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Berkeley Symposium Highlights Genome Editing

September 15, 2016

For the fourth year in a row, leading experts in genome engineering gathered at UC Berkeley to highlight their discoveries and technologies at the Re-writing Genomes symposium. The August 22, 2016 event attracted more than 400 people for scientific talks, poster sessions, and socializing. Berkeley faculty members and QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliates Dirk Hockemeyer and Jennifer Doudna organized…

Biochemist Howard Schachman, an advocate for research ethics, dies at 97

August 10, 2016

Howard K. Schachman, an influential biochemist who became a political and scientific activist, challenging not only California’s loyalty oath and its mandatory retirement rules but also the way fraud is dealt with in science, died Friday, Aug. 5, from complications of pneumonia at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland. A professor of the graduate school…

Grad Student Zeinab Jahed Wins BPS Prize

March 03, 2016

Zeinab Jahed, a graduate student in Mohammad Mofrad’s lab, won the first place prize in the 2016 “Art of Science Image Contest” at the Biophysical Society annual meeting in Los Angeles. The image, titled “Bacterial Networking,” shows scanning electron microscopy of Staphylococcus aureus bacterial cells forming networks on top of poly-dimethyl-siloxane (PDMS) micro-posts.

Multibeam Ion Microscope Enables Sub-10-Nanometer Imaging and Fabrication

October 02, 2014

Researchers in QB3-Berkeley’s Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC) are celebrating the September 30 arrival of a Zeiss ORION NanoFab microscope, a multibeam instrument that researchers will use for unprecedented investigations of matter. Purchased with a $2 million NSF grant, the new tool is the first of its kind at an academic institution in the U.S. The…

Genome Engineering Pioneers Gather at Berkeley

September 04, 2014

New discoveries in genome engineering continue to emerge at a breakneck pace. Some of the world’s leading experts met at UC Berkeley’s second annual Re-writing Genomes symposium on August 25 to explore how genome-editing technologies promise to transform basic research as well as biomedical engineering. Berkeley faculty members and QB3 faculty affiliates Dirk Hockemeyer and Jennifer Doudna…