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Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
December 20, 2017
HHMI Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Nicole King is one of four UC Berkeley faculty who received a 2018-2019 Miller Professorship Award, allowing her a year to pursue new research directions.
December 13, 2017
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December 12, 2017
Edward E. Penhoet Distinguished Chair in Global Public Health and Infectious Diseases and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Daniel Portnoy has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
November 27, 2017
Professor of Neurobiology Richard Kramer is one of four innovative scientists and physicians to be named a 2017 Gund-Harrington Scholar for research having the potential to advance medical therapies for those suffering from retinal degenerative diseases.
November 26, 2017
MCB Professor Jeffery Cox has collaborated with researchers at UCSF and UCSD to study and map the convoluted networks among proteins and genes in the body. The new research on how these networks facilitate interaction on the cellular level could lead to more precise treatments for a variety of diseases, from psychiatric disorders to cancer.
November 21, 2017
MCB Professor Marla Feller has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for “advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.” She is one of six UC Berkeley faculty to be honored with this fellowship this year.
November 20, 2017
MCB graduate student Nicole Haloupek, and MCB alumna Jeannette Tenthorey, are co-lead authors on a groundbreaking new study published in Science last week. The new research sheds light on the mechanism in which the immune system detects and attacks invading bacteria, and builds upon our fundamental understanding of how the immune system functions.
November 15, 2017
MCB graduate student Armbien Sabillo received a Student Presentation Award for his excellent work, titled “A Novel Role for the Neural Plate during X. Laevis Muscle Formation,” at the 2017 SACNAS Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
November 15, 2017
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Helen Bateup received the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award for demonstrating creativity and originality in her research on neural circuit function and autism.