News
4/12/25
Michaela Gives CCBC Talk at ASBMB in Chicago: Considering Bioenergetics in Engineering for Bioenergy.
4/11/25
Abigail presents her poster at MSU 2025-UURAF: Purification of the bacterial microcompartment H-protein by using a novel heat-treatment procedure.
2/24/25
Kyleigh Gives Talk at Molecular Foundry: A Chaotrope-based Approach for Rapid In Vitro Assembly and Loading of Bacterial Microcompartment Shells.
1/8-10/25
CCBC Holds its annual in person All-Hands meeting at Argonne National Lab with special guest speaker Niall M. Mangan
11/26/24
Our paper about cofactor recycling in BMCs is out in PNAS!
Electrochemical cofactor recycling of bacterial microcompartments
Markus Sutter, Lisa M. Utschig, Jens Niklas, Sathi Paul, Darren N. Kahan, Sayan Gupta, Oleg G. Poluektov, Bryan H. Ferlez, Nicholas M. Tefft , Michaela A. TerAvest, David P. Hickey, Josh V. Vermaas , Corie Y. Ralston, and Cheryl A. Kerfeld
9/16/24
Josh Gives talk at CINT Annual User Conference
Josh gives a talk on CCBC work at Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Annual User Conference in Santa Fe, NM "Atomically Resolved Fluxes Across Protein Shells in Photosynthesis and Beyond"
9/5/24
Michaela gives talk at BMB Fall Seminar
Michaela gives talk at Fall 2024 Colloquium Series"Engineering bacterial respiration for sustainable biotechnologies"
Saad and Neetu present at August ACS meeting
Saad and Neetu presented "Quantifying selective metabolite transport across the protein shell of bacterial microcompartments with molecular dynamics simulations" and "Tracking lipid interactions around the LH1-RC complex in purple bacteria through molecular simulations" at the Fall ACS Meeting in Denver, CO
8/28/24
Sam presents CCBC work at the Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions GRC
Sam presented CCBC work that also got the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
8/22/24
The CCBC welcomes Hessen Delegation to Berkeley Lab
A delegation from the German state of Hessen, among them the State Secretary of Science as well as presidents from Hessen Universities, visited Berkeley Lab and toured the Joint Genome Institute, Molecular Foundry and Advanced Light Source. They were also interested in hearing more about the organization of EFRCs in general and the CCBC in particular.
7/30/24
The CCBC Publishes In Vitro Encapsulation of Functionally Active Abiotic Photosensitizers Inside a Bacterial Microcompartment Shell in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
"Engineered BMC shells from Haliangium ochraceum were used to leverage confined photophysics of ruthenium photosensitizers. Methods were developed for encapsulation of abiotic molecules in vitro that underscore the promise of BMC shells as biological nanoreactors for photocatalysis."
"It was Determined that pores in bacterial microcompartment shell protein are similar, irrespective of their local environment within either shell or a tile within a larger sheet. Future research can use smaller planar tiles for follow on simulations for permeability. We estimate that this will reduce the cost of future research by about 20x. "
5/9/24
CCBC member Josh Vermaas gives talk at University of Illinois
4/6/24-4/13/24
CCBC Participates in MSU Science Festival
4/5/24
Yali Wang presents CCBC work at Office of International Scholars Showcase
3/25/24
CCBC Welcomes Sr. Investigator Kristin Parent
2/21/24
CCBC Member Lisa Utschig awarded Cornell College- Beta Omicron Distinguished Alumni Visitor
1/12/24
CCBC Holds its annual in person All-Hands meeting, in East Lansing at Michigan State University
9/19/23
CCBC Member Kyleigh Range wins 100-second Lightning Talk Challenge at 2023 DOE-EFCR Principal Investigators Meeting
9/18/23
Josh Vermaas Gives CCBC talk at University of Maryland
9/18/23
The CCBC contribution to the DOE EFRC Poetry of Science Art Contest won second place!
CCBC Sonnet
8/13-17/23
CCBC Member Saad Raza presents at Fall ACS Meeting
6/23/23
CCBC Member Lisa Utschig Mentors Junior Scientist for Association for Women in Science-Chicago Mentoring Circles
5/20/23
CCBC Participates in Girls Math and Science Day at Michigan State University
3/6/23
Josh Vermaas gives talk at Eastern Michigan University
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3/3/23
The CCBC held its All-hands kickoff meeting in Berkeley, at the Molecular Foundry, February 22-24!
12/15/22
The CCBC is featured in MSUTODAY:
Borrowing building blocks from bacteria to create a more sustainable future
Read more at:
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2022/new-doe-center-to-enable-more-sustainable-future
