July 28, 2025
A planned addition to the campus’s Innovation Zone will expand lab space for the Innovative Genomics Institute and build out the largest innovation hub — Bakar Labs — at any U.S. university. UC Berkeley’s planned Innovation Zone on the west side of campus gained significant momentum as a result of the approval today (July 17)…
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…
June 26, 2024
Experiment captures atoms in free fall to look for gravitational anomalies caused by universe’s missing energy. Dark energy — a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate — was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new and exotic particle causing the expansion. Pushing the boundaries…
December 06, 2023
Alex Pines, Glenn T. Seaborg Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, has had a remarkable career as a groundbreaking researcher and beloved teacher. Pines is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society; holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Rome, Paris, Marseilles, Amritsar, and the Weizmann Institute of Science; and his many…
January 24, 2022
Christopher Hann-Soden discusses the breadth of services offered at UC Berkeley’s QB3 Genomics Core Facility. The QB3 Genomics core research facility is an umbrella term for three separate UC Berkeley research facilities devoted to different stages of high throughput sequencing and genomics experiments. Hundreds of researchers turn to QB3 Genomics including almost all researchers who…
May 19, 2021
Paul Lum, the managing director of the Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC), talks about the history of the facility, its unique equipment, and the BNC’s research and culture.
March 25, 2021
Graduate student Riley Fricke sits down with Jeff Pelton, the manager of QB3-Berkeley’s 900 MHz NMR Facility, to discuss the facility and recent research that NMR spectroscopy has helped support.
March 10, 2021
Mary West, the director of the Cell and Tissue Analysis Facility and the High Throughput Screening Facility, explains how core facilities increase researchers’ access to equipment and highlights how these facilities play a crucial role in supporting labs’ work during campus COVID-19 restrictions.