An international team of scientists, co-led by Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Daniel Rokhsar, and scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and the University of Chicago, have revealed the secrets hidden in the genome of an octopus.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
August 07, 2015
The Department welcomes back Dr. Michael Marletta as Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology. Marletta's research lies at the interface of chemistry and biology with a particular emphasis on the study of protein function and enzyme reaction mechanisms and a focus on molecular answers to complex functions in biology.
August 06, 2015
The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology is thrilled to announce that Dr. Jeffery S. Cox will be joining the MCB faculty as a Professor of Immunology & Pathogenesis. Dr. Cox will hold a secondary affiliation with the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology.
August 05, 2015
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Eva Nogales and her research group have produced an atomic view of microtubules that enabled them to identify the crucial role played by a family of end-binding (EB) proteins in regulating microtubule dynamic instability.
July 30, 2015
It's a new era in genome engineering! A one-day symposium hosted by the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at Berkeley and the Innovative Genomics Initiative. The symposium is being held on August 24, 2015 at Li Ka Shing. Contact Jan Ambrosini with questions: ambros@berkeley.edu.
July 28, 2015
KQED Science asks Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Christopher Chang "How Do You Make Greener Fuel?" Chang's answer: it's a Frankenstein experiment -- if Frankenstein was solar power.
July 27, 2015
Andrew Lane, a UC Berkeley post-doctoral fellow, and Flora Lamson Hewlett Chair and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Rebecca Heald, developed a new technology in order to track chromosomes in real-time in living samples during mitosis.
July 09, 2015
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Stephan Lammel was recently awarded a seed grant from the Brain Research Foundation for his project "Identifying input-specific mechanisms underlying drug-evoked plasticity in the dopamine system."
June 30, 2015
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Christopher Chang has received the 2015 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. He's been honored for his discoveries in chemistry that span both neuroscience and energy science.
June 30, 2015
Read the recent Wall Street Journal article featuring Dr. Jennifer Doudna's Crispr-CAS9 research, Why Gene-Editing Technology Has Scientists Excited: Researchers explore the idea of treating disease by replacing defective genes.