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…
January 20, 2022
Scientists have long researched the interplay of how nature (genetics) and nurture (sensory experience following birth) shape our brains and make us who we are. In early brain development, environmental stimuli are considered indispensable for the healthy development of many brain regions executing functions essential for the organism’s survival. This formative period addresses the…
January 18, 2022
UC Berkeley research strives to understand the cell’s complex recycling program and how we can use it to treat diseases. Our bodies are composed of trillions of cells—each one equipped with a microscopic recycling center known as the ubiquitin-proteasome system, or UPS. When proteins inside the cell need to be removed, the UPS recognizes, marks,…
January 11, 2022
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub announced today (Jan. 11) the second cohort of scientists to be named CZ Biohub Investigators, 21 of whom are UC Berkeley faculty members. Of these 21 Berkeley faculty members, nine are QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliates. The investigator competition, open to faculty members at Stanford University, UC San Francisco and Berkeley, awards $1 million…
January 05, 2022
Elise Kikis, PhD, is a professor of biology and chair of the biology department at the University of the South (Sewanee). Kikis is joining the QB3-Berkeley Professionals in Residence (PIR) program on January 12th and 20th. UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Lab graduate students and postdocs may register for Kikis’ events here. Kikis spoke with…
January 03, 2022
Research shows that certain teaching practices improve learning and reduce inequities. Graduate student Eva Gerber explores how one UC Berkeley department is bringing these crucial findings from education journals into classrooms. By the time that Danielle Spitzer, a fifth-year graduate student in the department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB), attended her departmental first-time Graduate…
December 16, 2021
The State of California allotted $20 million in this year’s budget to QB3 and its sibling California Institutes for Science and Innovation to plan and implement programs to strengthen and grow the workforce. QB3 will use its share — $5 million over five years — to provide students with training in advanced biotechnology, and to…
December 15, 2021
UC Berkeley is partnering with UC San Francisco and Stanford University as founding scientific members of a new institute that aims to accelerate breakthroughs in complex diseases. The Arc Institute was officially launched today (Dec. 15) with the goal of developing a new model for collaborative research that brings together world-class research with unconstrained funding…