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Professor Andrew Dillin will co-direct the Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging Research, a new integrated center for research on neurodegenerative diseases. Funded by $3 million from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, the center will pave the way for novel treatments for diseases linked to misfolded proteins and/or prions.
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Professor David Weisblat received the UC Berkeley Leon A. Henkin Citation for
Distinguished Service, which recognizes exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from underrepresented groups.
Professor Michael Levine received the Society of Developmental Biology’s 2015 Edwin G. Conklin Medal, which is for distinguished and sustained research in developmental biology.
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Assistant Professors Helen Bateup and Polina Lishko were among the nine UC Berkeley faculty members who received the 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships, which are awarded to young researchers whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars and the next generation of
scientific leaders.
Jaclyn Ho, Jennifer Cisson, Drew Friedmann, Wendy Ingram, Christopher Alvaro and Rebecca Lu
A new MCB Graduate Student Support Network provides peer support and guidance for MCB graduate students. The group holds events, and is constructing a website with peer-reviewed campus and community resources geared toward cultivating the emotional, physical, and mental well-being of MCB graduate students. For more information, contact mcb.grad.network (at) gmail.com.
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Professor Nipam Patel’s work on how butterflies can color their wings with pigmentless “structural color” was featured on KQED Science on December 16, 2014. Watch the video.
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UC Berkeley recruited MCB Professor Emeritus Edward Penhoet, who founded Chiron Corporation, as Associate Dean for Strategic Planning to help continue building the foundation that will support the innovations and breakthroughs to come.
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Professor Susan Marqusee was selected as a 2015 Biophysical Society Fellow for her work as one of the world’s top experimentalists in the field of protein folding.
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Professor Eva Nogales was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. She also received the Protein Society’s 2015 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award, which recognizes exceptional contributions in protein science that profoundly influence our understanding of biology.
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Assistant Professor Kaoru Saijo has been named a 2015 Searle Scholar, which supports bold and talented early career faculty who have opened up novel approaches to answer fundamental questions in biology and the biomedical sciences.
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Professor Carlos Bustamante was one of six UC Berkeley faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015, which honors leaders in their fields who have made distinct contributions to
the nation and the world.
In Memoriam
Professor Emeritus Richard Steinhardt, who joined MCB in 1967 and retired in 2005,
died on July 10, 2014. A neurobiologist with wide-ranging scientific interests, Steinhardt was known for discovering how calcium regulates cellular functions from oocyte activation after fertilization to plasma
membrane repair.