In their pursuit to better elucidate the functional circuits that comprise the neocortex, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Hillel Adesnik and his team made a possibly paradigm shifting discovery. They recently published their findings in Nature Neuroscience.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
October 23, 2015
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jennifer Doudna, who is also a biochemist with Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging (MBIB) division, has been at the forefront of unlocking CRISPR/Cas secrets — and her team has just unlocked another!
October 20, 2015
Joshua Levitz, a recent Biophysics Graduate Program PhD from Professor Ehud Isacoff's Lab in the MCB Department of at the University of California, Berkeley, has been recognized by the Society for Neuroscience with the 2015 Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience.
October 20, 2015
MCB Professors Ehud Isacoff, Kristin Scott, and Hillel Adesnik were awarded $2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create and validate novel tools to measure neuronal activity, connectivity, and synaptic strength in defined neuron types.
October 16, 2015
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Kathy Collins, in collaboration with researchers at UCLA, has produced the clearest image of telomerase to date. This enzyme plays a significant role in aging and most cancers, but until recently many aspects of the enzyme’s structure could not be clearly seen.
October 15, 2015
October 07, 2015
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Gloria Brar was one of only 41 faculty in the nation to receive the prestigious NIH Director's 2015 New Innovator Award. The project she'll be working on is "Dissecting the Roles of Pervasive Short ORFs in Meiosis."
October 07, 2015
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jennifer Doudna, who invented a gene-editing tool that has taken the research world by storm, was named one of five laureates of the 2016 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Awards in the field of life sciences.
October 07, 2015
Listen to the BBC Natural Histories Radio Feature "Anenome" that features Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Daniel Rokhsar. The show highlights how Rokhsar and his team conducted the first analysis of the genome of the sea anemone, which revealed it to be nearly as complex as the human genome.
October 02, 2015
The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology is soliciting applications for a faculty position in Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the level of Assistant Professor (tenure track). We seek applicants studying how communication within and between cells supports physiological function and enables cells, tissues, and organisms to respond to changes in their environment and maintain homeostasis.