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In Memoriam: Professor Jack Kirsch

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…

Helium Ion Microscope Research Highlighted at ZEISS Bay Area Customer Center Opening Event

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…

Berkeley Symposium Highlights Genome Editing

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…

Biochemist Howard Schachman, an advocate for research ethics, dies at 97

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…

Grad Student Zeinab Jahed Wins BPS Prize

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.