President Barack Obama welcomed the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to the White House, including MCB Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Hillel Adesnik.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
May 26, 2016
Thornton Thompson, an MCB graduate student in the Raulet Lab, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31), awarded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. His project title is "Role and Regulation of NKG2D Ligand Expression on Tumor-Infiltrating Myeloid Cells."
May 23, 2016
MCB and Chemistry Professor Michael Marletta has been elected as a new member of the American Philosophical Society. The society was founded in Philadelphia in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge” in the sciences and humanities -- an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation, it was the first established learned society in the U.S.
May 23, 2016
By devising fluorescent probes to track the presence and movement of copper atoms in and out of nerve cells, MCB and Chemistry Professor Chris Chang has shown that changes in concentration of this element at the synapse can switch on or off signaling between neurons.
May 20, 2016
A new postdoc in the Thorner Lab, Dr. Anita Emmerstorfer-Augustin, received a prestigíous two-year Erwin Schroedinger Fellowship from the Austrian Science Foundation.
May 19, 2016
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Helen Bateup and Assistant Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis Kaoru Saijo are recipients of the 2016-2017 Hellman Fellows Fund. It was instituted to support the research of Assistant Professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research.
May 17, 2016
MCB neurobiologist, senior lecturer and author David E. Presti discusses his new book "Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey." 7pm on May 19th, Books, Inc., Berkeley. Free lecture -- open to the public.
May 13, 2016
UC Berkeley experts in electron microscopy have learned in detail how proteins orchestrate the first key steps in gene activation – opening up the double-stranded DNA. MCB Professor Eva Nogales, who led the new study, aims to further explore the interactions between these key proteins and DNA.
May 12, 2016
HHMI Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Andrew Dillin, Johan Auwerx of EPFL, Switzerland, and teams of international and UC Berkeley researchers have discovered epigenetic switches in worms that are also linked to increased lifespan in mammals. The two resulting papers will be reported in the May 19th issue of Cell and are available online.
May 11, 2016
Erica Pederson was a much loved and truly dedicated member of the DNA Sequencing Facility Team. It is with the greatest sadness that we report that Erica passed away on May 1, 2016, after a brief, but a brave, battle with cancer.