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ExFAB's Innovate and Elevate Lecture Series kicked off in style with a fantastic talk by Dr. Craig Hawker, who shared his deep experience with translating academic innovation with over 50 attendees at UCSB and 10 more via Zoom! Dr. Hawker has over 80 U.S. patents that have supported the formation of 10 startups. He is also the co-inventor/co-founder of Olaplex.

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

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

ExFAB Presents at CSU Biotech Conference

Documentary Premieres 

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.

This week, 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), a collaboration led by UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), together with UC Riverside (UCR), and Cal Poly Pomona (CPP).

Pollution cleanup is one of many applications 

New instrumentation will make a transformational impact and unite everyone on campus who works on cells. It enables researchers to think in a new dimension, to design and execute large-scale experiments that push our limits of scientific understanding and develop technology in ways that were not possible before.