In a collaboration between Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Janelia Research Campus of HHMI, and the University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, Xavier Darzacq will lead the Berkeley component of a large NIH grant they have received. Using specifically adapted powerful microscopes, the researchers hope to peer into living cells and reveal mechanisms that turn genes on and off in real time.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
November 02, 2015
In a collaborative study, including researchers from USC and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Adjunct Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Gary Karpen, helped to find a new function of the nuclear membrane — it fixes potentially fatal breaks in DNA strands. This study could lead to a better understanding of how and why organisms become more predisposed to cancer with age.
October 29, 2015
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Evan Miller, who is also faculty in the Department of Chemistry, recently received the Young Chemical Biologist Award from the International Chemical Biology Society at their annual meeting in Berlin. At the same meeting, he was a featured speaker in their "Rising Stars in Chemical Biology" session.
October 26, 2015
In their pursuit to better elucidate the functional circuits that comprise the neocortex, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Hillel Adesnik and his team made a possibly paradigm shifting discovery. They recently published their findings in Nature Neuroscience.
October 23, 2015
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jennifer Doudna, who is also a biochemist with Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging (MBIB) division, has been at the forefront of unlocking CRISPR/Cas secrets — and her team has just unlocked another!
October 20, 2015
Joshua Levitz, a recent Biophysics Graduate Program PhD from Professor Ehud Isacoff's Lab in the MCB Department of at the University of California, Berkeley, has been recognized by the Society for Neuroscience with the 2015 Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience.
October 20, 2015
MCB Professors Ehud Isacoff, Kristin Scott, and Hillel Adesnik were awarded $2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create and validate novel tools to measure neuronal activity, connectivity, and synaptic strength in defined neuron types.
October 16, 2015
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Kathy Collins, in collaboration with researchers at UCLA, has produced the clearest image of telomerase to date. This enzyme plays a significant role in aging and most cancers, but until recently many aspects of the enzyme’s structure could not be clearly seen.
October 15, 2015
October 07, 2015
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Gloria Brar was one of only 41 faculty in the nation to receive the prestigious NIH Director's 2015 New Innovator Award. The project she'll be working on is "Dissecting the Roles of Pervasive Short ORFs in Meiosis."