1. IBMC Celebrates Early Successes in 2025 2. July Blog Post 3. EBI Recharge Facility 4. EBI Business Incubator 5. Job Opportunities 6. Electrify Expo 7. Solar Farm Summit 8. Y Net News: Sun Rock Project Merges Architecture, Energy, and Environmental Design 9. Farm Talk: Research on Seaweed as a Cattle Feed Additive to Reduce Methane 10. Innovation News Network: Forging the future: How Elestor’s Hydrogen-Iron Flow Batteries Strengthen Europe’s Energy Resilience
11. LBNL: Super Set of Supernovae Suggests Dark Energy Surprise 12. Deltares: Pioneering Seaweed Harvest in the North Sea 13. UIUC: Report: ‘Future-proofing’ Crops will Require Urgent, Consistent Effort
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| IBMC Celebrates Early Successes in 2025 |
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| During the first six months, the International Bioeconomy & Macroalgae Center (IBMC) has made significant progress. In May 2025, IBMC hosted its inaugural workshop at UC Berkeley and publicly launched its official website Introduced a robust membership program and broadened our global partnership base and impact Created a new webinar series to promote engagement and knowledge exchange Submitted three patent applications demonstrating our commitment to research and innovation Secured NSF approval for Year 2 funding Successfully launched a pilot summer internship program, supporting our mission of outreach and education
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Alternative Supply Chains of Innovation |
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| EBI’s Executive Committee member David Zilberman has a released a new blog post titled “Alternative Supply Chains of Innovation,” where he discusses the different paths that ideas take to become real-world technologies, from academic discovery and entrepreneurial development to public investment and continuous improvement.
Read about the processes that drive successful innovation and discover how institutions like the EBI are helping to accelerate them. |
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Biological Divisional Services (BDS) is hiring a Director of Administration to oversee operations for the IB, MCB, and Neuro departments. This role manages key administrative areas including finance, HR, IT, communications, instruction, and student services. The Director collaborates with Berkeley Regional Services (BRS) to ensure effective support and leads strategic planning and departmental oversight through a team of managers. |
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Position available for Synthetic Biology Postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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The LLNL is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Synthetic Biology group in the Biosciences and Biotechnology Division. The researcher will work on synthetic biology approaches to recover critical metals from domestic feedstocks by identifying, engineering, and implementing novel proteins and genetic pathways. The role involves developing high-throughput assays, engineering genetic circuits in relevant microbes, and evaluating their performance in increasingly complex test beds. The candidate will design and execute research plans, analyze and publish results, present at scientific meetings, and contribute to technical reports. This full-time, on-site position offers opportunities for independent research and collaboration across disciplines. |
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Position available for Research Associate at the The University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) |
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The Research Associate will support research, technical assistance, outreach, and education activities for on-farm water and energy conservation and nutrient management on small-scale, diversified farms. The activities are focused in Fresno County, with additional outreach to Madera and Tulare Counties, and will also inform statewide small farms programming. Activities for this position are part of an applied research and extension program focused on both economic viability and environmental sustainability of small-scale production systems in a landscape where there is a complex food, water, energy, and climate nexus. Current research and technical assistance projects focus on water and energy conservation, irrigation scheduling, nutrient management, use of soil moisture sensors, evaluation of emerging technologies, compliance with groundwater regulation, and on-farm groundwater recharge. |
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Electrify Expo is North America’s largest electric vehicle festival filled with over 1 million square feet of the world’s top electric brands! Experience and drive electric cars & trucks, hybrids and PHEVs. Ride E-Bikes, E-Motorcycles, E-Scooters, E-Skateboards, & E-Watercraft. Enjoy great food, music, a huge kids zone, and learn about all things electric. |
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The Solar Farm Summit is a solar energy, land use and agrivoltaics conference and expo focused on ground-mounted solar development and dual-use projects co-locating solar power and agricultural production or advanced conservations practices, including pollinator habitat, as well as the redevelopment of marginal and brownfield land. Beyond ‘making a space’ and market for those attending our conference, the event aim is to begin an ever-present campaign to seed the marketplace of ideas far and wide. The event aims to prove solar, agriculture and conservation land uses are not in conflict and elevate the broader agrivoltaics conversation. The event offers specific opportunities for farmers who attend each Solar Farm Summit, but the highest objective is to win hearts and minds across the heartland and move hands to action until agrivoltaics is adopted on a planetary scale. |
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Y Net News: Sun Rock Project Merges Architecture, Energy, and Environmental Design
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Taiwan’s state-owned electricity company is constructing a building that is projected to create more energy than it consumes, called Sun Rock. Located in Taiwan’s industrial city of Chunghua, this revolutionary building design marks a breakthrough in architecture and energy. It includes a solar panel facade that spans more than 4,000 square meters and generates more energy than it consumes. |
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Farm Talk: Research on Seaweed as a Cattle Feed Additive to Reduce Methane |
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Researchers are exploring how feeding seaweed to cattle could reduce methane emissions while improving nutrition and weight gain. Current studies at Thompson Rivers University are analyzing local seaweed species to find effective, sustainable options. This growing field could help lower agriculture’s climate impact while boosting animal health and feed efficiency. |
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Innovation News Network: Forging the future: How Elestor’s Hydrogen-Iron Flow Batteries Strengthen Europe’s Energy Resilience |
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Dutch company Elestor is pioneering hydrogen-iron flow batteries to provide Europe with scalable, safe, and long-duration energy storage. Designed for grid resilience, these batteries use abundant, low-cost materials like iron and hydrogen to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and imported resources. Elestor’s technology is now being deployed at scale, boosting Europe’s energy independence, supporting renewable energy use, and strengthening grid reliability. |
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LBNL: Super Set of Supernovae Suggests Dark Energy Surprise |
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Scientists at Berkeley Lab and partners built the largest-ever dataset of Type Ia supernovae to study dark energy. Their analysis hints that dark energy may change over time — a finding that, if confirmed, could reshape our understanding of the universe. Next-generation telescopes will soon provide more data to test these exciting results. |
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| Deltares: Pioneering Seaweed Harvest in the North Sea |
| North Sea Farm 1 is testing if seaweed can help capture carbon and how much farming the North Sea can handle. Researchers are tracking seaweed growth, carbon absorption, and environmental impact. Supported by Amazon’s Climate Fund, the project also explores seaweed’s use in food, textiles, and wellness products. |
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| UIUC: Report: ‘Future-proofing’ Crops will Require Urgent, Consistent Effort |
| Professor Stephen Long, founding deputy director of the EBI, is working to make crops stronger against climate change by improving how they grow and use water. His team has found ways to help crops survive heat, drought, and floods, but more funding is needed to expand this work. Without action, rising temperatures could cause major crop losses and increase hunger and global instability. |
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