Congrats to MCB's Evan Miller on receiving this grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation! 👏🎉

Coming up November 6th — join us to hear about the latest in #CRISPR for human health from IGI's Brad Ringeisen, Fyodor Urnov, and Carlotta Ronda as part of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's Basic Science Lights the Way lecture series! Register here: https://basicscience.berkeley.edu/

Andrew Dillin is a professor of immunology and molecular medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. In his spare time, he is forming a new Center for Unmet, Rare and Emerging Diseases (CURED) that aims to discover cures other organizations are not pursuing. gobears.me/47pCGn5

Excited to share my postdoc work @olzmannlab.bsky.social! We found lipid droplets, the cell’s lipid storage depots, are subject to oxidative damage and are protected by FSP1. Loss of FSP1 triggers droplet peroxidation and cell death, revealing a new layer of lipid quality control! shorturl.at/B5XYD

We’re thrilled to see this groundbreaking work from @mti-ucb.bsky.social Faculty Co-director @dannomura.bsky.social! TRACERs represent a significant leap forward in targeting “undruggable” transcription factors with small molecules. We are honored to support this work! #Epigenetics #DrugDiscovery

Congrats to MCB's Professor (Affiliated) Daniel Fletcher on his election to the National Academy of Medicine! 🎉👏

UC Berkeley PIs & collaborators: MTI invites proposals for its newly launched Parkinson’s Therapeutics Program! Offering up to 3 awards of $90k, and additional funded access to MTI's drug-hunting infrastructure. 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 More info 👇 moleculartherapeutics.org/mti-launches...

I'm hiring a lab technician to help me explore some exciting new questions about virus-host interactions! Biochemistry and/or mammalian cell culture experience is desired.

FWIW we also find that flies show coagulopathy, another big cause of death of cancer patients pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37354901/

Eric Topol interviews Jennifer Doudna on the bright future of genome editing therapy in curing disease (Apple Podcasts). There’s an FDA-approved CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease out now with others to come. [youtube.com]

@mti-ucb.bsky.social is proud to have contributed to this exciting look at innovation at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Congrats to all involved on bringing "Startup Campus" to life! #StartupCampus #BerkeleyInnovation #MTI

The University of California just set a world record: 5 Nobel Prizes awarded to its faculty and alumni this year! 🏆🥇 A feat that underscores the impact of bold science and strong research ecosystems. Read more here: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-wins... #NobelPrize #Research #Innovation

13 years ago, the revolutionary genetic tool #CRISPR/Cas9 was published in Science, work that Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won a #NobelPrize for in 2020. On #WorldCRISPRDay, read the landmark paper that describes the discovery: https://scim.ag/42JHuSN

Thrilled to share our Science cover! VIPS (volumetric imaging via photochemical sectioning) eliminates working-distance limits for whole-mount, nanoscale imaging. LLSM + photodegradable hydrogel + petabyte-scale compute → mapped axons & myelin across two mouse olfactory bulbs (WT vs NPC1).

Welcome to Thomas Mann who will be joining the MCB department as an assistant professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine on Jan. 1st 2026! 🎉 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

Please join us in congratulating ASBMB member Jennifer Doudna, who has been awarded the prestigious 2026 Joseph Priestley Medal for her groundbreaking work on #RNA molecules with enzymatic functions by @acs.org. ow.ly/8l9u50X8Sre#RNA#ASBMBMemberNews

In advance of his November visit, @protocolsio.bsky.social prez Lenny Teytelman (@lteytelman.bsky.social) spoke to Berkeley's Leah Keiser about his path to founding a startup acquired by @springernature.com. Read the interview: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/profess...

New paper from the lab. Molecular characterization of the symbiont-containing organelle with proteomics and reverse genetics in Aiptasia and coral.

Thrilled to share our new cryo-ET preprint on astrocytes, a collaboration with @mengmengfu.bsky.social here at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, revealing the nm-scale cytoskeletal architecture of ramified astrocytes reminiscing in vivo morphology. Check out the cytoskeleton compartmentalization!

We used live-cell imaging with plus-end binding protein EB3 to determine microtubule polarity in astrocytes for the first time. They are ~88% plus-ends out. 3/x

Coming up November 6th — join us to hear about the latest in #CRISPR for human health from IGI's Brad Ringeisen, Fyodor Urnov, and Carlotta Ronda as part of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's Basic Science Lights the Way lecture series! Register here: https://basicscience.berkeley.edu/

Reposting link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reminder 🎗️: Applications for Assistant Professor of Molecular Therapeutics in MCB are due on 10/20/25!

Reminder 🎗️: Applications for Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine in MCB are due on 10/20/25!

Excited about turning basic science into new therapeutic modalities? Want to work with brilliant and *friendly* colleagues? Hoping to be part of a public university that shapes California? Then come join us #MolecularTherapeutics, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social !!! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05098

MCB's Andrew Dillin on CURED, UC Berkeley’s new approach to advance medicine and global health: ls.berkeley.edu/news/andrew-...

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 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

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! givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/1...

Congrats to MCB's Jennifer Doudna @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 ASM Lifetime Achievement Award! 👏🥂@asm.org asm.org/press-releas...

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...

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...

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! 👍🎉

Congrats to MCB's James Nuñez @jamesknunez.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Vallee Scholar @valleefoundation.bsky.social! 🎉👏 thevalleefoundation.org/news/2025-va...

Congrats to MCB's Priya Moorjani on her promotion to MCB Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development! 👏🥂 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

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...

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 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

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

Exciting research out of the Nayak lab! 🧪 news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/s...

Congrats to MCB's Ana Arruda on being named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences! 👏🎉 @arrudalab.bsky.social‬ www.pew.org/en/about/new...

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

Congrats to MCB's Jennifer Doudna @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 ACS Priestley Medal from the @acs.org! 👏🏅 www.acs.org/pressroom/ne...

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!

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.