Department News

Candidates for the Bowes Research Fellowship will be presenting their work at a symposium on Thursday, April 9, 2009 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building (pre and post-reception in Koshland Hall Lobby).

Speakers include:

ANDREI POPESCU, Rutgers University
"Addiction insights: Inter-structure communication in the reward circuitry during learning"

ERIK PROCKO, Harvard University
"Sensitivity and activation of a heat-responsive ion channel"

BRIAN TUCH, UCSF
"Sex changes: The natural rewiring of yeast reproduction"

WOJ WOJTOWICZ, UCLA
"A role for molecular diversity and specificity in wiring the fly brain"

Professor Marc Kirschner leads off an exciting program for this year's Cell & Developmental Biology Symposium on "Systems Cell Biology" on Tuesday, March 24. Please register if you plan to attend.

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Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology David Drubin has been selected as the next Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBC), the journal of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ahmet Yildiz has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.  The fellowship provides $50,000 to early-career scientists who show outstanding promise.

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MCB graduate student Walter Fischler of Professor Kristin Scott's lab is the recipient of a Weintraub award for 2009. The Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences.

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Please join us in a memorial to honor Jeffrey Winer's life and contributions to Neurobiology.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
2-4 PM
Toll Room, Alumni House, Berkeley Campus
RSVP:  David Larue

Donations for a scholarship in Jeff's memory are being collected:

Five MCB faculty members have been named as 2008 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  They include Associate Professor (Affiliated) of Genetics, Genomics and Development Steven Brenner, Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Jennifer Doudna, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Susan Marqusee, Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Barbara Meyer, and Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Nipam Patel.

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Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Robert Tjian received a $918,000 grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to develop new molecular tools and novel technologies for high efficiency gene targeting in stem cells.

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The Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND), an inter-disciplinary research center that includes many faculty members in MCB, received a $7 million pledge from philanthropist Henry Wheeler.

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It is with regret that we announce that Professor Jeffery Winer passed away the morning of December 9 after a short illness. Professor Winer served the Department and campus in many ways and he will be greatly missed.

Donations may be sent to the Jeffery Winer Memorial Scholarship:
University of California
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Jeffery Winer Memorial Scholarship Fund
142 LSA #3200
Berkeley, CA 94720-3200

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