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Our latest study out in @MolecularCell explores how and why MHC class I is aberrantly targeted for degradation via the autophagy-lysosome pathway in pancreatic cancer. Congrats to postdoc extraordinaire @marineberquez for leading this study! @UCSFAnatomy @UCSFCancer
Online Now: A multi-subunit autophagic capture complex facilitates degradation of ER-stalled MHC class I in pancreatic cancer dlvr.it/TSn7r3
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Replying to @UCBerkeley
@UCBerkeley campus. 🤩
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Congrats to chemical biology grad students Melissa Lim and Aman Modi from our lab for getting their PhD's!!
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Excited to talk about our latest research at the 2nd International Symposium on Chemical and Biomedical Imaging in Hong Kong!
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#NorCal ☺️
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Replying to @UCBerkeley
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🌟 Welcome to Michael Ward, MD, PhD, joining @UCBerkeley as the inaugural Schekman Family Chancellor's Chair in Neuroscience, building on Berkeley's outstanding research in molecular and disease-related neuroscience. ➡️ bit.ly/4nBlOBo @berkeleyMCB
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Proud to hood Sydney Tomlinson as she earned her PhD in Metabolic Biology at UC Berkeley. Sydney’s dissertation uncovered mechanisms for induced degradation of ER membrane proteins and advances our understanding of ER quality control.
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Happy to have contributed to this preprint with Fangzhu Zhao and @realJimWells! LRP8-targeted bispecific antibody degraders degrade the selenium uptake receptor LRP8, reduce GPX4 / selenoproteins, and sensitize cancer cells to ferroptosis. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Some friendships just keep getting better with time. Really thankful for these guys, the conversations, the laughter, and the chance to slow down and enjoy an evening together. BFFs!☺️ @RobertoZoncu @RapeLab @DanNomura
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Early iSOAR 5D movie of membrane and mitochondria dynamics over 3 hrs at 3 min intervals in the head of a zebrafish embryo 6 dpf, covering a 300 x 1000 um FOV at 193 x 193 x 550 nm resolution (0.8 TB total).
Ever wonder why we decide to build a new microscope and how we go about it? For the last lecture this semester of the graduate microscopy class Na, Gokul, and I teach at Cal, I spoke on our developing iSOAR microscope, a swept HILO design with adaptive optics and structured illumination. iSOAR is designed to produce the petabytes of high resolution 5D videos of subcellular dynamics in zebrafish we need to train the multimodal vision models at the heart of our Cell Observatory Initiative. We still have some work to do, but the scopes are coming along nicely. It's an exciting time at the Observatory, so if you're experienced and looking for a job in zebrafish transgenics, ultra-high throughput image processing, or the development of 5D spatiotemporal foundation models for interpreting the insane dynamic complexity of living matter, we'd love to hear from you. (sup@berkeley.edu, betzige@janelia.hhmi.org).
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James Olzmann (@OlzmannLab at @UCBerkeley) won the 2026 Avanti Award in Lipids. His work has advanced knowledge of lipid droplets, lipid metabolism & ferroptosis. ⏯️Watch his #ASBMB26 talk, "Guardians of the membrane": youtu.be/QJ5YOsUCuHQ #LipidResearch @AvantiResearch
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Two historians, a biologist and a bioengineer from UC Berkeley have won illustrious Guggenheim Fellowships and will pursue independent work under “the freest possible conditions.” news.berkeley.edu/2026/04/17…
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The first GLP-1 drug came from the Gila monster. But I think that is just one example of a much larger opportunity- harnessing natural products from extreme animals for human health. The feast-and-famine physiology of pythons is an ideal system to go fishing!! 🐍🐍🐍
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Honored to recieve the 2026 UCSF Byers Award in Basic Science. Eternally grateful to my mentors, colleagues and friends for your support and to all the past and present Perera Lab members to whom this honor is dedicated to 🙏🏽
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Congrats to MCB's Andreas Martin @AndyMartinLab on receiving the 2026 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award from the Protein Society @ProteinSociety! 👏🎉 proteinsociety.org/protein-s…
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Team FEAST 🍔🍩🥑 of the Weill Cancer Hub West meets today @Stanford_ChEMH for our biannual symposium! With @rushika_perera @AttardiLaura @SuneilKoliwad @RuggeroDavide @RoarkeKamber @SvenssonLab @SCIDirector @StanfordCancer @UCSFCancer @Ashworth_SF
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Interested in aging and rejuvenation? We have a new Research Assistant position to understand aging at the cellular level!! Come join our team!!! 😎 careersearch.stanford.edu/jo…
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After spending much of his career building microscopes, work that earned him The @NobelPrize in Chemistry for contributions to super-resolution microscopy, Eric Betzig (@UCBIDS @hhmi_science) is turning his attention to the data those instruments produce. youtu.be/FGZgAl1t9IU
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Join us for the 22nd Fletcher Lab Artshow! We’re looking for artists to submit their work and be part of an evening celebrating creativity and community. We will also have the return of the Ground State Ensemble! Art by @chunzi_liu @QB3Berkeley @UCB_Biophysics @berkeleyMCB
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