News about about MCB faculty, students and staff.
Yang Dan, Abby F. Dernburg and Michael B. Eisen have received one of the most sought-after honors in biomedical research: appointment as Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators.
Rachel Brem, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, has been chosen to receive the Ellison New Scholar Award in Aging. New Scholar candidates are investigators who are nominated by U.S. medical institutions and universities for their outstanding promise in aging research.
Leslie Chung-Lei Sheu's dogged scientific curiosity, academic success and empathy for the downtrodden have earned her the University Medal, the campus's top honor for a graduating senior.
MCB faculty member, Jamie H. D. Cate, received one of the first grants awarded by the BP-sponsored Energy Biosciences Institute.
Professor John Kuriyan and Professor Jasper Rine are among 212 scholars, scientists, artists, civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers.
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Professor Michael Botchan and Professor Jasper Rine are among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the nation's most prestigious societies of scholars engaged in science and engineering research.
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Professor John Ngai, Coates Family Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Functional Genomics Laboratory at UC Berkeley, and his colleagues have found that insulin-like growth factor (IGF) plays a critical role in setting up the connections between chemical detectors in the nose and the brain's olfactory centers.
Professor Emeritus of Immunology Robert Isaac Mishell, MD died of heart failure on March 6, 2008 at the age of 73. Co-author of 45 publications, he invented the Mishell-Dutton culture technique in 1967 which is still in use today.
Robert Isaac Mishell, MD
May 18, 1934 - March 6, 2008
The 2008 CDB Spring Symposium on the Cell Biology of Microbial Pathogenesis will be held on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008, in 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building. Visit the symposium website for information and registration.