Congrats to MCB's Diana Bautista, Samantha Lewis & Matt Welch for being ASCB Honorific Award Winners! 👏🎉@ascbbiology.bsky.social, @dianambautista.bsky.social, @samlewis.bsky.social, @mattwelchlab.bsky.social

American Society for Cell Biology@ascbiology.bsky.social · 2d ago

Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Honorific Award Winners! ASCB is proud to recognize scientists whose research, mentorship, education & leadership are helping shape the future of cell biology. See all the awardees: https://www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-announces-2026-honorific-award-winners/

Congrats to MCB's Dan Fletcher & Roberto Zoncu @robzonculab.bsky.social on being named 2026 ASCB Fellows! 👏🎉@ascbiology.bsky.social

American Society for Cell Biology@ascbiology.bsky.social · 2d ago

Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Fellows! ASCB is proud to recognize 15 scientists whose careers have advanced cell biology through outstanding research, leadership, mentorship & service. Meet the 2026 Fellows: https://www.ascb.org/society-news/fifteen-visionary-scientists-named-2026-ascb-fellows/

MCB's Priya Moorjani & her lab have developed a novel genomic analysis method that identified DNA inherited from two previously unknown ancient human relatives, providing new insights into the complexity of human evolution. news.berkeley.edu/2026/07/30/n...

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from ‘ghost’ ancestors - Berkeley News

Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with modern human ancestors, leaving behind telltale DNA in our genomes. Now we have evidence of modern human interbreeding with two much older but unknown ancest...

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New preprint from the lab! Led by graduate student @lainahall.bsky.social we show a new method to thin cells for cryo-EM imaging with minimal damage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Optimized cryo-FIB milling strategy to generate thin, minimally damaged biological lamellae

Focused ion beam (FIB)-milling has been adapted to thin frozen cells for visualization of macromolecular structures in situ with cryogenic electron microscopy. However, only a few large and abundant c...

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Check out our new preprint on base editors and the thread below!

@marialukarska.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m happy to share our pre-print exploring the activity and specificity trade-offs in adenine base editors. Thanks to my amazing co-authors Luke Oltrogge, @hnisonoff.bsky.social, and all the other contributors @jlistgarten.bsky.social @savagecatsonly.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social 🧵1/7

See the post from first author @lainahall.bsky.social below:

Laina Hall@lainahall.bsky.social · 2w ago

With Cryo-ET/EM, the macromolecules we study (and biological questions we ask) are SNR-limited. Here, we share Nilas, a low-voltage milling method named after thin sea ice. Nilas produces thin (sub 50 nm in places!), minimally damaged lamellae. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.21.739890v1

A new multi-institutional initiative funded by ARPA-H through its THRIVE program is developing affordable gene-editing therapies for inborn errors of immunity in children. The award of up to $27.7M supports a platform approach to rapidly treat inborn errors of immunity: https://ow.ly/1MfE50ZsZEh

"I've been coming since I was a postdoc, and every time I felt welcome, energized, and inspired." Watch Eva Nogales share why she keeps coming back to #CellBio. https://youtu.be/aHIkdLaG1Rw Learn more: https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/

Eva Nogales Shares Why She Keeps Returning To Cell Bio

Join us for Cell Bio 2026, the joint meeting of ASCB and EMBO, wher...

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It was a privilege to lead the biochemistry efforts for the first preprint from the Nomburg lab! Check this exploration of conserved protein folds adapted to suppress immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Jason Nomburg@jnoms.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy to share the first preprint out of the Nomburg lab! Many aspects of cellular immunity are shared across the tree of life. Here, we show that some of these conserved aspects of cellular immunity are mirrored by conserved effectors of immune antagonism. Thread below! 1/15

At the IGI, we're using #robotics to accelerate research in critical areas like #Parkinson's disease. Learn more about one of our favorite robots and how IGI's Hanqin Li, Tomy Tran, and Dirk Hockemeyer are changing neurodegenerative disease research: https://ow.ly/RpMM50Zm85m

Thrilled to share our collab led by Grace Hibshman with the Shipman lab! Type IX retron-Kva2 structure reveals phage detection via an HTH fold, not a primary sequence. We computationally designed triggers that program bacteria cell death, pointing toward designer antimicrobials.

Out recently in Nature, new research from Jennifer Doudna, postdoc @jingkunzeng.bsky.social, and collaborators shows a #CRISPR-based method for selectively killing "undruggable" #cancers by recognizing cells with cancer-causing mutations and shredding their DNA. Learn more: https://ow.ly/NRss50Z8tQK

From Nobel Prizes to national parks, here are 25 UC Berkeley breakthroughs to commemorate America’s 250th birthday. #UCBerkeley #America250 #Innovation

25 UC Berkeley breakthroughs to commemorate America's 250th birthday - Berkeley News

From Nobel Prizes to national parks, here are 25 ways Berkeley has lit the way forward throughout its history.

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🎧 Listening tip! Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate and #CRISPR co‑developer, discusses how #GenomeEditing supports the development of more resilient and nutritious crops, while also promoting broad access & public dialogue 🌱 https://ow.ly/Yb3v50ZjZ24

What’s the Future of Gene Editing? | Quanta Magazine

In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking technology.

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Out today in @science.org, Doudna lab researchers describe an #AI-assisted method for designing enhanced genome editors, testing close to 2000 in lab. Read more: innovativegenomics.org/news/ai-desi...

AI-Assisted Technique Allows Scientists to Design New, Functional Genome Editors Beyond What Can Be Found in Nature

AI-Assisted Technique Allows Scientists to Design New, Functional Genome Editors Beyond What Can Be Found in Nature - Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)

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Doudna Lab@doudna-lab.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our AI-guided design of RNA-guided nucleases is now out in @science.org 💻🧬 We used structure and evolutionary data to generate minimal, active and divergent gene editors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats to @petrskopintsev.bsky.social @isabelesain.bsky.social @evandeturk.bsky.social & team!

Thank you Natalia Mesa at the @thetransmitter.bsky.social for highlighting our labs preprint on synaptic mechanisms of head direction learning!! 🪰🧭 Work from @markplitt.bsky.social in my lab in collaboration with the Jayaraman lab! www.thetransmitter.org/learning-and...

Unique learning mechanism drives navigation in fruit flies

The neuromodulator octopamine, the insect counterpart to norepinephrine, helps flies get their bearings in an unfamiliar environment.

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Corals and the algae that they host are touted as one of the greatest partnerships in nature. But this symbiosis probably didn't start out harmoniously. In this edition of #ScienceAdviser: the story of a beautiful friendship that began as a break-in www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧪

At the IGI, we're using #robotics to accelerate research in critical areas like #Parkinson's disease. Learn more about one of our favorite robots and how IGI's Hanqin Li, Tomy Tran, and Dirk Hockemeyer are changing neurodegenerative disease research: ow.ly/RpMM50Zm85m

🧵 New paper alert! Today on bioRxiv, we show how a microtubule (MT) associated protein, MTCL1, links 2 regulatory layers: mechanical MT stabilization and writing of then tubulin code. A multi-lab effort driven by Juan Perez-Bertoldi and Julie Dang spanning atoms to organisms. 1/n

Just out from IGI's Jennifer Doudna, Fyodor Urnov, Alex Marson, Brad Ringeisen, and collaborators, a new Nature perspective piece on medical genome standards. 🧬 Read here: https://ow.ly/HSXz50Zn0z7

MCB is excited to host three Howard University undergrad researchers this summer! 🔬Recently, they had the opportunity to meet Chancellor Lyons @chancellorlyons.bsky.social A big thank you to their MCB faculty research mentors: @mengmengfu.bsky.social, @psudmant.bsky.social & Laurent Coscoy! 👏

In a new state-of-the-art laboratory, MCB's Phillip Cleves @pcleves.bsky.social and his team are discovering how the symbiotic relationship between algae and corals evolved. news.berkeley.edu/2026/07/01/s...

Scientists discover how algae colonized corals — a symbiosis that fueled the growth of the world’s reefs - Berkeley News

UC Berkeley biologists uncovered clues to how the symbiosis between algae and corals evolved using a new state-of-the-art lab devoted to year-round genetic experiments on spawning coral.

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We're excited to announce the launch of MCB's new LinkedIn page! 🎉 Follow us for research highlights, awards, events, and news from across MCB. Be sure to tag us in your LinkedIn posts so we can help share your accomplishments with the broader community. www.linkedin.com/company/uc-b...

Congrats to MCB's Eva Nogales for being awarded the 2026 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science! 👏🥂 news.vumc.org/2026/06/30/m...

Huge congratulations to Doudna Lab postdoc, Santiago!

Innovative Genomics Institute@innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Santiago López in the @doudna-lab.bsky.social at the IGI for being selected for the 2026 class of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences! Learn about Santiago's work and the other scholars here: www.pew.org/en/about/new...

A team led by Jennifer Doudna developed an innovative chromatin-shredding technique shown to destroy cancer cells carrying a prevalent mutation while keeping healthy cells intact. @doudna-lab.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

New CRISPR Technique Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including Those of ‘Undruggable’ Cancers

An innovative chromatin-shredding technique shown to destroy cancer cells carrying a prevalent mutation while keeping healthy cells intact.

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UC Berkeley has been named the top public university in the U.S., and No. 7 globally in @usnews.com 2026 Best Global Universities rankings. news.berkeley.edu/2026/06/15/u...

UC Berkeley named top public university in the U.S. and No. 7 in the world by U.S. News - Berkeley News

The 2026 Best Global Universities rankings evaluated 2,250 research institutions from more than 100 countries.

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Congrats to MCB's Greg Barton on receiving the 2026 Lupus Insight Prize! 🥂👏Barton and Olivia Majer were recognized for their discoveries defining how UNC93B1 regulates TLR7 signaling in lupus. @lupusresearch.bsky.social

Our newest microPublication is out online! Please check it out. @micropub7n.bsky.social

microPublication Biology@micropub7n.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cryo-electron tomography reveals OmpB is required for the Rickettsia parkeri S-layer #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Other #StructuralBiologyData #ModelsOfHumanDisease #NewFinding #R https://micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-002219

Congrats to MCB's Megan Martik and Molly Ohainle @mollyohainle.bsky.social on being named 2026-27 Hellman Fellows! 👏 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...