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Faculty focus on Sabeeha Merchant

Sabeeha Merchant is a professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and a professor of plant biology in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley, and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her group studies photosynthetic metabolism and metalloenzymes and they…

Faculty focus on David Schaffer

David Schaffer is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience. Schaffer’s applies engineering principles to enhance stem cell and gene therapy approaches for neuroregeneration. This work includes mechanistic investigation of stem cell control, as well as molecular evolution and engineering of viral gene delivery vehicles. In addition to his lab’s research, Schaffer…

Faculty member Daniel Fletcher on a grey graphic with the QB3-Berkeley logo on it.

Faculty focus on Daniel Fletcher

Daniel Fletcher is the Chatterjee Professor of Bioengineering and Biophysics and a faculty member of the Bioengineering Department, an affiliated faculty of the Molecular and Cell Biology Department, and a Visiting Investigator of the Gladstone Institutes at UCSF. He is also a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-director of…

Faculty focus on Aaron Streets

Aaron Streets received a BS in physics and a BA in art at UCLA. He completed his PhD in applied physics at Stanford University with Dr. Stephen Quake. Streets then went to Beijing, China as a Whitaker International Postdoctoral Fellow and a Ford postdoctoral fellow and worked with Dr. Yanyi Huang in the Biodynamic Optical Imaging…

Faculty focus on Markita del Carpio Landry

Markita del Carpio Landry is an assistant professor in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and the principal investigator of the Landry Laboratory, which has pioneered nanotechnologies for in-brain neurotransmitter imaging, and also genetic manipulation in plants. Prof. Landry is also on the scientific advisory board of Terramera and on…