POSTDOCS
MCB Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award Recipients:
We are excited to announce the recipients of our annual MCB Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Awards! Each year, the department honors postdocs for research, leadership, and service excellence.
 David Morgens (Glausinger Lab) researches viral gene regulation in oncogenic herpesviruses. |
 Sankalp Shukla (Hurley Lab) aims to uncover how pathological tau aggregates escape from endolysosomes and how the ESCRT-III machinery prevents this process, providing essential insights to help stop the spread of tau-related diseases. |
 Akanksha Thawani (Nogales and Collins Labs) is investigating how retrotransposons move in the human genome using cryo-electron microscopy and biochemical approaches. She is interested in developing these insights into novel tools for programmable gene insertion in human cells. |
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 Xiaolin ‘Lindsay’ Huang (Dan Lab) – Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research |
 Mike Lange (Olzmann Lab) – American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) networking grant to sponsor the first Bay Area Lipidomics Meeting |
 Yuki Noguchi (He Lab) – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Overseas Research Fellowships |
 Roberta Peruzzo (Zoncu Lab) – American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| Sankalp Shukla (Hurley Lab) – Alzheimer's FastTrack Travel Award |
 Yekaterina Shulgina (Cate Lab) – Life Science Research Foundation Postdoc Fellowship |
| Akanksha Thawani (Nogales and Collins Labs) – 2024 STAT Wunderkind |
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GRADUATE STUDENTS
2024 MCB Lisa Eshun-Wilson Community Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice (DEIBJ):
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 MCB Lisa Eshun-Wilson Community Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice (DEIBJ)! This award acknowledges the exemplary commitment of MCB graduate students and postdocs to advancing DEIBJ initiatives within our community.
Dominik Aylard (PhD candidate, Robey Lab), Karina Bistrong (PhD candidate, Feller Lab), Mora B. Ogando (Postdoc, Adesnik Lab) and honoree Maria A. Torres-Colon (PhD candidate, Swinburne Lab).
Dominik Aylard
Karina Bistrong
Mora B. Ogando
Maria A. Torres-Colon
 Alexandra Haugan (Martik Lab) – NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award |
 Lillian Murphy (Bautista and Lumpkin Labs) – Society for Neuroscience Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP) Fellow |
 Izaiah Ornelas (Nuñez Lab) – Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) 2024 Gilliam Fellow |
 Sahim Wallace (Lareau Lab) – Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) 2024 Gilliam Fellow |
 Kevin Williams (Bautista Lab) – Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) 2024 Gilliam Fellow |
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
 Richard Ho (Hockemeyer Lab) – Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation in Cancer Biology at the 2024 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) |
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David Baker | Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Former MCB graduate student David Baker (MCB PhD 1989) shared in this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for computational protein design.” While at Berkeley, he conducted his doctoral dissertation research on protein transport and protein trafficking in yeast in the lab of Professor Randy Schekman.
Read more about Baker's research and Nobel Prize
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