Professors Jennifer Doudna (MCB) and Montgomery Slatkin (IB), were chosen for their distinguished research excellence by the Academic Senate, and will present public lectures as part of the Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures. Since 1912, these events have offered an opportunity to hear from the people who are transforming knowledge at Berkeley and in our world.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
March 17, 2015
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Dan Feldman has received a UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
Feldman will be honored at a ceremony on April 21st, at 5pm, in the Zellerbach Playhouse. This ceremony is open to the public.
March 10, 2015
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology and Bakar Fellow Andreas Martin is launching a search for small-molecule drugs to block the ability of cancer cells to rid themselves of proteins. Doing so would overwhelm the cells with excess baggage and kill them. A successful drug would also expose cancer cells to tumor-suppressor proteins, which prevent rampant division.
March 04, 2015
Watch the video: Jennifer Doudna and Lance Knobel have a discussion at the UnCharted 2014 Festival of Ideas.
March 04, 2015
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jamie H. D. Cate has found a way to increase the production of fuels and other chemicals from biomass fermented by yeast. Working through the Energy Biosciences Institute, Cate and a team of collaborators identified metabolic pathways in the fungus Neurospora crassa that are used to digest xylose, one of the most abundant sugars in hemicellulose.
March 04, 2015
Dr. Corey Goodman, former MCB Professor of Neurobiology, will be returning to UC Berkeley as an Adjunct Professor of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI). He will also be the speaker for the 2015 MCB Graduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 22.
March 03, 2015
The Cell & Developmental Biology Division will be holding their annual spring symposium on "Autophagy in cellular homeostasis, development, and disease" on Saturday, March 21, 2015.
March 03, 2015
Doudna's research group unlocks the key to how bacteria "steal" genetic information from viruses and other foreign invaders for use in their own immunological memory system. The paper in Nature is titled “Integrase-mediated spacer acquisition during CRISPR–Cas adaptive immunity.” The lead author is James Nuñez, a member of Doudna’s UC Berkeley research group.
February 24, 2015
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Helen Bateup and Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Polina Lishko were among the nine young UC Berkeley faculty members awarded the 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships -- coveted grants for scientists and scholars at the beginning of their academic careers.
February 10, 2015
Professor of Neurobiology David Schaffer, along with Irina Conboy, has received a QB3 Bridging the Gap Award from the Rogers Family Foundation.