Professor Jeffery Winer has been selected as a recipient of the 2007 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs. This award recognizes faculty who have provided GSIs outstanding mentorship in teaching at Berkeley. Professor Winer was selected for the award based on nominations submitted by GSIs from MCB.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
March 28, 2007
Professor Caroline Kane has been selected as recipient of the 2007
Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence.
Professor Kane is among four distinguished recipients of this award from
across the campus.
March 16, 2007
MCB Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental
Biology Michael Rape has been awarded the Kimmel Scholars Award. This award provides $100,000 per year
for two years for young investigators engaged in cancer-related research.
For more information see http://www.kimmel.org/About41.html
March 02, 2007
To faculty, postdocs and students in MCB:
On Tuesday March 27 the Division of Cell and Development Biology and the UCB Stem Cell Center will be co-sponsoring a one-day symposium on "Frontiers in Tumor Biology".
We have a great lineup of speakers and you can download a pdf poster advertising the meeting here.
February 26, 2007
MCB graduate students Carolyn Phillips and Gianna Hammer have received the 2007 Harold M. Weintraub award.
Gianna completed her Ph.D. in the Fall semester in the Nilabh Shastri lab working on antigen processing in the endoplasmic reticulum. Carolyn will complete her Ph.D this semester in the Dernburg lab working on understanding fundamental mechanisms of chromosome segregation.
January 25, 2007
Biological Sciences Launches Post Grad Career Site
Located under the new Career Management tab on the MCB home page is a new resource for biomedical post grads. It includes a Jobs
September 22, 2006
Cell & Developmental Biology Professor Rebecca Heald has been awarded one of thirteen 2006 NIH Pioneer Awards, which provides $2.5 million over five years to support "high-risk" research.
More Information
September 14, 2006
The Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute, with participation from MCB and other departments, is currently recruiting for two faculty positions. Details are available here.
August 03, 2006
Former MCB Graduate Student Dr. Tracy Johnson has been selected as a 2005 recipient of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Dr. Johnson received her Ph.D. from the MCB Department in 1996 after completing her thesis research on RNA binding to RNA Polymerase II in Professor Michael Chamberlain's lab. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego.
For more information view the
Press Release
May 17, 2006
The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology is sponsoring a symposium to honor the contributions of Professor Nicholas R. Cozzarelli on Saturday, June 10 in 100 GPBT.
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