Classes start today! Welcome to all our new students. We are excited to see all the great science you do! 🥼 Learn more about our 2021 entering PhD class ➡️ bit.ly/3jgre5r

Call for action: A fellow member of the Berkeley MCB PhD community has asked for our help in contacting our representatives and spreading this message. They have not been able to contact their family or friends in Sudan since the coup, and need our help. docs.google.com/document/d/1Rc…

So excited about our new preprint! In a tour de force, super star grad student Melissa Roberts used genome-edited reporter cells and a series of CRISPR screens to identify mechanisms of PLIN2 and #LipidDroplet regulation under different metabolic states. 🤩biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Because University of California has tried to suppress faculty support for employees striking today, I think it particularly important to say that I offer my complete solidarity with @uaw2865 UAW Local 5810 and their effort to improve the living and working conditions at UC.

Teaching as a graduate student instructor UC Berkeley UC Berkeley MCB has been incredibly inspiring and rewarding. I *love* my undergrads and I’m so honored that many of them joined me to picket alongside 48k workers statewide fighting for fair contracts! #FairUCNow #ucstrike

An update from UAW 2865 bargaining team member Jess Banks, at a rally yesterday at UC Berkeley. Our organizing has already led to some progress, but there is still a ways to go toward fair contracts! The latest: UC told us they will not be bargaining today. #UAWonStrike

We’re just professors, standing in front of UC admin…. asking them to bargain in good faith! #WeTeachUC #FairUCNow

Inspiring to see so many folks out doing the work and demanding more from UC

😭 Not the UC Provost claiming that postdocs and grad students are only "part-time" workers. 😭😭😭 #FairUCNow

Strikes are supposed to inconvenience customers and stakeholders of the institution being struck. If you work to mitigate that inconvenience, you are working against the strike. You're free to do that, but own your actions.

Interested in performing a pooled #CRISPR screen? Check out our new STAR Protocols w/ detailed step-by-step methods, from design to screening to analysis. Terrific work from Zhipeng Li Melissa Roberts Alyssa Mathiowetz @DavidMorgens star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/2569