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Check out this interview with one of MCB's newest faculty Tycho Mevissen @tychomevissen.bsky.social, on his background, his lab's research, and future goals: ls.berkeley.edu/news/tycho-m...

"School was not easy for me." Medicine laureate Carol Greider achieved success in molecular biology in the same way she overcame dyslexia as a child: with persistence and creativity. Finding it difficult to read the traditional way, she taught herself to memorise words and letter order.

We're hiring two research associates to work on our new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) BIOGAMI program studying disordered proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases! Learn more and see other open positions here: https://innovativegenomics.org/careers/

Congratulations to our 2026 MCB Outstanding Postdoc Award recipients Thomas Li (Bateup Lab) & Rachana Deven Somaiya (Feller Lab)! 👏 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

Reminder🎗️: MCB is hiring Assistant Professors across 3 divisions! 🗓️ Application Deadline: October 19, 2026

MCB postdoc Silvan Spiri is the lead author of exciting new research from the labs of Gloria Brar and Elçin Ünal that sheds new light on the mechanisms underlying gametogenic rejuvenation! 🔬

Predicting how #RNA folds would be a valuable tool for scientists, but #AI has not been able to crack the problem. A team at the IGI made significant progress on two key hurdles: limited structural data, and the fact that RNA can take on multiple shapes. Read more: https://ow.ly/Yjgo50ZJcU3

Exciting research from the lab of MCB's Helen Bateup! 🧪 news.berkeley.edu/2026/09/23/h...

Congrats to MCB's Fyodor Urnov @urnov.bsky.social who was honored with the 2026 UC Regents Innovation Gamechanger Award! 👏🎉 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

Spotlight: Bartolutti, Brar et al. @berkeleymcb.bsky.social (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) describe how physiological UPR induction drives #gametogenesis in budding #yeast. David Pincus and Vladimir Denic discuss the work: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Genetics #ProteinHomeostasis

Congratulations to MCB's Hernan Garcia, who has been named a 2026 Schmidt Science Polymath by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! Garcia joins a cohort of eight scientists pursuing ambitious questions beyond their established areas of research. 👏🧪 www.schmidtsciences.org/2026-polymat...

Before #CRISPR, there was VIPR — a tool viruses used to battle each other with a never-before-seen genetic coding system, uncovered by researchers in the Doudna Lab. Read more here: https://ow.ly/KblS50ZOxwQ #AI #LanguageModel #RNA

As a postdoc, Phillip Cleves became the first person to genetically modify #coral. Now, he's trying to figure out how to save reefs and the magnificent ecosystems they host. Learn more about IGI's newest investigator: https://innovativegenomics.org/news/saving-coral-reefs-phil-cleves/

Exciting research from the labs of MCB’s David Savage @savagecatsonly.bsky.social and Christina Listgarten, featuring MCB postdoc Maria Lukarska @marialukarska.bsky.social! 🧬🔬

UC Berkeley has been named the top public university in the U.S., and No. 9 overall, according to @forbes.com latest list of America's Top Colleges. https://bit.ly/4AedQEb

Congratulations to Gokul Upadhyayula @supgokul.bsky.social on his promotion to MCB Associate Professor in Residence! 👏 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

Congrats to MCB PhD alum Sophie Dumont @dumontlabucsf.bsky.social on being named a 2026 ASCB Fellow! 👏

Congratulations to Daniel Fletcher of UC Berkeley on being named a 2026 ASCB Fellow! https://www.ascb.org/society-news/fifteen-visionary-scientists-named-2026-ascb-fellows/

QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Jennifer Doudna helped unlock the power of CRISPR. Today, pioneers like Victoria Gray are living proof of how gene editing moves from lab breakthrough to transformative real-world cure. Read more in Berkeley News

Insights into longevity & virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes International & fantastic collab. with @psudmant.bsky.social @denard.bsky.social Labs ! Major credit to the 2 leading scientists: Juan Vazquez & @lauterbur.bsky.social now with their own labs! You 2 rock! (1/n)

Congrats to the @ascbiology.bsky.social MBoC 2026 Early Career Award winners! 🧬👏 Their outstanding papers showcase exciting science and important contributions to the field. Drubin Lab: @drubin.bsky.social, Samantha Smith & Yuichiro Iwamoto and Ünal Lab: Madison Walsh www.ascb.org/society-news...

This summer, the UC-HBCU Rising Stars program hosted 8 talented undergrads from HBCUs at IGI labs across the University of California where they did cutting-edge genomic research. In August, students presented their work at a showcase with Jennifer Doudna and CA Congresswoman Lateefah Simon!

Two months are left before the deadlines for these three junior faculty positions in my wonderful department at Berkeley. Please consider joining us! I love Cal. 🧸💙💛

In @jcb.org, Bartolutti, Brar et al. @berkeleymcb.bsky.social show that physiological function for the #UnfoldedProteinResponse differs dramatically from its canonical role in driving a transcriptional program. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Development #ProteinHomeostasis #ER_literature #Meiosis

Congratulations to Matt Welch of UC Berkeley, recipient of the 2026 Sandra Masur Senior Leadership Award for outstanding scientific achievement and leadership in mentoring the next generation of scientists. https://www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-announces-2026-honorific-award-winners/

MCB is hiring Assistant Professors across 3 divisions!: 🧪BBS: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05483 🧬GGED: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 🦠IMM: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05486 🗓️ Application Deadline: October 19, 2026 🔗 Click the links or scan the QR codes to learn more and apply

Congrats to MCB's Jennifer Doudna for being named a 2026 American Chemical Society (ACS) fellow! 🎉 👏 @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social, @acs.org www.acs.org/pressroom/ne...

Congrats to MCB postdocs Jean Jacobs, Jack Liu & Feng Yuan for being named Life Sciences Research Foundation's (LSRF) fellows! @chamslab.bsky.social, @robzonculab.bsky.social, @drubin.bsky.social, @nkwhiteman.bsky.social mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

Congrats to MCB's Diana Bautista, Samantha Lewis & Matt Welch for being ASCB Honorific Award Winners! 👏🎉@ascbbiology.bsky.social, @dianambautista.bsky.social, @samlewis.bsky.social, @mattwelchlab.bsky.social

Congrats to MCB's Dan Fletcher & Roberto Zoncu @robzonculab.bsky.social on being named 2026 ASCB Fellows! 👏🎉@ascbiology.bsky.social

MCB's Priya Moorjani & her lab have developed a novel genomic analysis method that identified DNA inherited from two previously unknown ancient human relatives, providing new insights into the complexity of human evolution. news.berkeley.edu/2026/07/30/n...

Check out our new preprint on base editors and the thread below!

A new multi-institutional initiative funded by ARPA-H through its THRIVE program is developing affordable gene-editing therapies for inborn errors of immunity in children. The award of up to $27.7M supports a platform approach to rapidly treat inborn errors of immunity: https://ow.ly/1MfE50ZsZEh

"I've been coming since I was a postdoc, and every time I felt welcome, energized, and inspired." Watch Eva Nogales share why she keeps coming back to #CellBio. https://youtu.be/aHIkdLaG1Rw Learn more: https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/

It was a privilege to lead the biochemistry efforts for the first preprint from the Nomburg lab! Check this exploration of conserved protein folds adapted to suppress immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

At the IGI, we're using #robotics to accelerate research in critical areas like #Parkinson's disease. Learn more about one of our favorite robots and how IGI's Hanqin Li, Tomy Tran, and Dirk Hockemeyer are changing neurodegenerative disease research: https://ow.ly/RpMM50Zm85m

Thrilled to share our collab led by Grace Hibshman with the Shipman lab! Type IX retron-Kva2 structure reveals phage detection via an HTH fold, not a primary sequence. We computationally designed triggers that program bacteria cell death, pointing toward designer antimicrobials.

Out recently in Nature, new research from Jennifer Doudna, postdoc @jingkunzeng.bsky.social, and collaborators shows a #CRISPR-based method for selectively killing "undruggable" #cancers by recognizing cells with cancer-causing mutations and shredding their DNA. Learn more: https://ow.ly/NRss50Z8tQK

From Nobel Prizes to national parks, here are 25 UC Berkeley breakthroughs to commemorate America’s 250th birthday. #UCBerkeley #America250 #Innovation

🎧 Listening tip! Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate and #CRISPR co‑developer, discusses how #GenomeEditing supports the development of more resilient and nutritious crops, while also promoting broad access & public dialogue 🌱 https://ow.ly/Yb3v50ZjZ24

Out today in @science.org, Doudna lab researchers describe an #AI-assisted method for designing enhanced genome editors, testing close to 2000 in lab. Read more: innovativegenomics.org/news/ai-desi...

Thank you Natalia Mesa at the @thetransmitter.bsky.social for highlighting our labs preprint on synaptic mechanisms of head direction learning!! 🪰🧭 Work from @markplitt.bsky.social in my lab in collaboration with the Jayaraman lab! www.thetransmitter.org/learning-and...

Corals and the algae that they host are touted as one of the greatest partnerships in nature. But this symbiosis probably didn't start out harmoniously. In this edition of #ScienceAdviser: the story of a beautiful friendship that began as a break-in www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧪

At the IGI, we're using #robotics to accelerate research in critical areas like #Parkinson's disease. Learn more about one of our favorite robots and how IGI's Hanqin Li, Tomy Tran, and Dirk Hockemeyer are changing neurodegenerative disease research: ow.ly/RpMM50Zm85m

🧵 New paper alert! Today on bioRxiv, we show how a microtubule (MT) associated protein, MTCL1, links 2 regulatory layers: mechanical MT stabilization and writing of then tubulin code. A multi-lab effort driven by Juan Perez-Bertoldi and Julie Dang spanning atoms to organisms. 1/n

Just out from IGI's Jennifer Doudna, Fyodor Urnov, Alex Marson, Brad Ringeisen, and collaborators, a new Nature perspective piece on medical genome standards. 🧬 Read here: https://ow.ly/HSXz50Zn0z7

MCB is excited to host three Howard University undergrad researchers this summer! 🔬Recently, they had the opportunity to meet Chancellor Lyons @chancellorlyons.bsky.social A big thank you to their MCB faculty research mentors: @mengmengfu.bsky.social, @psudmant.bsky.social & Laurent Coscoy! 👏

In a new state-of-the-art laboratory, MCB's Phillip Cleves @pcleves.bsky.social and his team are discovering how the symbiotic relationship between algae and corals evolved. news.berkeley.edu/2026/07/01/s...