Lab Computing Group
Wins UCOP Award

Berkeley Lab's Scientific Cluster Support (SCS) program, housed within the Information Technology (IT) Division, was awarded the Larry L. Sautter Silver Award for Innovation in Information Technology by the University of California Office of the President. The award, presented at yesterday's annual UC Computing Services Conference in San Francisco, recognizes SCS for its achievement in university computing. SCS's project director Tammy Welcome and project lead Gary Jung also presented a talk on the program to spur collaboration with UC partners at the conference. SCS is designed to increase the contribution of scientific computing in Lab research projects by facilitating the use of high performance Linux clusters.

Injured Engineering
Analyst Thanks Lab

Rebrovich

Lisa Rebrovich, a principal resource analyst in the Lab's Engineering Division who was seriously hurt in an automobile accident on May 23 (see June 3 Today at Berkeley Lab) continues to recover. She lost her husband in the accident and their two daughters were injured. In a recent e-mail message, Rebrovich expressed her appreciation to Lab colleagues who have shared their concern and support. Go here to read the entire note.

Arkin

Exploiting HIV's 'Noisy'
Genetics to Tame Virus

A novel strategy for taming AIDS infections has emerged from a new look at the way the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) evades current treatments. When HIV infects an immune system T cell, the virus can take over the T cell and produce hordes of copies, or HIV can go into hibernation in the chromosomes — a disaster waiting to happen. A new study shows that these outcomes are decided by random occurrences emerging from a "noisy" genetic circuitry. "HIV and other viruses have learned to exploit the noise in the gene expression circuitry as a survival strategy," said study co-author Adam Arkin, a physical bioscientist at Berkeley Lab. Full story.

Undergrad Poster
Session Today

The Lab's Center for Science and Engineering Education will today hold its annual Undergraduate Student Poster Session from 3 to 5 p.m. in the cafeteria. The session highlights the breadth of research conducted at the Lab through the learning experiences of these students. Refreshments will be served.