The California Institute for Quantatitive Biosciences (QB3) unites physical and biological scientists and engineers at three UC campuses—Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz—with private industry collaborators to address biological problems. QB3 aims to harness the quantitative sciences to integrate our understanding of biological systems at all levels of complexity—from atoms and protein molecules to cells, tissues, organs, and the entire organism. QB3 scientists attack problems that have been simply unapproachable before, setting the stage for fundamental new discoveries, new products, and new technologies.
Founded in 1831 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) conducts unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines with key efforts in fundamental studies of the universe; quantitative biology; nanoscience; new energy systems and environmental solutions; and the use of integrated computing as a tool for discovery. It is organized into 17 scientific divisions and hosts four DOE national user facilities. Details on Berkeley Lab’s divisions and user facilities can be viewed here.
The Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis to enable genomic-scale/systems-based scientific approaches to DOE-relevant challenges in energy and the environment.