MCB Professor Eva Nogales has been given the distinguished honor of presenting the ASCB Keith Porter Lecture this December in San Francisco. The last MCB professor to give this talk was Randy Schekman back in 2005. Well deserved, Professor Nogales!
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
MCB Professors Kathy Collins and James Hurley have been named 2016-2017 Bakar Program Fellows. Collins' fellowship is in the category Biotechnology and Health, and her project is titled "New Reverse Transcriptase Technologies", and Hurley's fellowship is in the Neuroscience category, entitled "Activating Autophagy to Fight Neurodegeneration."
July 29, 2016
Sarah Hamilton joins the MCB Graduate Affairs Office just in time for the beginning of the new academic year. Next time you drop by the Graduate Student Services Office in the LSA, be sure to say "hi!"
July 27, 2016
MCB Professor Jamie Cate's lab has "found a promising new drug target within that pathway that is appealing, in part, because it appears to control production of only a few percent of the body’s many proteins, those critical to regulating the growth and proliferation of cells."
July 27, 2016
Have you seen the latest edition of the MCB Transcript? Learn what we've been up to from pioneering immunotherapeutics and vaccine research to global health initiatives. And read about our students and alumni, and watch some fun videos too!
July 25, 2016
What's so great about choanoflagellates? MCB Professor Nicole King explains and reveals why she has dedicated her research career to figuring out how the first multicellular animal life came to be.
July 19, 2016
MCB Assistant Professor Craig Miller and collaborators have found evidence that the very first bony fish on Earth was susceptible to arthritis. This basic research may help approaches in therapeutic research related to arthritis.
July 15, 2016
In their paper in Current Biology, MCB Professor Marla Feller and her collaborators show that visual experience is necessary for populations of Direction Selective Ganglion Cells (DSGCs) to become tuned to movement along the cardinal axes.
July 13, 2016
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Stephen Brohawn and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology Evan Miller are recipients of Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences.
July 12, 2016
Listen to a podcast, hosted by the Journal of Immunology, where Professor David H. Raulet discusses the importance of fundamental research. It highlights how some clinical therapies for cancer have emerged from basic science, performed decades previously, that had no obvious connection to cancer at the time it was published.
Listen to the podcast here.
July 11, 2016
G. Steven Martin has retired and now Michael Botchan is serving as Interim Dean of Biological Sciences. Our MCB Co-Chairs have had a "changing of the guard" as well -- David Raulet and Richard Harland have handed the reigns over to David Drubin and Nipam Patel. Richard Harland will now serve as Senior Associate Dean of Biological Sciences.
July 05, 2016
Watch the shared ceremony with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, the Biophysics Graduate Group, the Endocrinology Graduate Group and the Computational Biology Graduate Group. Congratulations to all the graduates!
June 28, 2016
Berkeley's Cancer Research Lab, in close collaboration with the Cancer Research Institute, highlights June as Cancer Immunotherapy Month. "As we appreciate these events during this month, it is remarkable to reflect on how the cancer immunotherapy revolution had its roots in basic science done here in the CRL at Berkeley."
June 22, 2016
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