September 12, 2024
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences have honored three women scientists, including Markita Landry, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Each of the women are leaders in their field: Markita del Carpio Landry, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Chemical Engineering) is named the…
September 10, 2024
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development Priya Moorjani recently received an NSF CAREER award for 2024-2029 for her research project to develop novel statistical methods to characterize archaic introgression and apply it to large-scale diverse, multi-ethnic cohorts to learn about the legacy of archaic ancestry in modern humans. Read this story on the MCB…
September 10, 2024
Derfogail Delcassian and Yue Clare Lou, Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) Fellows from the second cohort in the HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science (WIES) Program, were each awarded $1 million in non-dilutive seed funding that can exponentially accelerate the commercialization of their discoveries. All four WIES Fellows presented formal pitches, describing their business ideas and…
September 09, 2024
One-day research conference considers the interconnectedness of human and environmental health as well as that of global communities and brings new insights to biosciences research. On a Friday in August, QB3-Berkeley hosted the Bioscience Meeting “Algorithms, Detection, and the ‘One Health’ Approach” at Stanley Hall on UC Berkeley’s campus. Organized by UC Berkeley bioengineering postdoc…
August 22, 2024
Colonies of these choanoflagellates — members of a group considered to be the closest living relatives of all animals — have their own unique microbiomes. Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra Nevada is known for its towering tufa formations, abundant brine shrimp and black clouds of alkali flies uniquely adapted to the salty, arsenic- and…
August 22, 2024
Polymers derived from alpha-lipoic acid (αLA), a small molecule that aids in cell metabolism, have the potential to provide versatile and environmentally friendly adhesives, but their instability has long been a barrier to their use in practical settings. Now, Berkeley engineers have discovered a new chemical strategy that overcomes this impediment, opening the door to…
August 14, 2024
Scientists will be able to determine the function of genes more quickly than ever with a new high-throughput approach A new technique developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will make it much easier for researchers to discover the traits or activities encoded by genes of unknown function in microbes, a key step toward…
August 07, 2024
Nematodes react to the odors of pathogens by prepping their guts to withstand an infection. Do humans react similarly? Many organisms react to the smell of deadly pathogens by reflexively avoiding them. But a recent study from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that the nematode C. elegans also reacts to the odor of pathogenic bacteria by…