News about about MCB faculty, students and staff.
Professor Jeffery Winer has been selected as a recipient of the 2007 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs. This award recognizes faculty who have provided GSIs outstanding mentorship in teaching at Berkeley. Professor Winer was selected for the award based on nominations submitted by GSIs from MCB.
Professor Caroline Kane has been selected as recipient of the 2007
Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence.
Professor Kane is among four distinguished recipients of this award from
across the campus.
MCB Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental
Biology Michael Rape has been awarded the Kimmel Scholars Award. This award provides $100,000 per year
for two years for young investigators engaged in cancer-related research.
For more information see http://www.kimmel.org/About41.html
To faculty, postdocs and students in MCB:
On Tuesday March 27 the Division of Cell and Development Biology and the UCB Stem Cell Center will be co-sponsoring a one-day symposium on "Frontiers in Tumor Biology".
We have a great lineup of speakers and you can download a pdf poster advertising the meeting here.
Attendance at the symposium is free but because we'll be providing
refreshments at the breaks and post-symposium reception we'd like to
get an idea of attendance. If you are planning to attend (part or all)
of the meeting please register on the symposium website (
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/groups/cdbspringsymposium/).
Thanks and looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.
Iswar Hariharan
Kunxin Luo
Steve Martin
MCB graduate students Carolyn Phillips and Gianna Hammer have received the 2007 Harold M. Weintraub award.
Gianna completed her Ph.D. in the Fall semester in the Nilabh Shastri lab working on antigen processing in the endoplasmic reticulum. Carolyn will complete her Ph.D this semester in the Dernburg lab working on understanding fundamental mechanisms of chromosome segregation.
Located under the new Career Management tab on the MCB home page is a new resource for biomedical post grads. It includes a Jobs Board with lots of jobs for MSs and PhDs, and articles on the many alternative career paths for scientists written by recent PhDs in the work force. Also, resources to help you think out your next steps.
Cell & Developmental Biology Professor Rebecca Heald has been awarded one of thirteen 2006 NIH Pioneer Awards, which provides $2.5 million over five years to support "high-risk" research.
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The Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute, with participation from MCB and other departments, is currently recruiting for two faculty positions. Details are available here.
Former MCB Graduate Student Dr. Tracy Johnson has been selected as a 2005 recipient of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Dr. Johnson received her Ph.D. from the MCB Department in 1996 after completing her thesis research on RNA binding to RNA Polymerase II in Professor Michael Chamberlain's lab. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego.
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