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Matthew Welch

@mattwelchlab.bsky.social

Scientist studying the cell biology and microbiology of host pathogen interactions. Professor and Co-Chair of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. https://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/welch/

46 Followers  |  33 Following  |  7 Posts  |  Joined: 19.02.2025  |  1.9683

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Congrats to MCB's Susan Marqusee @marquseelab.bsky.social on being selected as a 2025 Protein Society Fellow @proteinsociety.bsky.social! πŸ‘πŸŽ‰

05.09.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
James NuΓ±ez named 2025 Vallee Scholar

James NuΓ±ez named 2025 Vallee Scholar

Congrats to MCB's James NuΓ±ez @jamesknunez.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Vallee Scholar @valleefoundation.bsky.social! πŸŽ‰πŸ‘

thevalleefoundation.org/news/2025-va...

05.09.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats to MCB's James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social on receiving the ASBMB 2026 Avanti Award in Lipids @asbmb.bsky.social! πŸ‘πŸŽ‰

05.09.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our newest preprint on bioRxiv β€ͺ@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social "Divergent Rickettsia species exhibit distinct mechanisms of actin-based motility" reveals surprising evolutionary flexibility in the mechanisms of Rickettsia actin-based motility www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

22.08.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

20.08.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Molecular Therapeutics in MCB. Learn more and apply online:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05098

20.08.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations James @olzmannlab.bsky.social for being elected an ASCB Fellow!

22.08.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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! πŸ§ͺ

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

19.08.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Yvette Fisher named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

Yvette Fisher named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

And another one for MCB's Yvette Fisher @yvetteefisher.bsky.social! πŸ”₯Congrats on being named a
@hhmi.org 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! πŸ₯‚https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars/2025-scholars

24.06.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

Congrats to MCB's Filipa Rijo-Ferreira on being named a
@hhmi.org 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! πŸŽ‰πŸ‘
www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

27.06.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats to MCB's Yang Dan & Donald Rio on their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! πŸ‘πŸŽ‰ www.amacad.org/new-members-...

24.04.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A spate of suicides drew this alumna back to UC Berkeley to confront mental health issues in academia - Berkeley News Encouraged by Wendy Ingram, a 2014 Berkeley Ph.D. recipient, eminent faculty members shared their experiences with depression and anxiety to help bring these struggles into the open.

Thanks Wendy @wendyingram.bsky.social and Dragonfly @dragonflymh.bsky.social for your pioneering work promoting mental health wellness in academia. MCB @berkeleymcb.bsky.social at UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social appreciates your efforts and expertise. news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/21/a...

23.04.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats to MCB's Diana Bautista and David Bilder for being named as AAAS Fellows @aaas.org! @bilderlab.bsky.social πŸ‘ πŸŽ‰https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/27/seven-faculty-members-named-fellows-of-american-association-for-the-advancement-of-science/

31.03.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats to MCB faculty David Raulet and graduate student Elle Andrews on receiving 2025 Berkeley Graduate Mentoring Awards! πŸ‘πŸŽ‰ @davidraulet.bsky.social
grad.berkeley.edu/news/celebra...

01.04.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bakar Fellows Program Welcomes Spring 2025 Ignite Scholars - Bakar Fellows Program Meet the Fall 2024 cohort of the Bakar Ignite Scholars Program.

Congratulations to MCB undergraduatesΒ Carolyn Nguyen (NuΓ±ez Lab), Karla Tapia (Hurley Lab), Shriprithi Vel Murugan (Hurley Lab), and Selina Wu (Hurley Lab) who were recently named Spring 2025 Ignite Scholars by the Bakar Fellows Program! πŸ‘
bakarfellows.berkeley.edu/bakar-fellow...

02.04.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Image of Heald lab group in eucalyptus grove posing like frogs and smiling

Image of Heald lab group in eucalyptus grove posing like frogs and smiling

Our #berkeleyMCB community is already coming together to make a BIG impact for #CalBigGive! As a special incentive, once we receive 100 gifts 🎁 it will unlock 2 special donations from members of our community. Please help us meet this funding challenge! bit.ly/BigGiveMCB25

13.03.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

Interesting analysis of the amazing economic activity fueled by NIH-funded research - a return on investment of $2.56 for every $1 in awards: www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

13.03.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Homepage - openRxiv openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

11.03.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2573    πŸ” 851    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 42
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UC Berkeley Scientists Protest Trump Administration’s Cuts to Research Funding | KQED Hundreds of UC Berkeley scientists and students rallied in support of research funding as President Donald Trump delayed and slashed research budgets.

I'm glad to have attended two Stand up for Science #standupforscience rallies last Friday, including this one at UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social -https://www.kqed.org/news/12030313/uc-berkeley-scientists-protest-trump-administrations-cuts-to-research-funding

10.03.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Crowd at the stand up for science rally in San Francisco.

Crowd at the stand up for science rally in San Francisco.

Good crowd at #standupforscience in San Francisco and great speeches by CA State Senator Scott Wiener
@scottwiener.bsky.social and Stanford (also former UC Berkeley) professor Carolyn Bertozzi
@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social

07.03.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I've been off of social media for some time now and surprisingly glad to be back on again!

28.02.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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