Department News

Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.

Fisher receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award

October 06, 2022

Yvette Fisher, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, is a recipient of an NIH Director's New Innovator Award for her project “How Does Neuromodulation Shape the Fluidity of Spatial Working Memory?” The award was established in 2007 to support unusually innovative research from early career investigators.

Carolyn Bertozzi receives Nobel Prize in chemistry

October 05, 2022

Carolyn Bertozzi Nobel Former MCB faculty and UC Berkeley alumna Carolyn Bertozzi has received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.

2022 MCB Outstanding Postdoc Awards

October 03, 2022

2022 Outstanding Postdoc Awards We are excited to announce the recipients of our annual MCB Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Awards! Each year, the department honors five postdocs (one in each division) for excellence in research, leadership, and service.

We're Hiring | Assistant Professor for MCB and EECS

September 15, 2022

Asst Teaching Prof Interested in becoming a UC Berkeley faculty member? We are now accepting applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor - Artificial Intelligence & Cancer Biology. The positions are joint between MCB and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

We're Hiring | Assistant Teaching Professors for MCB and IB

September 15, 2022

Asst Teaching Profs Interested in becoming a UC Berkeley faculty member? We are now accepting applications for two Assistant Teaching Professors - Organismal and Evolutionary Biology + Molecular & Quantitative Biology. The positions are joint between MCB and Integrative Biology.

Heald receives ASCB Sandra K. Masur Senior Leadership Award

September 01, 2022

Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology Rebecca Heald received the Sandra K. Masur Senior Leadership Award from the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).

In memoriam | Aurora Trapane

August 30, 2022

By Donald Rio
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology

Fisher receives Brain Research Foundation 2022 Seed Grant

August 30, 2022

Yvette Fisher, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, has received a 2022 Seed Grant from the Brain Research Foundation (BRF). The objective of the BRF Seed Grant Program is to support new and innovative projects, especially those of junior faculty, who are working in new research directions in the field of neuroscience.