October 09, 2025
Lenny Teytelman, PhD, is the founder and president of protocols.io, a platform created to make scientific methods more accessible, transparent, and reproducible. Acquired by Springer Nature in 2023, protocols.io has grown from a small startup into a global community used by thousands of researchers worldwide. Teytelman completed his PhD in genetics and computational biology at…
October 07, 2025
The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.” These circuits were forerunners of the qubits in many quantum computers. John Clarke, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for his…
October 03, 2025
For many people, viruses are a scourge; they cause illness and even death, and the mere mention of them, whether they are harmless or cause the flu, sends many reaching for the disinfectant wipes. But to Britt Glaunsinger, viruses are a wonder. “I love efficiency, and viruses are masters at efficiency,” says Glaunsinger, a professor…
October 01, 2025
Andrew Dillin is a professor of immunology and molecular medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB). He would be in the Department of Neuroscience, too, if he wasn’t so dang busy. In addition to his regular teaching and research duties, Dillin is developing the Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine’s new curriculum…
September 04, 2025
UC Berkeley’s Wenjun Zhang is trying to understand how oral bacteria make biofilms, aka plaque, so she can distinguish the good from the bad — and tip the balance to prevent cavities. If Wenjun Zhang has her way, no one will ever have to brush or floss again. Zhang, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical…
September 03, 2025
Allon Wagner is an assistant professor of computer science in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, an assistant professor of immunology and molecular medicine in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, and a member of the Center for Computational Biology. His lab develops data-driven algorithms to analyze single-cell molecular…
August 25, 2025
Two PhD students win a national prize for promoting scientific rigor Teng-Jui (Owen) Lin and Kylee Hillman, two graduate students in Professor Markita Landry‘s Lab at the College of Chemistry, have been named champions of scientific rigor and awarded the NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize. The prize, which includes a cash award of $7,500, recognizes early-career scientists…
August 14, 2025
The National Science Foundation has renewed funding for the NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM), an NSF Center for Chemical Innovation led by researchers at UC Berkeley. C-GEM tackles a “Holy Grail” problem in the chemical sciences: how to synthesize truly sequence-defined chemical polymers, oligomeric molecules possessing both a pre-determined, diverse sequence, and a…