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ICB Researcher Hyongsok “Tom” Soh, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Materials in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering, is one of only two recipients nationwide of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in engineering.

On Friday, March 19, 2010 the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies and the Institute for Energy Efficiency will be hosting a joint seminar by Prof. Michael Graetzel, Director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces (LPI) at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Prof. Graetzel is a world-renowned leader in the field of photovoltaics and next generation solar cells.  

The Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) Summer Research Internship in Science and Engineering at UCSB brings science and engineering majors from all over the country to UCSB for a summer research experience. [Learn more] Application deadline is February 2, 2010. [Apply now] Adobe Reader is required to view the Application.

UC Santa Barbara prides itself on strong interactive research efforts that focus on materials and computational research in biology, engineering, chemistry and physics. The depth and strength of UC Santa Barbara’s bioengineering achievements have led to the genesis of a Bioengineering effort which ranked 2nd in the nation in Faculty Scholarly Productivity by the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2007.

May 14, 2009 4:00pm/refreshments at 3:45pm 1302 Marine Science Research Building The strikingly colorful world of insects is in large part the result of optical interference produced by the interaction of light with precisely ordered, periodic cuticular structures, incorporated into their exoskeletons. Such structural colors have recently gained tremendous interest for the use as photonic band gap crystals with enormous potential for next-generation energy and information technology concepts.

PROF. LARRY GOLD April 9th, 2009 4:00pm/ Refreshments at 3:45pm 1601 Elings Hall Classic aptamers were invented in 1989-1990. In the next twenty years the process of identifying aptamers was improved substantially - today non-classic aptamers (called SLaptamers) make possible some applications that cannot be achieved with monoclonal antibodies (or other antibody mimics).

The Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) Summer Research Internship in Science and Engineering at UCSB brings science and engineering majors from all over the country to UCSB for a summer research experience. Application deadline is March 2, 2009. Please visit Adobe.com to download a copy of Adobe Reader which is required to view the application.

Four researchers from the UC Santa Barbara-led Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) are undertaking important studies in a new, national $85 million program in the nascent field of regenerative medicine to develop new treatments for wounded soldiers.

Insulin Resistance Pathways Project is New Model of Collaborative Research, with Teams from Multiple Universities and Companies Tackling Single Problem

Research sponsored through the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies is completely unclassified, and is conducted in an open and fundamental research environment. ICB research results are widely and openly disseminated via publication in the scientific and popular literature without restrictions of any kind. No weapons research is conducted by the ICB.