The magazine "Citizens of Humanity" has recently published a feature on Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Robert Tjian. Read about how "Tjian’s personality bucks most of the stereotypes about scientists."
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
Howard Hughes Investigator and Chancellor's Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology John Kuriyan has been named a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute scientist Hillel Adesnik and his team are attempting to deconstruct the brain by analyzing small circuits and even single neurons.
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Eva Nogales and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jeremy Thorner have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Professor of Neurobiolgy, Director of the Berkeley Stem Cell Center, and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, David Schaffer, is using common, benign viruses to deliver healthy genes to defective cells.
Howard Hughes Investigator and Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Carlos Bustamante has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences along with five other UC Berkeley faculty.
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Christopher Chang, and Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Michelle Chang, along with their colleague Peidon Yang, have made a potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis.
Time Magazine has just named Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jennifer Doudna as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2015. She and Emmanuelle Charpentier were recognized for their discovery of using CRISPR-Cas9 to remove or add genetic material at will.
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis Kaoru Saijo has been named a 2015 Searle Scholar along with 14 other talented young scientists from institutions all over the United States.
Professor (Affiliated) of Genetics, Genomics and Development Steve Brenner heads up a portion of a five-year research program that may deeply influence how states use a heel prick, the first step in newborn screening. Most state public health departments check the infant’s blood after the first day of life to see if something is dangerously wrong. However, as genome sequencing becomes faster and cheaper, the push is on to unravel a baby’s entire DNA code instead.