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.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
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.
February 09, 2015
The campus celebrated the launch of the Innovative Genomics Initiative (IGI), a partnership between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco researchers and the biopharmaceutical industry to perfect new gene-editing techniques and apply them to drug development and global health in general.
February 04, 2015
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology David Weisblat has received the UC Berkeley Leon A. Henkin Citation for Distinguished Service, along with Professor Denise Herd of the School of Public Health.
January 28, 2015
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Eva Nogales has received the 2015 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award from The Protein Society. The award is granted in recognition of exceptional contributions in protein science which profoundly influence our understanding of biology.
From the Protein Society Website...
January 27, 2015
2013 Nobel Prize winner, Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Randy Schekman was selected to give the inaugural Capstone Seminar for the new BBS, CDB and GGD divisional seminar series. The video of his seminar is now available to view online.
January 23, 2015
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Nicholas Ingolia and Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Elçin Ünal have been named as two of six winners of the 2015 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award for early career scientists doing novel research into cancer.
December 19, 2014
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Roberto Zoncu, who was previously selected as a 2014 Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research, is the subject of a research profile by the Pew Charitable Trusts site.