ExFAB

Igor Grigoriev giving a lecture to students

Igor Grigoriev Seminar

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

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.

Out of Sight Movie poster featuring a man wearing a hard hat out at sea.

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

Documentary Premieres

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

Pollution cleanup is one of many applications.

The ExFAB group standing together in a warehouse

UCSB to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes

The National Science Foundation announced the award of a six-year, $22M grant to UC Santa Barbara under its biofoundries program for the establishment of the BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (ExFAB).

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NSF invests in BioFoundries to drive advances across science and engineering

NSF announces an award to UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside and Cal Poly Pomona to establish the NSF Ex-FAB BioFoundry, to focus on extreme and exceptional microbes.