December 03, 2024
How unique backgrounds in graduate student and postdoctoral researchers fuel innovation in science. As a child, my world was bound by curiosity, but also by barriers. As a first-generation, low-income Latinx student, I often felt like a fish trapped in a plastic bag—watching the ocean of opportunities just beyond my reach, the thin walls of…
October 03, 2024
An interdisciplinary group of UC Berkeley researchers are exploring the molecular mechanisms of friendship in prairie voles using fluorescent carbon nanotube sensors. From parental care to mating systems, scientists have long relied on mouse models to study the critical biological pathways that underpin social relationships. But this model falls short when it comes to understanding…
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…
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…
January 22, 2024
Jaime Yassif is the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s vice president for Global Biological Policy and Programs and this month’s Professional in Residence at QB3-Berkeley. Yassif spoke to graduate student Sita Chandrasekaran ahead of her January 25th visit to campus. Bioscience trainees are welcome to register for Yassif’s events. Sita Chandrasekaran: Could you tell us about your…
November 30, 2023
Arne Bakker, PhD, is the director of Meetings and Community for Science at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The QB3-Berkeley Professionals in Residence program will be joined by Bakker on Friday, December 8th. UC Berkeley and LBL trainees may register for Bakker’s events here. Bakker spoke with graduate student Santiago Yori Restrepo about his journey in science…
April 18, 2023
Bilge Ozaydin is the Director of the Strain Discovery and Development group at Pivot Bio. The QB3-Berkeley Professionals in Residence program will be joined by Ozaydin on Friday, May 5th. UC Berkeley and LBL trainees may register for Ozaydin’s events here. Ozaydin spoke with postdoctoral researcher Briana Van Treeck about her scientific journey. Briana Van…
March 17, 2023
Andy Hsieh, PhD, is a biotechnology analyst at William Blair. Hsieh is joining the QB3-Berkeley Professionals in Residence (PIR) program on Friday, March 24, 2023. UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Lab graduate students and postdocs may register for Hsieh’s PIR events here. Hsieh spoke with graduate student Samvardhini Sridharan about his transition into the financial…