Spring 2016 MCB Transcript

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Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of bone-marrow derived macrophages infected with a mutant strain of Listeria monocytogenes. The micrograph shows a bacterium entrapped in a vacuole with multiple layers of membranes resembling multilamellar bodies. TEM experiments were performed at the Electron Microscope Lab (UC Berkeley) in collaboration with Kent McDonald. Image courtesy of Dan Portnoy and Gabriel Mitchell. — Immunotherapeutics
and Vaccine
Research Initiative*

Earth — Alliance for
Global Health
and Science

MCB Undergrads — Undergraduate
Networking
Event

Brian Castellano — Promoting
Equity & Inclusion
in the Sciences

Rachael Acker — Finding the
Sweet Spot:
Swimming & Science

Dr. Julio Soto — Alumni Profile:
Julio Soto
PhD '94

Campanile photo by Hulda Nelson — Class Notes
for
MCB Alumni

Professor Jennifer Doudna — New and
Noteworthy:
MCB Awardees

Mice on Wheel — MCB Asks:
What Have You
Been Up To?

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MCB Transcript is published twice a year by the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

WRITING: Kirsten Mickelwait
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*Image Caption: Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of bone-marrow derived macrophages infected with a mutant strain of Listeria monocytogenes. The micrograph shows a bacterium entrapped in a vacuole with multiple layers of membranes resembling multilamellar bodies. TEM experiments were performed at the Electron Microscope Lab (UC Berkeley) in collaboration with Kent McDonald. Image courtesy of Dan Portnoy and Gabriel Mitchell.