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Chamber being installed

ExFAB Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2025

In addition to hosting our scholars and summer school, after over a year of intensive planning, ExFAB’s first-of-its-kind anerobic chamber has been custom-fabricated and is being installed right now!

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Innovate and Elevate - Dr. Craig Hawker

ExFAB's Innovate and Elevate Lecture Series kicked off in style with a dynamic presentation by Dr. Craig Hawker at UCSB.

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Tech Edge - UCSB to Lead NSF-Funded Center on Exceptional Microorganism

A six-year, $22-million grant includes partners UC Riverside and Cal Poly Pomona. Together they will establish a first-of-its-kind Biofoundry.

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ExFAB at CSU Biotech

ExFAB Presents at CSU Biotech Conference

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Igor Grigoriev Seminar

Igor Grigoriev, Ph.D, the Fungal Genomics Program Lead at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, gives seminar at ExFAB.

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Scientists will eliminate bottlenecks to breakthroughs with a newly acquired synthetic biology robotics system

New instrumentation will make a transformational impact and unite everyone on campus who works on cells.

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LA Times Premieres Documentary of David Valetine's Research on DDT Dumping off the LA Coast

Documentary Premieres

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NSF Grants $22M for 'extreme' microbe lab collaboration

Pollution cleanup is one of many applications.

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