January 03, 2022
Research shows that certain teaching practices improve learning and reduce inequities. Graduate student Eva Gerber explores how one UC Berkeley department is bringing these crucial findings from education journals into classrooms. By the time that Danielle Spitzer, a fifth-year graduate student in the department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB), attended her departmental first-time Graduate…
December 14, 2021
Graduate student Leah Gulyas explores how one tiny coronavirus protein blockades host cells—and how a few simple changes can flip the script. Mission control! Mission control! Do you read me? While these lines might first bring to mind a movie scene of astronauts frantically trying to contact their home base following a disastrous event in…
November 16, 2021
Graduate student Lauren Hamm sits down with three experts to talk about the dos and don’ts of sharing your research with the media. Modern scientists have too much to do. From teaching the next generation of researchers to networking with collaborators to searching for elusive funding, it’s hard to make time for actual research, much…
October 13, 2021
Graduate student John Berude highlights a new discovery from the Portnoy lab at UC Berkeley that helps scientists understand how food-borne pathogens know when they’ve reached their target.
July 28, 2021
Scientific interventions for tackling humanity’s addiction to plastic are hoping to make breakthroughs that could help restore the environment in a post-pandemic future.
July 21, 2021
Chemical biologists in the Wenjun Zhang Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered compound mutanofactin-697. This compound is crucial in the development of cavities induced by Streptococcus mutans and may serve as a target in the prevention and treatment of dental caries.
June 02, 2021
Postdoctoral scholar Briana Van Treeck examines how scientists are exploiting the unique abilities of an enzyme to increase throughput and decrease bias in RNA sequencing.
May 05, 2021
Graduate student Maria McSharry explores the Science Education Journal Club and founder Danielle Spitzer’s efforts to promote evidence-based teaching strategies on campus.