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We have 9 spots left, so please sign up before Monday! We are open to all Berkeley grad students, but particularly encourage incoming first years to sign up for this FREE bootcamp. #WomenInSTEM #Microscopy #AcademicTwitter

Listen to this Cryo-Talk featuring MCB’s Eva Nogales The Nogales Lab who was selected by Thermo Fisher Scientific as one of the international leaders in Cryo-electron microscopy! bitesizebio.com/podcast/eva-no…

Thank you Regeneron for this amazing award and congrats to the top winners! It was such an inspiring process to write a dream proposal and think big about global problems and then meet some of the scientific minds trying to tackle them. 🤩

Hola, our latest work is now up on PNAS. Mechanical disassembly of nucleosomes using optical tweezers with fluorescence detection (Fleezers). CDDC, Cristhian Cañari Chumpitaz, Robert, Juan Pablo, Meng Zhang, Enze, Andy Quaen Chen, Michael, Ryan, Bibiana, and Carlos. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Embryonic retinal waves! In new study led by superstar student Christiane W. Voufo, Andy Quaen Chen and Ben Smith, a team led by @atiriac1, we describe waves at early stages of development – long before proper neural circuits are present in the retina. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

QB3-Berkeley's next director is Sanjay Kumar! Join us in congratulating and welcoming our new director 🎉 bit.ly/3QDdZtB

Congrats to all the stellar scientists that were awarded an amazing HHMI Hannah Gray fellowship today! Special shout-out to Aaron Joiner Hurley Lab UC Berkeley UC Berkeley MCB! hhmi.org/news/25-early-…

Our review on advances in covalent drug discovery by Lydia Boike, PhD Nathaniel Henning in Nature Drug Discovery! nature.com/articles/s4157…

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Excited to share our new work out today in Science Magazine, led by stellar postdoc Regina @hijaishin! We report the discovery of LYCHOS, a candidate cholesterol sensor for the mTORC1 kinase. Below is a brief summary of the story.

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…

TENURED! Three days since I got the official letter and I'm still in disbelief. I was never the strongest student and never expected to even get into grad school. This win is for all of you who took a chance on me & mí familia ❤️ & all lab members. Thank you, gracias #SiSePuede

.UC Berkeley's Biophysics graduate program is open for applications! The program is home to remarkable students, stellar faculty, fantastic facilities, and a host of wonderful opportunities in the Bay Area. Learn more about admissions: bit.ly/BerkeleyBiophy… Please retweet!

Incredibly proud to see our lab member and Berkeley Biophysics PhD student Kahmina Ford featured in the CWU Crimson & Black alum mag! Prepare to be inspired... QB3-Berkeley cwucrimsonandblack.com/story/biophysi…

Congrats to our graduate advisor staff member Kate Chase, who is the recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Advising and Student Services Award! Huge congrats Kate, our students know you’re the best! 🎉🥳✨🙌 advisingmatters.berkeley.edu/our-community/…

Congrats to Berkeley Biophysics and Berkeley Bioengineer Prof. Aaron Streets Aaron Streets for the Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity! 👏👏👏Dr. Streets leads top-notch research, is director of the BioESP program, and cofounded the Next Gen Faculty symposium!

Happy to share this preprint, led by soon-to-be-PhD Daniel Rosenberg Berkeley Biophysics/Berkeley Lab (& my 1st corr author paper!). ⚛️🧬 doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

I am super proud of this piece authored by lena vantablackmon 🦠🔬💻 (depreciated) and I - we synthesized stats on #gender #diversity in the #imaging and #optics field and how academic + career bootcamps like ours at Cal can increase #belonging for women in optics. 🔬👩🏾‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jm…

We are excited to share our EVENTS for #BlackInBiophysicsWeek 2023!!! 🙌🏾 We will be hosting #BIBPSWeek from Monday, 5/22 to Friday 5/26. Please RT and help us spread the word! A thread of Events below👇🏾 #BIBPS23 #BlackInBiophysics #BlackInBiophys #BlackInX