Four innovative faculty members awarded campus’s 2022 Bakar Prize
February 07, 2022
QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliates Steve Conolly and Niren Murthy are among the four faculty members awarded the Bakar Fellows Program 2022 Bakar Prize.
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With a little help, new optical material assembles itself
February 04, 2022
A research team led by QB3-Berkeley faculty Ting Xu has demonstrated tiny concentric nanocircles that self-assemble into an optical material with precision and efficiency.
Reconstructing the chromosomes of the earliest animals on Earth
February 04, 2022
A study led by QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Daniel Rokhsar is the first to compare the chromosomal position of genes from diverse animals, allowing the ancestral organization to be inferred and rare changes in chromosome organization to be studied.
An Interview with Professional in Residence Christine Ring: Thriving at the interface
February 03, 2022
Christine Ring, PhD, JD, is the secretary of Nurix and the company’s general counsel. Ring is joining the QB3-Berkeley Professionals in Residence (PIR) program on Friday, Feburary 11th for two in-person events in Stanley Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Interested graduate students and postdocs may register for Ring’s events here. Ring spoke with graduate…
Eva Nogales among new UC Berkeley AAAS fellows
January 26, 2022
Ten members of the UC Berkeley community have been elected American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows, one of the most distinctive honors within the scientific community. Among these 10 members is Eva Nogales, professor of molecular and cell biology and QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate.
The many flavors of genomics, all in one place: QB3 Genomics
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…
Research shines a light on development of the visual cortex during the critical period after birth
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…
Seek and (don’t) destroy
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,…