Read the New York Times profile of Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jennifer Doudna. Well before the discovery of Crispr-CAS9, Doudna was already performing innovative RNA-related research.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
The Chau Hoi Shuen Foundation Women in Science Program, is now supporting Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Lin He, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Kunxin Luo, and one other woman faculty for collaborations with Chinese women scientists.
Affiliate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Daniel Fletcher pioneers a new smartphone microscope that uses video to automatically detect and quantify infection by parasitic worms in a drop of blood. Watch the video!
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."
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.