January 18, 2023
Holger Müller successfully applied for his first patent when he was 14. Later, he did his undergraduate thesis with Jürgen Mlynek at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He graduated from Humboldt-University, Berlin, with Achim Peters as his advisor. Müller received a fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation and joined the group of Steven Chu…
January 16, 2023
What do the smallest building blocks of life look like? How do molecules dance and dart and drift through cells, fold and fuse and form the machinery of living things? For Ke Xu, a 2021 Heising-Simons Faculty Fellow, these questions are at the forefront of everything he does. Xu wants to visualize living cells at the…
January 11, 2023
Miki Yamamoto, PhD, is the vice president and head of regulatory affairs at Arrivent Biopharma. Yamamoto is joining the QB3-Berkeley Professionals in Residence (PIR) program on February 9th 2023. UC Berkeley and LBL trainees may register for Yamamoto’s events here. Yamamoto spoke with graduate student Anneliese Gest about her journey in regulatory affairs. Anneliese Gest:…
January 05, 2023
QB3-Berkeley’s Summer Undergraduate Biotech Internship program is now open. For 2023 placements at Bay Area biotech companies, UC Berkeley undergraduates must apply by January 30th. Information and application form are on the internship program’s page. During the summer of 2022, I had the opportunity to be a QB3-Berkeley Undergraduate Biotech intern at InterVenn Biosciences, located…
December 08, 2022
The Allen Institute today announced six new Next Generation Leaders (NGL), members of a unique neuroscience advisory panel made up of early-career researchers who will help advise research efforts at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the MindScope Program, and the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. The Next Generation Leaders program is now in its ninth year.…
December 05, 2022
CRISPR, the Nobel Prize-winning gene editing technology, is poised to have a profound impact on the fields of microbiology and medicine yet again. A team led by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna and her longtime collaborator Jill Banfield has developed a clever tool to edit the genomes of bacteria-infecting viruses called bacteriophages using a rare form…
November 28, 2022
Kevin E. Healy is the Jan Fandrianto and Selfia Halim Distinguished Professor in Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley in the Departments of Bioengineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. His group currently conducts research in the areas of: bioinspired stem cell microenvironments to control stem cell lineage specification and self-organization into microtissues or…
November 15, 2022
Katja Brose, PhD, is a science program officer at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Brose is joining the QB3-Berkeley Professionals in Residence (PIR) program on January 26th, 2023. UC Berkeley trainees may register for Brose’s PIR events here. Brose spoke with graduate student Samvardhini Sridharan about her career and the opportunities she’s had to wear…