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\ \ CBA News & Notes

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July 10, 2020

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• We hope that you and your friends, family, and colleagues remain safe. Along with our work on the immediate pandemic response:\ \

https://gitlab.cba.mit.edu/pub/coronavirus/tracking\

\ and support for MIT's commitment to addressing systemic racism:\ \

http://news.mit.edu/2020/letter-systemic-racism-mit-0701\

\ we're pleased to be returning to the lab for research as part of MIT's research ramp-up:\ \

https://covid19.mit.edu/\

\ - CBA is co-hosting two upcoming online events that are open for registration. One is the annual gathering of the fab lab network, focusing on its contribution to the pandemic recovery:\ \

<https://fabxlive.fabevent.org/>\

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and the second one follows the event we hosted at MIT last year on interspecies communication:\
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<http://interspecies.io/>\

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- Congratulations to CBA alum Nadya Peek on being selected as a TR35 innovator:\
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  <https://www.innovatorsunder35.com/the-list/nadya-peek/>\

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  to alum Sam Calisch on being selected as a Cyclotron Road Fellow:\
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  <https://www.activate.org/elmworks>\

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  and to alum Josh Smith on being selected as an IEEE Fellow:\
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  <https://cba.mit.edu/l/jsuwie>

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  - We're delighted to report that our work on morphing aerostructures was recognized as one of MIT's top stories last year:\
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    <http://news.mit.edu/2020/top-mit-research-stories-of-2019-0103>\

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    - CBA teams significantly expanded the range of genome editing:\
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      <http://news.mit.edu/2020/nature-inspired-crispr-enzymes-expansive-genome-editing-0519>\

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      found promising peptide targets for COVID-19:\
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      <http://news.mit.edu/2020/peptide-binds-covid-19-proteins-0622>\

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      and contributed microfluidics to the realization of single-electron transfer reactions:\
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      <https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6497/1352.abstract>

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      - Here are videos on CBA work on the pandemic response:\
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        <https://makezine.com/2020/04/25/join-us-for-a-live-panel-with-neil-gershenfeld-and-fab-labs-this-tuesday/>\

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        on autonomy:\
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        <https://ilp.mit.edu/watch/2020-autonomy-day-4-neil-gershenfeld>\

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        on innovation:\
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        <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMbTZwe7TCk>\

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        and on space fabrication:\
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        <http://computational-geometry.org/SoCG-videos/socg20video/Space_1280.mp4>\

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        - Just before the pandemic shutdown a CBA team deployed a super fab lab in Kerala (India), aimed at providing regional capacity to produce fab labs:\
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          <https://telanganatoday.com/indias-first-super-fab-lab-inaugurated-by-kerala-cm>\

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          - CBA teams have received new research awards from DARPA, to develop particle systems for multiphysics modeling:\
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            <https://www.darpa.mil/program/computable-models>\

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            and from NIST, for work with the Materials Genome Initiative on machines that measure material models:\
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            <https://www.nist.gov/mgi>\

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            - CBA patents have issued for self-assembling assemblers:\
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              <https://cba.mit.edu/l/10625424>

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              production of composite parts:\
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              <https://cba.mit.edu/l/10576701>

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              and discretely assembled logic blocks:\
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              <https://cba.mit.edu/l/10498342>

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