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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Margaux Pinney shares how her interdisciplinary lab uses microfluidics to study enzyme kinetics at scale, opening new frontiers for drug discovery and protein design. Read our latest interview: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/faculty-focus-on-margaux-pinney/
Group shot of the Margaux Pinney lab members in Stanley Hall.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Protein engineers at UC Berkeley created ProteinGuide—a method using experimental data to steer generative AI models toward better, highly stable & active proteins without expensive model retraining. Read more about this @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social research: bit.ly/4AlhcFC
Graphic illustrating how ProteinGuide was tested on adenine base editors: In the first round, generative models produced a library of variants that were experimentally tested for editing activity; ProteinGuide then used those results to guide a second round of designs toward higher activity.Side-by-side headshots of Maria Lukarska (left, a postdoctoral scholar in Professor Dave Savage's lab) and Junhao Xiong (right, a recently graduated PhD student in Professor Jennifer Listgarten’s lab).
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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
UC Berkeley researchers created a new genomic language AI model, GPN-Star, that far outpaces its competitors at identifying genetic variants that impact human health — while only using a fraction of the computing resources needed to train larger models. bit.ly/4A9xXn8
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New AI model for DNA learns from evolution to unlock secrets of the human genome - Berkeley News
UC Berkeley researchers have created a new genomic language model, called GPN-Star, that excels at spotting genetic variants that impact human health.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Jennifer Doudna helped unlock the power of CRISPR. Today, pioneers like Victoria Gray are living proof of how gene editing moves from lab breakthrough to transformative real-world cure. Read more in Berkeley News
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The nominees include QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliates Markita Landry and Jay Keasling! Read about their work and the other nominees 👇
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Saul Kato @focolab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Preprint posted for Kevin Zhou's awesome development in the Waller Lab of a gigapixel-scale microscope using a low-cost sensor array, along with Muneki Ikeda. www.focolab.org/post/large-s...
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"Large-scale compressive microscopy via diffractive multiplexing across a sensor array" preprint released
Kevin Zhou, former postdoc in the collaborating lab of Laura Waller at Berkeley, and who recently started his own lab at University of Michigan, developed this way to achieve gigapixel-resolution high...
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Congratulations to @karthikshekhar.bsky.social on receiving the Philomathia Prize! Read more about the @berkeleychemistry.bsky.social professor and QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate's research: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/philomathia-prize-advances-novel-work-on-the-physics-of-bioelectricity/
Karthik Shekhar in the classroom.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New tech from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social & @biohub.org uses a laser phase plate for high-contrast protein imaging. This cryo-EM breakthrough could help accelerate drug discovery. qb3.berkeley.edu/news/a-breakthrough-in-electron-microscopy-delivers-sharper-images-of-our-bodys-tiniest-proteins/
Holger Müller standing in front of the Thermo Scientific Krios cryo-EM outfitted with a novel laser phase plate to dramatically improve the microscope’s contrast and ability to image smaller molecules and smaller structures inside cells.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Congratulations to QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Rasmus Nielsen!
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ahmad Omar, a QB3-Berkeley affiliate and @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social prof at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, uses statistical mechanics to explore soft condensed matter. Read how his lab models the building blocks of life: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/faculty-focus-ahmad-omar/
Lab members from the Ahmad Omar lab outside on the UC Berkeley campus.
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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members were recently elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/26/e...
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Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Berkeley News
The newly elected AAAS Fellows include a tech pioneer, the author of a book on nature’s poisons and a neuroscientist who can decode what you are seeing from your brain wave activity.
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Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources @natureatcal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In a first-of-its-kind Nature Biomedical Engineering study, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social researchers detail how they can accelerate the biological age of human fat and liver tissue by 40 years—all in as little as four days. Learn more about their findings: nature.berkeley.edu/news/2026/03...
An array of circuit-like patterns on a metal wafer, illuminated in blue, pink, and yellow light.Three researchers in white lab coats holding in a laboratory, standing in front of blue-windowed workspace holding a piece of equipment.A researcher in white coat and glasses working inside biosafety cabinet, handling colorful sample containers and conducting bioengineering experimentation.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social research led by Derfogail Delcassian shows "soft activation" of T cells creates more precise therapies with fewer side effects. Read more: qb3.berkeley.edu/research-news/researchers-grow-immune-cells-with-more-targeted-cancer-fighting-abilities/
Rendering of T cells. (Image by iStock)
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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Congratulations to our 7 UC Berkeley faculty members named 2026 Sloan Fellows! The fellowships honor exceptional scholars whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders. news.berkeley.edu/2026/02/17/s...
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Seven UC Berkeley faculty named 2026 Sloan Fellows - Berkeley News
A Sloan Research Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards available to early-career researchers.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A new ecological approach to fighting superbugs! QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Adam Arkin is leading a team to design lung-dwelling microbial communities that aim to "eat the lunch" of pathogens. Full story: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/using-the-microbiome-to-combat-lung-pathogens/
A gloved hand holds up a green petri dish of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria grown in a lab.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
How did 1980s research lead to today’s quantum computers? A new story explores how QB3-Berkeley affiliate & @nobelprize.org laureate John Clarke pioneered macroscopic quantum tunneling. Read the @berkeleylab.lbl.gov story: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/how-joh...
Collage image from Berkeley Lab of John Clarke featured alongside excerpts from an annual report to BES sharing the results on macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy-level quantization in a superconducting circuit, along with a 1999 photo of Klaus Schlenga next to a SQUID Magnetic Resonance Imaging System.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New research in @nature.com from QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Ting Xu!
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Addition Therapeutics, a spinout of QB3-Berkeley affiliate Kathleen Collins' lab, has emerged from stealth with $100M in funding from SR One, the Gates Foundation, and more. Its PRINT platform uses retrotransposon machinery to deliver precise gene therapy. www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/addi...
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Addition Tx does the math and emerges from stealth with $100M, biotech vets on exec team
University of California spinout Addition Therapeutics has uncloaked, revealing “breakthrough” PRINT technology it hopes will fuel a new wave of genetic medicine. | University of California spinout Ad...
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Which came first — the comb jelly or the sponge? The battle over the root of the animal tree of life rages on, with the latest research from QB3-Berkeley's Nicole King coming down on the side of the sponge. Read more from the UC Berkeley news team: news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/19/d...
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Did the first animal look like a sponge or a comb jelly? The debate continues. - Berkeley News
Two years ago, a novel analysis by UC Berkeley researchers pointed to comb jellies as the root of the animal tree of life. Another Berkeley group now says it’s sponges.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We are thrilled to welcome Bill Burkholder, science program director at #CZBiohubSF (@czbiohub.bsky.social) as our professional in residence this week! Learn how curiosity shaped his career journey in this fantastic Q&A: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/profess...
Portrait of a smiling Bill Burkholder on a blue background with the QB3-Berkeley logo.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A team led by QB3-Berkeley affiliate Seung-Wuk Lee has engineered a harmless virus into a “smart sponge” to extract rare-earth elements from waste streams—no harsh chemicals, just biology. A huge win for cleaner tech and supply chains! 🔬🌱 bit.ly/3LQOHuA
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Researchers pioneer greener way to extract rare earth elements - Berkeley Engineering
Sustainable biomining approach uses genetically engineered viruses
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Nature has inspired many scientific breakthroughs—and for QB3-Berkeley's Phillip Messersmith, it’s a blueprint for healing. He and his team are creating bio-inspired glues and regenerative materials: Think surgical sealants that stretch, stick, and help tissues heal. 🔬💚 Read more: bit.ly/3XHwwKp
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Nature provides the answers - Berkeley Engineering
Phillip Messersmith harnesses the natural world to engineer medical innovations
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
From the latest issue of Berkeley Engineering mag: Research by QB3-Berkeley affiliate Amy Pickering shows that stored drinking water is a major source of E. coli transmission in developing countries. Read more from @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social: engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/11...
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Testing the waters - Berkeley Engineering
Researchers have found that stored drinking water is a key transmission pathway for E. coli
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LifeCanvas Technologies @lifecanvastech.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In a new Nature study, Dr. @gabineiman.bsky.social et al. developed an in vitro screening method to predict transfection efficacy of LNP-mRNA complexes in the heart, validating it with #SmartSPIM imaging in whole mouse hearts. Check out the paper: bit.ly/444P0rT @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Using a heart-on-a-chip model, QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Kevin Healy has helped to discover a lipid nanoparticle that can penetrate dense heart muscle and efficiently deliver a therapeutic cargo. More from @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social: engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/11...
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Heart-on-a-chip may lead to new treatments for heart failure - Berkeley Engineering
Model helps identify nanoparticles that can deliver mRNA directly into heart muscle cells
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Congrats to QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Daniel Fletcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine for his work developing mobile phone-based microscopy and much more! Read about his honor from the UC Berkeley news team: news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/21/n...
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National Academy of Medicine adds two from UC Berkeley to its ranks - Berkeley News
The new members have worked on mobile phone microscopes and health disparities.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
At @dillinlab.bsky.social, Andrew Dillin's team explores how cells stay young — & why they fail with age. That research inspired UC Berkeley's CURED: a new center turning discoveries on mitochondria & stress response into therapies for rare diseases. Learn more: ls.berkeley.edu/news/andrew-...
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Andrew Dillin on CURED, UC Berkeley’s new approach to advance medicine and global health | Letters & Science
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In advance of his November visit, @protocolsio.bsky.social prez Lenny Teytelman (@lteytelman.bsky.social) spoke to Berkeley's Leah Keiser about his path to founding a startup acquired by @springernature.com. Read the interview: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/profess...
Portrait of Lenny Teytelman smiling against a blue background.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate and emeritus professor of physics John Clarke has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum tunneling, a discovery that laid the foundation for today’s quantum computers. Read about his work: news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/07/j...
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John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics - Berkeley News
The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit." These circuits were forerunners of the qubits i...
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
To many, viruses are a scourge. To Britt Glaunsinger, @natureatcal.bsky.social/@berkeleymcb.bsky.social professor, they're a wonder. 🦠 She gives the 101 on these "masters at efficiency" in 101 seconds in a new @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social video feature: news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/02/b...
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Berkeley microbiologist explains the wonder of viruses in 101 seconds - Berkeley News
"I love efficiency, and viruses are masters at efficiency," says Professor Britt Glaunsinger in this 101 in 101 video.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Can “good” bacteria in your mouth fight cavities? New research from QB3-Berkeley's Wenjun Zhang has identified gene clusters that help oral microbes form biofilms, and she hopes to harness their power. Read more from UC Berkeley: news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/04/c...
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Can the 'good' bacteria in your mouth act as probiotic cavity fighters? - Berkeley News
UC Berkeley's Wenjun Zhang is trying to understand how oral bacteria make biofilms, aka plaque, so she can distinguish the good from the bad — and tip the balance to prevent cavities.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Shining a light on misleading data! Grad students Owen Lin & Kylee Hillman in the Landry Lab have won an NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize for quantifying how many bio papers misuse data viz techniques. Read the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry story: chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/shining...
Teng-Jui (Owen) Lin and Kylee Hillman sit on either side of a computer monitor showing colorful graphs.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Thrilled to see QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Iain Clark named among this year's Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research. He'll use his four-year grant to examine the genetic underpinnings of one of the most lethal and poorly understood forms of leukemia. ls.berkeley.edu/news/four-uc...
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Four of UC Berkeley’s early-career scientists named Pew Scholars | Letters & Science
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
NSF has committed $18M more to C-GEM at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, directed by QB3-Berkeley's Alanna Schepartz. The center is tackling a "Holy Grail" problem: synthesizing truly sequence-defined chemical polymers. Read more from the College of Chemistry: chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/nsf-com...
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NSF commits $18 million to renewed funding for the Center for Genetically Encoded Materials | College of Chemistry
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Is oxytocin just the “love hormone"? New research co-authored by QB3-Berkeley's Markita Landry suggests it might also be a factor in forming friendships. Read the full story from the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social news team: news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/11/i...
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Is the 'love hormone,' oxytocin, also the 'friendship hormone'? - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley study found that social prairie voles lacking the receptor for oxytocin are slow to form friendships and less aggressive toward unfamiliar peers. This suggests a role for oxytocin in bot...
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Faculty focus on: Allon Wagner! A computer scientist by training, he works with his team to investigate how immune cell metabolism is disrupted in immune-related diseases. Read our interview: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/faculty...
Allon Wagner stands with team of four students on staircase in Stanley Hall on UC Berkeley campus.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Jennifer Doudna has been named the 2026 Priestley Medalist by @acs.org for her pioneering work on CRISPR and global science leadership. A well-deserved honor! Her discoveries have revolutionized gene editing and transformed the future of medicine. cen.acs.org/people/award...
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Jennifer Doudna is named 2026 Priestley Medalist
The award recognizes the biochemist for discoveries on ribozyme function and CRISPR gene editing, and international science leadership
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
New research from Priya Moorjani's lab offers insights into India’s genomic legacy. Postdocs @lauritsskov.bsky.social and @ekerdoncuff.bsky.social traced Indian's ancestry to three main sources. Read the findings in this story by grad student Jules Perez: bit.ly/3IK46vh
An illustration of a DNA strand surrounded by faces. Artist: Saurabh Singh.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Congratulations to Usha Lingappa for receiving a 2025 Branco Weiss Fellow! The fellowship will support Usha's research on algal contributions to soil carbon cycling as she continues her work as a postdoc in Sabeeha Merchant's lab in @natureatcal.bsky.social‬. Read more: bit.ly/lingappa-congrats
Headshot of Usha Lingappa
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
What do algae do after a long day of photosynthesis? The Sabeeha Merchant lab & @sunnyjoydupuis.bsky.social tracked them day & night. These tiny powerhouses prep for stress in their sleep—findings that could reshape how we see global carbon cycling. Read more: bit.ly/QB3_algae
Airyscan microscopy of chlorophyll fluorescence in Chlamy cells acclimated to diurnal low light or excess light taken in the daytime or the nighttime. The cells are outlined with a dotted white line, each containing a single cup-shaped chloroplast, which is outlined in green.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
QB3-Berkeley alum spotlight: Nicolas Altemose (@naltemose.bsky.social), now a Stanford professor and CZ Biohub Investigator, shares how his time in the Streets lab shaped his research journey—from developing new tech to mentoring the next generation. 📖 Full interview here: bit.ly/AltemoseQB3
Nicolas Altemose (left) celebrating with PhD student, Danilo Dubocanin (right)
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Molecular Therapeutics Initiative @mti-ucb.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🧬 Announcing the 2025 Innovator Awardees! Proud to support 6 researchers with $90K + resources. 🔬Lareau: CRISPR for retinitis pigmentosa 🧪Hurley: Cancer inhibitors ✨Sherriff & Olzmann: Molecular glues 🥼Welch: Sleeping sickness 🧫Isacoff: Fast-acting antidepressants Advancing innovation at Berkeley
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feña Palominos @fishfena.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Check my article contribution for @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social about the Chichancanab pupfish radiation! 🐟😍
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Dive into our latest research story, "How my first fish expedition found a species on the brink of extinction." Read the story from @fishfena.bsky.social, a postdoc in @fishspeciation.bsky.social's lab: bit.ly/QB3-fish 🐟
A group of researchers lies down on a dock to look for pupfishes in one of the private lagoons around Tulum, México.
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Marco Duenas @marcoaduenas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thrilled to share that my first first-author paper is officially out as a PNAS direct submission! In this study, we uncovered the mechanism diving polycistronic expression in green algae! Come check it out below: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This month's interview is with Marco Dueñas! Marco is a PhD candidate in Sabeeha Merchant’s lab in @berkeleymcb.bsky.social and @natureatcal.bsky.social. He chats with us about his recent paper in @pnas.org, overcoming research challenges, and more. Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas
A researcher in a blue lab coat holds up a beaker with yellow liquid in it.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This month's interview is with @natureatcal.bsky.social Prof. Andreas Stahl: "The biggest inspiration comes from the excitement of discovery. Few things are more rewarding than forming a bold hypothesis & seeing it hold true—or discovering something unexpected." Read more: bit.ly/Andreas-Stahl-QB3
The Andreas Stahl lab members gathered around a table.
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QB3-Berkeley @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's #CalBigGive — UC Berkeley's annual day of giving! A gift to QB3-Berkeley today supports essential infrastructure like our core research facilities. Give to QB3-Berkeley: bit.ly/Give2QB3-Berkeley And check out one of our core facilities, Cal-Cryo: bit.ly/Cal-Cryo
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Big Give 2025
Be the Light this Big Give, March 13, 2025
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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Congratulations to all the new Berkeley NAE inductees, including our collaborator of ~20y and former @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social director Dave Schaffer! Well-deserved and long overdue!!
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 18/02/2025
Single-molecule live-cell RNA imaging with CRISPR–Csm - @doudna-lab.bsky.social @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social go.nature.com/3EJPKsM
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Single-molecule live-cell RNA imaging with CRISPR–Csm - Nature Biotechnology
Single-molecule live-cell fluorescence in situ hybridization uses an RNA-targeting CRISPR–Csm complex to image and track endogenous RNAs.
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