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…
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.
December 30, 2015
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2015.
December 31, 2014
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2014.
October 02, 2014
Researchers in QB3-Berkeley’s Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC) are celebrating the September 30 arrival of a Zeiss ORION NanoFab microscope, a multibeam instrument that researchers will use for unprecedented investigations of matter. Purchased with a $2 million NSF grant, the new tool is the first of its kind at an academic institution in the U.S. The…
September 04, 2014
New discoveries in genome engineering continue to emerge at a breakneck pace. Some of the world’s leading experts met at UC Berkeley’s second annual Re-writing Genomes symposium on August 25 to explore how genome-editing technologies promise to transform basic research as well as biomedical engineering. Berkeley faculty members and QB3 faculty affiliates Dirk Hockemeyer and Jennifer Doudna…
December 30, 2013
Highlights of QB3-Berkeley research, awards, and events news from 2013
September 17, 2013
Researchers using a new tool in QB3-Berkeley’s Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC) will investigate matter on an unprecedented scale, thanks to a $2 million NSF grant for the purchase and installation of a new ORION Nanofab microscope. Berkeley will be one of the first institutions in the U.S. to obtain a new generation of Focused Ion…