It is with sadness that we report the passing of Professor Emerita Thelma E. Rowell during December 2024. Dr. Rowell joined the Berkeley faculty in 1974 as a member of the Department of Zoology and, later, the Department of Integrative Biology.

Michael Yartsev will receive the 2025 Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences to recognize his extraordinary scientific achievement in advancing our understanding of the neural basis of natural behaviors.

Photo credit: Stanley Luo

"Was the T. rex brightly colored with feathers? Did it run as fast as movies make it seem? How new discoveries challenge our long-held beliefs about the world of paleontology." Integrative Biology Professor Jack Tseng shares his expertise. Read more and listen to the Berkeley Voices podcast through this link: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/30/berkeley-voices-transformation-series-ep-3-dinosaurs/
 

Learn how Integrative Biology Professor Victor Ortega Jiménez uses high-speed cameras to record fascinating slow motion footage of animals in the wild. Read the article and see the video through this link here. Please also check out this cool article featuring him called "The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology" (link here).
 

BioE graduate student Jazmin Isabel Velazquez examines the unique paths every graduate student takes on the road to their PhD in this story based on her experience in the Healy and Rubinsky Labs.

Please join faculty from Stevens Institute of Technology for a virtual information session on master’s and Ph.D. programs in Biomedical Engineering With attendance of an information session, the application fee is waived Wednesday, November 20th 6-7 pm: Ph.D. program information 7-8 pm: Master’s program information Register and join one or both sessions! Master’s program website Ph.D. program overview and […]

On Nov 18, 2024 at 5pm, Dr. Lisa White, Assistant Director of the UCMP, moderates a conversation between IB graduate student Emily Bogner and IB Professors Juan Liu and Jack Tseng. Join the event to hear them describe their research on the ancient flora and fauna of our state, and what secrets it can reveal about the place we call home. Register for the event through this link: https://basicscience.berkeley.edu/. This is part of the UC Berkeley "Basic Science Lights the Way" event series.

Trinh Lam, a postdoc in Amy Herr's lab, has won the Biomicrofluidics Best Paper Award from AIP Publishing at the 28th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences - Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS 2024).

Murthy lab and UC Davis have developed a unique mRNA delivery method for in-utero gene editing for neurodevelopmental conditions.

Niren Murthy and collaborators have developed a more stable version of the Cas9 enzyme to improve delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) for in vivo gene editing.

Professor Adam Arkin has been granted an award of over $20 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to pursue microbiome engineering to create probiotic bacterial communities that prevent and treat lung pathogens.

Announcing the 2025 Engineering and Imaging Summer research immersion Program sponsored by the graduate school of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.   We invite current engineering sophomores and juniors interested in using engineering skills to tackle the open questions in biomedicine in labs at MSK for a 10-week immersive in-person summer research experience in NYC. We […]

Attending #SACNAS2024? Stop by our booth in Academic Expo Hall, Row 300, to meet UC Berkeley’s Biosciences Division grads, faculty, and staff! Let’s chat about our STEM graduate programs and all things #STEMBerkeley!