Rokhsar

Physical Biosciences researcher Dan Rokhsar will kick off Berkeley Lab’s 9th Annual Summer Lecture Series tomorrow with a talk titled, “Beyond the Human Genome: What’s Next?” The talk will take place from Noon to 1 p.m. in the Building 50 Auditorium. All employees and guests are welcome.

Bissell to Address
Friends of Science

Bissell

Life Sciences’ researcher and Distinguished Scientist Mina Bissell will address Berkeley Lab’s Friends of Science on Thursday, from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Widely recognized for uncovering the critical role in breast cancer development played by the extracellular matrix, Bissell is using a recent Innovator Award and funding from the Department of Defense to study ways to accelerate the eradication of breast cancer. The meeting will be held at Perseverance Hall and all employees are welcome. For more information contact the Community Relations office at 7292.

First image of lithium atoms

For the first time, researchers have used a transmission electron microscope -- the One Angstrom Microscope (OÅM) at the Lab’s National Center for Electron Microscopy -- to image lithium atoms. Only atoms of hydrogen and helium are smaller and lighter than lithium, which under ordinary conditions is not a gas but a soft, white metal. Yang Shao-Horn of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael O'Keefe of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division used the OÅM to simultaneously resolve columns of lithium, cobalt, and oxygen atoms in the compound lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO₂). They and their colleagues report their work in the July, 2003 issue of the journal Nature Materials. Full story.