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Excited to share our new paper: 'LASER couples damage sensing to ESCRT assembly for lysosome repair.' Congrats to dream team @clairegoul and @aakritijain24 for uncovering a new lysosome repair pathway and its connection to neurodegeneration. bit.ly/49FCPoq
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Congrats to MCB's Michel DuPage, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure! 👏🥂
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ALT Michel DuPage promoted to associate professor
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Exciting work from MCB's @Eric_Betzig, Gokul Upadhyayula & collaborators at @ABCUCBerkeley! 🔬
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One microscope, every scale. MOSAIC images life from single molecules to whole organisms: dividing cells, remodeling organelles, regenerating zebrafish, Alzheimer's tissue at the nanoscale, live mouse neural dynamics. Credit: Fu, Liu, Milkie, Ruan et al., Nature Methods (2026).
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UC Berkeley MCB retweeted
May 24
Congrats to Ana Galic and Kevin Li, who just graduated with honors in MCB, and to the brand new Dr. Trinity Cookis @trincookis 👨🎓👩🎓👩🎓🤩. Very best wishes for your next endeavors 💝.
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UC Berkeley MCB retweeted
May 25
Congratulations to two very accomplished Merchant Lab undergrads, Lauren Chiang and Kyle Lew on the completion of their degrees! Lauren will be starting med school this Summer and Kyle will be working full time in the lab as an NIH Prep Scholar!
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UC Berkeley MCB retweeted
May 26
🎓 This past Friday, our MBT Class of 2026 walked across the stage at Commencement! 💙
So incredibly proud of every one of our graduates. You worked so hard for this moment — congratulations! The best is yet to come! 🚀
#MBTProgram #UCBerkeley #ClassOf2026 #Commencement #STEM
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May 18
A huge thanks to everyone who participated in the Fletcher Lab Art Show 2026! Your creativity, talent, and passion made this event truly special. Check out the Ground State Ensemble performance: youtu.be/h7E9Nld7mtk?feature…
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Happy to share our new work published in @acsnano "Quantifying Photochemical Propulsion in Light-Powered Janus Micromotors". A collaboration among @BustamanteLab, Alivisatos lab and the Molecular Foundry
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UC Berkeley MCB retweeted
May 19
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.
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UC Berkeley MCB retweeted
May 21
Empathy is why 200 people in 9 organizations worked tirelessly to generate a CRISPR on demand for a baby in Philly they have never met. I told this story in a commencement address to our @berkeleyMCB graduating class of 2026: blue-and-gold members of Team Hope for the World.
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May 20
Congrats to MCB's Jeremy Thorner who will serve on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal starting 7-1-26! @PNASNews
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ALT Jeremy Thorner joins the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal
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May 20
🎉 Our 2nd MBT Poster Symposium was a HUGE success! 🙌
So proud of our students for showcasing their incredible hard work and research! 💙
#MBTProgram #UCBerkeley #STEM #PosterSymposium #ClassOf2026
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The MCB Transcript Spring 2026 newsletter is here!
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ALT The MCB Transcript Spring 2026 newsletter is here! Learn about MCB's exciting research, new faculty, commencement speakers, biology of human cancer course, alumni and more!
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Congratulations to MCB's Nicholas Ingolia, Kunxin Luo & David Weisblat who received the departmental 2026 MCB Outstanding Faculty Awards! 👏🎉
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ALT Nicholas Ingolia, Kunxin Luo & David Weisblat receive the 2026 MCB Outstanding Faculty Awards
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MCB is pleased to welcome Michael Ward, Professor of Molecular Therapeutics, on July 1st! Read more about Dr. Ward's research and appointment to UC Berkeley @UCBLettersSci:
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Congratulations to Rebecca Heald on being elected 2028 ASCB President.
Heald is a leading cell biologist whose work on cell division and size control—and commitment to mentoring—has had a lasting impact on the field.
Learn more: ascb.org/society-news/rebecc…
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Congrats to MCB's Gary Karpen & Russell Vance for being among the six UC Berkeley faculty members elected to the NAS! 👏🥂news.berkeley.edu/2026/04/30…
ALT Gary Karpen & Russell Vance elected to National Academy of Sciences
We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 25 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research.
Congratulations to our new #NASmembers and welcome to the Academy! 🎊
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We’re thrilled to welcome Nobel laureate Carol Greider as the featured speaker for MCB’s Annual Alumni Seminar!
🗓 Wednesday, May 6
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM
📍 Room 245, LKS
This event is open to the public—join us for an inspiring talk!🧪🐻
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Happy Birthday to Carol Widney Greider, Ph.D. 1987. Greider and Professor Elizabeth Blackburn received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Jack Szostak) for discoveries about telomerase, a key enzyme in cancer & anemia research - the first women Nobel laureates from Cal.
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UC Berkeley MCB retweeted
Apr 11
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
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