
QB3-Berkeley news archive – 2018
December 30, 2018
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2018.
December 30, 2018
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2018.
November 21, 2018
Aug. 14, 1934 – Nov. 12, 2018 It is with great sadness we report the passing of Jack Kirsch, who served as a Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB) and Chemistry from 1964 to 2006 and as a Professor of the Graduate School in retirement. Jack was an esteemed scientist and a pillar of…
December 30, 2017
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2017.
July 05, 2017
Helium Ion Microscope (HIM) research conducted at QB3-Berkeley’s Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC) was recently showcased at the Grand Opening of the new ZEISS Customer Center in Pleasanton, CA. Frances Allen, who manages the HIM lab at the BNC and is a Research Scientist at UC Berkeley, was invited to speak at the event. Diverse projects…
December 30, 2016
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2016.
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…
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…
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.
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