February 15, 2023
Six young UC Berkeley faculty members have been selected to receive a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship, the largest number of fellows this year from any one public university. In all, 126 early-career researchers from 54 U.S. and Canadian institutions were selected, according to an announcement by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships honor extraordinary U.S. and…
February 14, 2023
Open Philanthropy recently announced that QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Irina Conboy has been recommended a grant of $3,042,600 over three years to support research led by the Conboy on the mechanisms of aging. In her previous work, Conboy has identified ten new biomarkers and a set of pathways that may potentially be involved in the repression of…
February 13, 2023
A fungus that plagues rice crops worldwide gains entry to plant cells in a way that leaves it vulnerable to simple chemical blockers, a discovery that could lead to new fungicides to reduce the substantial annual losses of rice and other valuable cereals. Each year, blast disease, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, attacks and…
February 08, 2023
Academia has a diversity problem, especially in STEM. There is a dearth of scientists who identify as Black, Hispanic or who are members of marginalized communities in STEM-related faculty roles at colleges and universities, studies show. These inequities can hurt students and result in harmful biases in tools and teachings of fields that affect the public.…
February 08, 2023
Priya Moorjani is an assistant professor of genetics, genomics, evolution, and development in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Center for Computational Biology. She holds a BE in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai and an MS in bioinformatics and genomics at George Washington University. Moorjani received her PhD in genetics from…
January 31, 2023
Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members have been elected lifetime fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. The new members, among 508 total 2022 AAAS fellows, bring the number of UC Berkeley AAAS fellows — active and retired — to…
January 18, 2023
Holger Müller successfully applied for his first patent when he was 14. Later, he did his undergraduate thesis with Jürgen Mlynek at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He graduated from Humboldt-University, Berlin, with Achim Peters as his advisor. Müller received a fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation and joined the group of Steven Chu…
January 16, 2023
What do the smallest building blocks of life look like? How do molecules dance and dart and drift through cells, fold and fuse and form the machinery of living things? For Ke Xu, a 2021 Heising-Simons Faculty Fellow, these questions are at the forefront of everything he does. Xu wants to visualize living cells at the…