April 22, 2025
This year two UC Berkeley faculty members have been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Philosopher Hannah Ginsborg will use the award to write a book about the relation between norms and reasons, while chemical engineer Markita del Carpio Landry will try to find molecules in little-studied plants that could treat neurological disorders. For the past 100…
April 15, 2025
The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced today their appointment of the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows, including 198 distinguished individuals working across 53 disciplines. QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Markita del Carpio Landry is among this year’s class of fellows. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a…
March 31, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Aaron Streets, Ph.D., Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Associate Professor of Bioengineering at University of California, Berkeley to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest…
March 27, 2025
The 2024 class of AAAS fellows includes UC Berkeley researchers from the fields of biology, physics, psychology, engineering and statistics. Seven UC Berkeley faculty members from a broad range of fields are among the 2024 class of fellows elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general…
March 18, 2025
Andreas Stahl is the Ruth Okey Professor in the Department of Nutritional Science & Toxicology at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on developing innovative strategies to combat obesity-related disorders, including Type 2 diabetes and metabolic liver diseases. Stahl’s lab explores lipid metabolism, mitochondrial function, and adipose tissue biology, with a particular interest in engineering solutions…
March 11, 2025
Brian Staskawicz, a professor of the graduate school in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture in recognition of his groundbreaking discoveries of the immune system and disease resistance in plants. The Wolf Prize is an international award granted by the Wolf Foundation…
March 11, 2025
Online, products branded as the blue lotus promise calm moments and psychedelic trips. But they’re far different from what ancient Egyptians consumed, a UC Berkeley student researcher says. Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of archaeology’s most significant discoveries. Researchers found…
March 06, 2025
Shared resources for research The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at UC Berkeley (QB3-Berkeley) operates several state-of-the-art shared research facilities on campus for use by UC Berkeley faculty and students as well as external researchers in academia and industry. These videos highlight the capabilities of three of them. Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center For the design, development, and…