Congratulations to MCB Associate Professor Elçin Ünal on receiving the 2020 Sabri Ülker Science Award!
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
October 26, 2020
October 19, 2020
It is with great sadness we report the passing of our colleague Richard Calendar, Ph.D., who was Professor of Molecular Biology (1968-1989) and, after our reorganization of the biological sciences, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology (1989-2009), and, then, a Professor of the Graduate School (2009-2020), here at the University of California, Berkeley.
October 19, 2020
We are pleased to announce the addition of a new MCB Professor, Doris Tsao, arriving in July 2021.
October 15, 2020
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dipti Nayak on receiving a 2020 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering.
October 12, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Carlos Bustamante on his 2021 Biophysical Society Kazuhiko Kinosita Award!
October 08, 2020
Congratuations to MCB Lecturer Robin Ball for receiving a UC Berkeley 2020 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors!
October 07, 2020
MCB Professor Kathleen Collins has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award, which supports exceptionally creative scientists proposing pioneering approaches.
October 07, 2020
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded MCB Professor Jennifer Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for development of a method for genome editing."
October 06, 2020
Congratulations to Associate Professor Polina Lishko on being named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow!
October 05, 2020
MCB Assistant Professor Andrea Gomez has been awarded a 2020 Young Investigator Grant from The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.