An interview with Professional in Residence Abe Anderson

Abe Anderson, PhD, is a Computational Biology Scientific Associate Director in Precision Medicine at Amgen. He is joining QB3-Berkeley’s Professional in Residence (PIR) program in February 2025 and will be leveraging his background to host a virtual program on career development; trainees are invited to register for this PIR program. Anderson spoke with graduate student…

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Meet the Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics

How a small group of scientists has grown into a collaborative community For most graduate students, a 4:00 pm meeting on a Friday is the last place they would choose to be. But if you walk into 4163 VLSB, you’ll see a gathering of graduate students, postdocs, PIs, and other curious scientists listening intently to…

A side-by-side of Jennifer Doudna and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

President Biden awards Doudna National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Jennifer Doudna, a UC Berkeley biochemist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, has been awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. President Joe Biden named Doudna and 10 other technology medalists in a White House announcement last Friday, Jan. 3.…

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Faculty focus on Ahmet Yildiz

Ahmet Yildiz is a professor in the departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Physics. The Yildiz laboratory combines biochemical and single-molecule biophysical techniques to understand how motor proteins move on microtubules long distances at fast speeds and produce the forces required to carry their cargo in a dense cytoplasm. QB3-Berkeley: Are there any recent…

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Science with a story: diverse paths to discovery at UC Berkeley

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…

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QB3-Berkeley is hiring a communications assistant

QB3-Berkeley seeks a talented, reliable, organized, and design-minded student to join our team as a communications and administrative assistant. This position will work with QB3-Berkeley’s leadership to help us communicate our research, outreach, programming, and events to the UC Berkeley community and beyond. Students who have strong verbal and written communication skills and who are…

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Beloved colleague and prolific scholar, Alexander (Alex) Pines has passed away

We are sorry to share the sad news of the passing of a beloved colleague and prolific scholar, Alexander (Alex) Pines, Glenn T. Seaborg Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School. He was 79 years old. Alex was born in 1945 and grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where his lifelong passion for science,…

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Adam Arkin receives ARPA-H award

UC Berkeley researchers in two multi-institutional teams have won major awards from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fund pioneering biomedical research. Projects in microbiome engineering and in implantable biologic drug delivery will receive up to $22.7 million and $34.9 million, respectively, from ARPA-H, a federal funding agency that supports transformative biomedical…