Professor John Kuriyan has been awarded the 2005 Richard Lounsbery Award by the National Acadamy of Sciences.
For more information see:
National Academies Press Release
Richard Lounsbery Award Site
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
January 25, 2005
January 11, 2005
Professor Douglas Melton from Harvard University will present the 2005 Choh Hao Li Lecture series on January 19 and 20 at 4:00 in the Cox Auditorium (100 GPBB).
December 21, 2004
Nestled inside the human genome, there may be another secret code waiting to be deciphered. The human genome is now thought to contain 22,000 or so genes that code for proteins, the building blocks of life. But how are such a small number of genes programmed to embark on widely different paths of development?
December 07, 2004
Professor John Forte has been selected as a recipient of the 2003-2004 Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Research Excellence for the prevention & non-invasive therapy of gastrointestinal disorders.
Please visit the Sheikh Hamdan site for additional information about the award.
December 03, 2004
A pressure cooker with windows? That was the basic idea behind the bubble chamber, a powerful instrument for the study of atomic particles that led to a 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for its inventor, UC Berkeley professor Donald Glaser.
November 15, 2004
UC Berkeley has been ranked as the second best University in the world in a survey by the Times Higher Education Supplement, a remarkable achievement for a public university.
The complete ranking are available at http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/
November 05, 2004
Crammed inside every human cell are numerous strands of chromosomal DNA that, if laid end-to-end, would span a distance of about two meters. A special enzyme mechanically untangles the DNA, keeping our chromosomes from resembling a string of Christmas tree lights jammed into a box after the holiday. Someday, biochemist James Berger's efforts to understand the same enzyme in cancer cells could lead to new tumor-fighting drugs.
November 01, 2004
Assistant Professor Lu Chen has been awarded the prestigeous Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
For more information see:
November 01, 2004
October 26, 2004
Professor Hiroshi Nikaido will present this year's Roger Y. Stanier Memorial Lecture on Thursday November 4 in 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building.