Congrats to MCB undergrad Carolyn Nguyen on being named UC Berkeley's 1st Churchill Scholar since 2016! 👍🎉 ls.berkeley.edu/news/carolyn...

A little late on here but happy to share my 3rd first author paper from grad school finally out in Science Advances!! In collaboration with James Olzmann's group, we find that Tregs utilize FSP1/Aifm2 for preventing lipid peroxide accumulation and preserve their suppressive function in tumor models.

New #cancer #immunotherapy research funding has been awarded to IGI's Jennifer Doudna and Alex Marson by the American Cancer Society! Learn more here: https://ow.ly/JCAH50Y7Mwi

🧬 Meet MTI awardees Ross Wilson & Hanqin Li! They’re using CRISPR base editors to nudge α-syn levels down, aiming to prevent Lewy bodies before they form. Translational genetics in action. #CRISPR #Parkinsons #MTIAwards 🔗 Read more at moleculartherapeutics.org/2026-mti-par... @rosswilsonlab.org

Congrats to MTI's Parkinson’s Therapeutics Awardees including MCB's Ross Wilson, Hanqin Li, Eunyong Park & Laurie Wang! 🎉👏 @rosswilsonlab.org

Congrats to MCB's Susan Marqusee @marquseelab.bsky.social on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) @nasonline.org Council! 👏🎉 www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...

Congrats to the 2026 MCB Lisa Eshun-Wilson Community Awardees: Izaiah Ornelas @izaiahornelas.bsky.social & Julia Falo-Sanjuan! 👏Read more about their exceptional leadership and commitment to community engagement and mentorship. mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

Featuring MCB's Eric Betzig! Life in four dimensions: When biology outpaces the brain www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

Congratulations to MCB faculty David Bilder, Rebecca Heald, James Hurley and Gary Karpen on receiving Miller Research Professorship Awards! 👏🎉 @bilderlab.bsky.social @jimhurley.bsky.social mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

ASBMB member news Congratulations to @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social, Michael Ibba and Kim Orth, who were recognized by @asm.org for their achievements in leadership, education and research. www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

We are seeking a new Staff Research Associate: 75% research, 25% lab management. A recent graduate with a major in molecular and cell biology or a similar field is ideal. Staff Research Associate (9613C), Molecular & Cell Biology. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucb/EMPL...

Thrilled to have contributed to this work led by @jgcastillo.bsky.social during his PhD at UC Berkeley w/ Michel DuPage. Targeting FSP1 in T cells boosts anti-tumor immunity by relieving Treg suppression, revealing a new immunomodulatory therapeutic axis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to MCB's Dan Portnoy on receiving the 2025 Excellence in Advising Outstanding Faculty Advisor award from Berkeley’s Council on Advising and Student Services! 🎉👏 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

New in Science Magazine Science Advances from the Doudna Lab, Rubin Lab and Cress Lab —Identification of proteins influencing #CRISPR-associated #transposases for enhanced #GenomeEditing. Read here: https://ow.ly/U0s450XS82n#CRISPR-associated

New preprint 👉Doudna x Bryant x Jacobsen x Savage collaboration! Work led by @zehanzhou.bsky.social, I. Saffarian-Deemyad, @honglue.bsky.social, T. Weiss We dissect how stepwise DNA unwinding gates TnpB genome editing, revealing how unwound DNA states enhance cleavage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out the latest episode of Rewriting the Code, featuring Jennifer Doudna and #SickleCell patient pioneer Victoria Gray who was cured with a #CRISPR-based treatment in a groundbreaking clinical trial: https://ow.ly/t6FY50XVNO7

A new review from the Doudna Lab lab on tissue-targeted in vivo delivery of gene editors: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02945-w #CRISPR #delivery

Congratulations to MCB postdoc Joseph Lobel (Ingolia Lab) on receiving the 2026 RNA Society Scaringe Young Scientist Award! 👏🎉 @rnasociety.bsky.social @nickingolia.bsky.social mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

One of our own has contributed to a newly approved medicine. The MTI at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social congratulates the Cytokinetics team and our Executive Director, Dr. Julia Schaletzky, on FDA approval of aficamten for #HCM, available starting mid-January. #BerkeleyHealth #GoBears #patientsfirst

The world of genome editing is moving at a fast pace, and the IGI is right in the middle of the action. Here’s a look back at some of our most exciting news stories you don't want to miss from 2025. Read here: https://ow.ly/Z1n650XJXGS #CRISPR

Celebrating Matt Welch’s @mattwelchlab.bsky.social Legacy as MBoC Editor-in-Chief: Innovations and Impact www.ascb.org/society-news...

🎺New paper alert🎺 Out now in Nature Chemical Biology from IGI's Jennifer Doudna (Doudna Lab) and collaborators: Temporal photoproximity labeling of ligand-activated EGFR neighborhoods using MultiMap Read here: https://ow.ly/izGo50XAkog

@mti-ucb.bsky.social, we are thrilled that our Executive Director, Dr. Julia Schaletzky, is highlighted in @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social’s Top Stories of 2025 for her work advancing campus viewpoint diversity. Read here to learn more: news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/15/n...

Research in Filipa Rijo-Ferrera’s lab at #UCBerkeley shows both #parasites and their #mosquito hosts share #circadian rhythms that time biting and transmissibility. Targeting these internal clocks may offer a new path to reducing #malaria and other mosquito-borne illnesses. bit.ly/4q3El9s

ICYMI: #CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna joins @euanashley.bsky.social on Episode 3 of The Future of Medicine for a deep, wide-ranging conversation about how #GeneEditing is reshaping the landscape of modern medicine. Watch on our YouTube or stream here: https://bit.ly/43LGRZv

⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Addition Therapeutics, a spinout of QB3-Berkeley affiliate Kathleen Collins' lab, has emerged from stealth with $100M in funding from SR One, the Gates Foundation, and more. Its PRINT platform uses retrotransposon machinery to deliver precise gene therapy. www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/addi...

Happy Holidays from MCB! 2025 has been a year marked by exciting discoveries, shared successes, and the remarkable resilience and dedication of our community. We hope you enjoy our year-end video highlighting some of our 2025 memories together. vimeo.com/1147759879?f...

Congrats to MCB's James Olzmann! 🎉👏 @olzmannlab.bsky.social

My wonderful lab members at our holiday party. I was quite nostalgic about celebrating together this year. But my misty eyes quickly dried when someone, who shall not be named, would not let me keep banana-grams during the White Elephant gift exchange!

Excited to highlight our latest bioRxiv led by grad student Zoe Duong and Qian Shao. We report a chemistry-centric, chemoproteomics-enabled strategy to discover non-degradative molecular glues for transcriptional rewiring.
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The first-ever personalized CRISPR medicine, genomics meets AI + automation, editing gut microbes for health + climate applications, field trials for climate-resistant crops — 2025 has been an exciting year for the IGI! Learn about these + more in our annual Impact Report: https://ow.ly/h2OA50XIAVV

New from IGI's @marsonlab.bsky.social and @juliacarnevale.bsky.social, with co-authors @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social, @j-eyquem.bsky.social, James Nuñez!

*First preprint from our lab* !!!!! How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭 led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman: “Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread ⬇️

Portnoy Lab microbiologists brought hands-on science to a local elementary school by creating a Microbe Circuit—sparking curiosity and inspiring future scientists. 🧪🦠 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

Happy to see our News & Views is out! We highlight two landmark papers demonstrating the potential for therapeutic targeting of FSP1 and #ferroptosis in in vivo cancer models. Beautiful work from @ubellackerlab.bsky.social, Thales Papagiannakopoulos, and colleagues. 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Which came first — the comb jelly or the sponge? The battle over the root of the animal tree of life rages on, with the latest research from QB3-Berkeley's Nicole King coming down on the side of the sponge. Read more from the UC Berkeley news team: news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/19/d...

🎧 Berkeley Talks: For Nobel laureate Randy Schekman, it began with pond scum and a toy microscope. Hear more in his podcast on Berkeley News. news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/28/b...

Out today in Science Magazine — First author Veronika Kivenson and PIs Jill Banfield (The Banfield Lab) and Alanna Schepartz team up to reveal a new genetic code in #archaea, with implications for #methane and #climate, and #bioengineering! Learn more: https://ow.ly/Kuem50Xurh0

Out now in the The Atlantic — IGI's Jennifer Doudna and Fyodor Urnov on this year's remarkable progress in using #CRISPR to treat rare diseases. Read here: https://ow.ly/5vJ750XFQon

Congratulations to Matthew and Josh! Check out our extensible Python based 2DTM package, check out our example adaptations for optimizing template parameters and constrained searches and customize to suit your own experiments. Stay tuned for exciting future developments in the pipeline :)

The Sudmant Lab & Wilsterman Lab are hiring a postdoc! Come work on the genetics and evolution of the placenta and dissecting genetic adaptations to altitude in deer mice! Check out more details here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... www.sudmantlab.org www.thewilstermanlab.com Please Share!

📣 Last mito911 webinar of 2025! Join us for @micharapelab.bsky.social on Dec 11th 8am PST. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

✨New preprint! 🧵1/4 Excited to share our work on AI-guided design of minimal RNA-guided nucleases. Amazing work by @petrskopintsev.bsky.social @isabelesain.bsky.social @evandeturk.bsky.social et al! Multi-lab collaboration @banfieldlab.bsky.social @jhdcate.bsky.social @jacobsenucla.bsky.social🧬 🔗👇

Huge credit to @bmanohar.bsky.social for leading this collaborative effort, based at @innovativegenomics.bsky.social & @berkeleymcb.bsky.social, with major contributions from OSU's Krys Bankiewicz & Russ Lonser, as well as crucial support from NIH's SCGE consortium @scge.bsky.social

Honored that this work represents my first "first-author" preprint of my PhD journey at @berkeleymcb.bsky.social. Grateful for the incredible mentorship and collaborations. Neuro-PERC was a true multi-institution effort. Read the thread for the details!

#ArticleinPress: Colocalization of Cancer-Associated Biomarkers on Single Extracellular Vesicles for Early Detection of Cancer. Authors from @berkeleymcb.bsky.social. #OpenAccess text: https://www.jmdjournal.org/article/S1525-1578(24)00209-5/fulltext

Exciting research from the Nayak Lab! news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/01/a...

Planning to attend the JPM healthcare conference? RSVP to join us for the MCB alumni reception on January 14, 2026 | 5:30p-8:30p | 111 Minna Gallery. Rsvp here: bit.ly/mcbJPM2026

Dean of Biological Sciences & MCB faculty Richard Harland's research inspires emerging treatment for rare bone disease: ls.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...