Sunny Jiang, chairwoman of UC Irvine’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, said the plan shows Poseidon is working toward making the plant more environmentally sustainable.
The UC Irvine Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering invites applicants for a project scientist in the Gorodetsky Group, at the assistant or associate level. The position requires a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, materials science, molecular and cellular biology, polymer chemistry or related fields. There are multiple openings for applicants with expertise in cell biology, cellular engineering and bioelectronics, broadly defined.
Lab-on-a-chip devices have been pursued for decades as smaller, cheaper and portable alternatives to manually doing routine biochemistry with clunky glassware. While some biochemical experiments have been miniaturised … most of these devices require much more equipment than just a chip. “You could hold the chip in your hand, and everything would be happening on that chip, but if you zoomed out, you would see a refrigerator-sized box that is controlling it.