April 24, 2024
Seven UC Berkeley scientists — including a chemist, a psychologist, an engineer, two biologists and two physicists — are among 250 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences today. The Academy recognizes excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation…
April 24, 2024
Matthew Francis is a professor in the Department of Chemistry. Research in the Francis lab is focused on the development of new synthetic methods for site-specific protein modification. These new reactions are then applied to the construction of protein-based materials with useful optical and therapeutic functions. Current areas of research include (1) the development of…
April 18, 2024
Six UC Berkeley researchers have been elected 2023 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. The honorees, announced today (Thursday, April 18), are among 502 scientists, engineers and innovators recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements. The new UC Berkeley…
April 12, 2024
On a sunny Friday morning graduate students and postdocs gathered in a conference room in Stanley Hall to have an intimate and frank conversation with Annie Tsong, PhD. Tsong is the chief strategy and product officer at Amyris, a company based in Emeryville, CA, and founded out of UC Berkeley’s Jay Keasling’s lab. She obtained…
April 01, 2024
Applications are open for QB3-Berkeley’s graduate student and postdoc science writing workshop, Science Writing for the Public: Share Your Research and Connect with Audiences. This three-part workshop will offer participants training in writing science communications for a general audience. Description, timeline, and application details below. Workshop Description Writer, editor, and QB3-Berkeley communications manager Mackenzie Smith…
March 28, 2024
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have devised a novel method to selectively tag tryptophan residues within proteins, potentially leading to the development of new types of drugs and engineered proteins, including those that mediate protein-protein interactions. Led by Christopher J. Chang and F. Dean Toste, the Berkeley team drew inspiration from nature’s synthesis of indole alkaloids, devising an…
March 26, 2024
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) recently announced the induction of Michael Marletta, Professor of Chemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology, to its College of Fellows(link is external). He was recognized for his groundbreaking work in gas sensing, which has practical applications in oxygen delivery. The induction ceremony took place at the AIMBE Annual…
March 21, 2024
At its most basic, chemistry is a lot like working with building blocks – but the materials are atoms and molecules. COFs – or covalent organic frameworks, a new class of porous crystals – are a great example of a material that behaves like a molecular Lego set, where individual building blocks are connected through…