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Andrew Dillin

MCB's Andrew Dillin on CURED, UC Berkeley’s new approach to advance medicine and global health:
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2025 MCB Outstanding Postdoc Award recipients

Congrats to our 2025 MCB Outstanding Postdoc Award recipients who are being honored for their excellence in research, leadership, and service! 👏🎉Erin Doherty @erinedoherty.bsky.social, Kevin Eislmayr, Naohiro Kuwayama, & Joseph Lobel
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Oski holding a bday cupcake next to undergrads in a lab

Oski’s turning 84!🥳Celebrate by supporting his wish: that every Cal student feels included and empowered. Donate to the Biological Sciences Undergrad Research Fund to help more students work in biology labs & spark their careers!
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Congrats to MCB's Jennifer Doudna @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 ASM Lifetime Achievement Award! 👏🥂@asm.org

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NSF has committed $18M more to C-GEM at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, directed by QB3-Berkeley's Alanna Schepartz. The center is tackling a "Holy Grail" problem: synthesizing truly sequence-defined chemical polymers. Read more from the College of Chemistry: chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/nsf-com...

Congrats to MCB PhD alumni Paul Negulescu for receiving the 2025 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award!

Triple-drug therapy for cystic fibrosis - Lasker Foundation laskerfoundation.org/winners/comb...

2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium registration flyer: https://czbiohub.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I5xR9QzZR7u0hfbHYXD8EA

Check out the Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium highlighting the work of exceptional early-career scientists in the broad field of quantitative biological and biomedical sciences:

Wednesday, Sept. 10th 2025 9:30AM - 1:45PM (PT):

czbiohub.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Sleep strengthens muscle and bone by boosting growth hormone levels. UC Berkeley researchers discover how. - Berkeley News Growth hormone released during sleep is critical not only for childhood growth but also for adult metabolism. A new study reveals the complex brain circuits involved, offering fresh insights into heal...

Exciting research from the lab of MCB's Yang Dan! 🧪
news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/08/s...

Congrats to MCB's Susan Marqusee @marquseelab.bsky.social on being selected as a 2025 Protein Society Fellow @proteinsociety.bsky.social! 👏🎉

Congrats to MCB's James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social on receiving the ASBMB 2026 Avanti Award in Lipids @asbmb.bsky.social! 👍🎉

James Nuñez named 2025 Vallee Scholar

Congrats to MCB's James Nuñez @jamesknunez.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Vallee Scholar @valleefoundation.bsky.social! 🎉👏

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Priya Moorjani promoted to MCB Associate Professor

Congrats to MCB's Priya Moorjani on her promotion to MCB Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development! 👏🥂

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New book chronicles UC Berkeley's evolution into a 'Startup Campus' - Berkeley News Now available for all students, faculty and staff, the free ebook gives a sweeping account of Berkeley's gradual embrace — and recent celebration — of innovation and entrepreneurship.

If you're into startups, innovation, or university impact, don’t miss this.

Startup Campus chronicles @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's rise as a global startup hub, with named contribution from the MTI's executive director, Dr. Julia Schaletzky.

Learn more at news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/02/n...

Keynote speaker Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi at the Bay Area Biotech Day. Photo credit: Serim Yang.

Check out this recap of Berkeley's recent inaugural Bay Area Biotech Day which brought communities together to foster collaboration and accelerate the translation of cutting-edge biological discoveries into life-changing therapeutics! 🧪 @mti-ucb.bsky.social
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We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine in MCB. Learn more and apply online:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05096

We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Molecular Therapeutics in MCB. Learn more and apply online:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05098

Scientists hack microbes to identify environmental sources of methane - Berkeley News UC Berkeley researchers tweaked a key enzyme involved in microbial methane production to understand the unique fingerprints of different environments on Earth that generate the greenhouse gas.

Exciting research out of the Nayak lab! 🧪

news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/s...

Ana Arruda named Pew Scholar

Congrats to MCB's Ana Arruda on being named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences! 👏🎉 @arrudalab.bsky.social‬

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Congrats to MCB's James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social on being named a 2025 ASCB Fellow! @ascbiology.bsky.social👏🎉

Jennifer Doudna named 2026 Priestley Medalist by the American Chemical Society.

Congrats to MCB's Jennifer Doudna @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 ACS Priestley Medal from the @acs.org! 👏🏅
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Grateful to everyone who brought #BayAreaBiotechDay to life yesterday at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! It was incredible to see the energy in the room and the cutting-edge advances shared by leaders in both academia and industry. Excited to see what’s next for biotech!

An illustration of a DNA strand surrounded by faces. Artist: Saurabh Singh.

New research from Priya Moorjani's lab offers insights into India’s genomic legacy.

Postdocs @lauritsskov.bsky.social and @ekerdoncuff.bsky.social traced Indian's ancestry to three main sources. Read the findings in this story by grad student Jules Perez: bit.ly/3IK46vh

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social undergrads, there is still space in this course on the cellular, genetic, and developmental basis of evolution taught by Professor Nicole King and me this Fall. Find out why, as Dobzhansky, said "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."

🧬📈 The UC Regents approved the IGI-Bakar Labs building, expanding lab space for the @innovativegenomics.bsky.social - founded by MTI board member Jennifer Doudna - and building out Bakar Labs - championed by MTI ally David Schaffer.

📰 Read more at inspire.berkeley.edu/o/crispr-res...

Out today in @natbiotech.nature.com, IGI's @urnov.bsky.social and leaders across the #biotech industry on expanding patient access to #CRISPR cures with platform technology.

Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor - Nature Microbiology Sequence and structural analyses reveal a divergent peptidyl transferase centre and a hibernation factor in archaea.

Out now:

Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor

@jhdcate.bsky.social @banfieldlab.bsky.social @diptinayak.bsky.social & co

#microsky

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CRISPR researchers and startup entrepreneurs will share new building in UC Berkeley's Innovation Zone - Berkeley News A planned addition to the campus's Innovation Zone will expand lab space for the Innovative Genomics Institute and build out the largest innovation hub — Bakar Labs — at any U.S. university.

We’re thrilled to announce IGI–Bakar Labs. This new building will allow the IGI to continue expanding our impact in health and agricultural applications of #CRISPR, and will be shared with the Bakar Labs incubator for growing biotech companies. Learn more: news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/17/c...

Cytoplasmic control of spindle architecture Nature Cell Biology - Dense crowding of macromolecules in the cytoplasm is a fundamental property of cells. A study now identifies a pathway by which cytoplasmic dilution in differentiating neurons...

Thanks to the Heald lab @berkeleymcb.bsky.social for a very nice News & Views on our paper on cytoplasmic density & spindle architecture! 💚
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The $20 Million Bet on CRISPR to Cure Rare Childhood Diseases The center will bring custom gene-editing treatments to children.

MTI advisor and board member @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social just teamed up with the @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to unveil UCSF’s Center for Pediatric CRISPR Cures. First up: 8 children receiving custom edits after Baby KJ’s landmark treatment.
Details: time.com/7300257/cent...
#CRISPR #RareDisease

GSA Medal recipient @nkwhiteman.bsky.social describes his scientific journey into the world of herbivorous insects and their host plants and how with genetic and genome editing tools led to findings in herbivore resistance in plants.

Read more: buff.ly/w1GFmwL

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