Congrats to MCB's Susan Marqusee @marquseelab.bsky.social on being selected as a 2025 Protein Society Fellow @proteinsociety.bsky.social! ππ
05.09.2025 20:02 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1@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/
Congrats to MCB's Susan Marqusee @marquseelab.bsky.social on being selected as a 2025 Protein Society Fellow @proteinsociety.bsky.social! ππ
05.09.2025 20:02 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1James 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! ππ
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Congrats to MCB's James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social on receiving the ASBMB 2026 Avanti Award in Lipids @asbmb.bsky.social! ππ
05.09.2025 19:31 β π 15 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Our newest preprint on bioRxiv βͺ@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 π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0We'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
Congratulations James @olzmannlab.bsky.social for being elected an ASCB Fellow!
22.08.2025 18:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Exciting research out of the Nayak lab! π§ͺ
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/s...
Yvette Fisher named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
And another one for MCB's Yvette Fisher @yvetteefisher.bsky.social! π₯Congrats on being named a
@hhmi.org 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! π₯https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars/2025-scholars
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! ππ
www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
Congrats to MCB's Yang Dan & Donald Rio on their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! ππ www.amacad.org/new-members-...
24.04.2025 17:36 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congrats to MCB's Diana Bautista and David Bilder for being named as AAAS Fellows @aaas.org! @bilderlab.bsky.social π πhttps://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 π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Congrats to MCB faculty David Raulet and graduate student Elle Andrews on receiving 2025 Berkeley Graduate Mentoring Awards! ππ @davidraulet.bsky.social
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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! π
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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 π 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 π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Interesting 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Big 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 π 2573 π 851 π¬ 55 π 42I'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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Crowd 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
I've been off of social media for some time now and surprisingly glad to be back on again!
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