBase’s Akiyo Marukawa
Akiyo has moved to the hill as part of the KBase relocation to the new Integrative Genomics Building (IGB). KBase, or the Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase, is a software and data platform designed to meet the grand challenge of systems biology: predicting and designing biological function. KBase integrates data and tools in a unified graphical interface which makes it easier for … [Read more...]
Three Questions For: Nicola Spaldin on Materials Sciences Shaping the Future
Dr. Nicola Spaldin, instrumental in developing the field of magnetic ferroelectrics, will be the featured speaker at the next event in the Director’s Women in Science Speaker Series. You can hear her lecture in person at the Lab on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 10 a.m. in the third-floor conference room of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB). Please bring your badge. The IGB is a badged building and … [Read more...]
Three Questions For JGI’s Georg Rath
Georg Rath joined Joint Genome Institute’s Data Science and Informatics Department in April as a software infrastructure architect after a stint as a High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems engineer at another Berkeley Lab user facility, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). His primary assignment is to find ways to have JGI’s software infrastructure, which has run in … [Read more...]