The Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) and Integrative Biology (IB) together are among the largest academic departments at UC Berkeley. By several measures (including number of faculty and students, budget, and assigned square feet), these departments are larger than many UCB colleges and schools. The two departments represent over 186 faculty FTE (including Adjuncts, Professors of the Graduate School, active emeriti and 15 HHMI professors); 150 postdocs and other research positions; 375 graduate students; 80 department staff members; and 8 recharge centers. Financial resources include approximately $51M in annual extramural funding (which accounts for over half of the total sponsored research awards in the College of Letters & Science) and over $46M other fund sources. The department has 1,800 declared undergraduate majors (the largest majors on the Berkeley campus) and a total annual enrollment in classes of ~20,000. Department personnel are currently housed in seven buildings located in three widely separated parts of the campus.

Of the two lineages of lentivirus that endemically infect chimpanzees, only one has served as a source of infections in hu-mans. Using HIV-CRISPR screening, we identify factors that limit the replicat...

Animal genomes have expanded with the mobility of non-long-terminal-repeat retrotransposons. These retrotransposons initiate genome insertions usin...

Background Retrotransposons play outsized roles in the evolution of gene regulation, genome function, and disease pathogenesis, and more recently they have sparked interest as instruments for new gene...

TnpB endonucleases are engineered for improved genome editing.

Biphasic reactions can enhance reactions where the catalyst and substrate have different solvent preferences. This study optimizes triple emulsion picoreactors that encapsulate a biphasic solvent env...

Predictable and parallel changes occur in the fitness effects of mutations in Escherichia coli over 50,000 generations.

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Transcription factors directly bind repetitive sequences that need not resemble known motifs.