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New study shows chronic jet lag increases risk of liver cancer
Mice spontaneously developed liver cancer under conditions that mimicked the chronic jet lag associated with many weeks of round-trip overseas flights.
Student Spotlight: Mayuresh Visswanathan
The fourth-year forestry and business administration double major talks about woodworking, forestry camp, and his time at UC Berkeley.
Fu and Nayak named 2024 Sloan Fellows
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology Meng-meng Fu and Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development Dipti Nayak on being named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows. They are among 9 early-career researchers at Berkeley to receive this competitive and prestigious award. Learn more...
From zero to hero in budget-making
Exploring the connections between science fiction and climate change
UC Berkeley professors Daniel Aldana Cohen and Katherine Snyder spoke to award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson about climate, politics, and the future.
How a pair of Bay Area bobcats fueled one student's passion for wildlife photography
Berkeley News recently interviewed fourth-year forestry and ecosystems management major Vishal Subramanyan about his work as a naturalist and wildlife photographer.
Rubinsky’s coral preservation work featured on PBS News
Artist, Writer, and Naturalist James Prosek to visit campus
A guest of the Berkeley Wildlife Program and Stone Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Prosek will deliver a public lecture on Friday, February 9th.
Unpacking plant diversity and climate change in California
Dean David Ackerly offers an overview of how California’s native flora has responded to climate change through time in a new Jepson Herbaria mini-workshop.
Want to preserve groundwater? Tax it.
Research by Professor Ellen Bruno found that groundwater demand in California’s Pajaro Valley shrank in response to long-term price increases.
The booming business of discovering your biological age
Researchers make advances toward more effective IBD therapies
Alum’s Wines Named to Wine Enthusiast’s 2023 Top 100 List
Jim Bundschu (BS '66 Agricultural Economics) revitalized his family’s 100-year-old vineyards. Today, his winery's sustainable, organic wines are receiving highest honors.
Application Now Open: IB Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program
Justice Williams and Stephen Eun Song, 2023 IBSURE interns.
The IB Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (IB SURE) Program has now opened it's application. This program is for undergraduates or recent undergraduates who are considering a graduate degree in the biological sciences. Program runs from May 31 - Aug 9, 2024. Interested students should apply by April 1, 2024. See here for more information.
Student Spotlight: Shreya Chaudhuri
The third-year environmental science and human geography student recently completed the Millennium Fellowship program through the United Nations Academic Impact initiative.
White House rule dramatically deregulated wetlands, streams, and drinking water
New research co-authored by ARE's Joe Shapiro and Simon Greenhill uses machine learning to reveal which streams and wetlands are protected—or not—by changing Clean Water Act regulations.
Sparrows uniquely adapted to Bay Area marshes are losing their uniqueness
Phred Benham, a postdoc in the Bowie Lab.
A new genomic analysis of Savannah sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) from around the state — many of them collected as far back as 1889, their specimens stored in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley — shows that over the past 128 years, the Bay Area's sparrow's adaptation to salt water is being diminished by interbreeding with inland sparrows adapted to fresh water. Read More...
Over-credited cookstove offsets undermine climate action
A UC Berkeley study reveals that cookstoves, the fastest-growing project type on the voluntary carbon market, generated 9.2 times more credits than appropriate.
Pacific kelp forests are far older than we thought
A new study by IB researchers (Professor Cindy Looy, PhD alum Rosemary Romero, and BA alum Tony Huynh) and collaborators shows that kelp flourished off the Northwest Coast more than 32 million years ago, long before the appearance of modern groups of marine mammals, sea urchins, birds and bivalves that today call the forests home. Read more...
Welcome new MCB faculty Allon Wagner
Welcome to MCB's newest faculty member, Allon Wagner, who joined us as an assistant professor of immunology and molecular medicine on January 1st 2024. Wagner works at the intersection of computational single-cell genomics and immunometabolism. His lab, the computational immunometabolism lab, will develop data-driven algorithms to study metabolic dysregulation of immunity in cancer, autoimmunity, and other disease states.