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David Bilder, Rebecca Heald, James Hurley and Gary Karpen receive Miller Research Professorship Awards

Congratulations to MCB faculty David Bilder, Rebecca Heald, James Hurley and Gary Karpen on receiving Miller Research Professorship Awards! 👏🎉 @bilderlab.bsky.social @jimhurley.bsky.social
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Dan Portnoy receives the 2025 Excellence in Advising Outstanding Faculty Award

Congratulations to MCB's Dan Portnoy on receiving the 2025 Excellence in Advising Outstanding Faculty Advisor award from Berkeley’s Council on Advising and Student Services! 🎉👏
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The feeling is mutual! Wonderful to have a chance to get together.

Congrats to MCB's Susan Marqusee @marquseelab.bsky.social on being selected as a 2025 Protein Society Fellow @proteinsociety.bsky.social! 👏🎉

James Nuñez named 2025 Vallee Scholar

Congrats to MCB's James Nuñez @jamesknunez.bsky.social on being named a 2025 Vallee Scholar @valleefoundation.bsky.social! 🎉👏

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Congrats to MCB's James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social on receiving the ASBMB 2026 Avanti Award in Lipids @asbmb.bsky.social! 👍🎉

Our newest preprint on bioRxiv ‪@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social "Divergent Rickettsia species exhibit distinct mechanisms of actin-based motility" reveals surprising evolutionary flexibility in the mechanisms of Rickettsia actin-based motility www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine in MCB. Learn more and apply online:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05096

We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Molecular Therapeutics in MCB. Learn more and apply online:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05098

Congratulations James @olzmannlab.bsky.social for being elected an ASCB Fellow!

Scientists hack microbes to identify environmental sources of methane - Berkeley News UC Berkeley researchers tweaked a key enzyme involved in microbial methane production to understand the unique fingerprints of different environments on Earth that generate the greenhouse gas.

Exciting research out of the Nayak lab! 🧪

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Yvette Fisher named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

And another one for MCB's Yvette Fisher @yvetteefisher.bsky.social! 🔥Congrats on being named a
@hhmi.org 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! 🥂https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars/2025-scholars

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

Congrats to MCB's Filipa Rijo-Ferreira on being named a
@hhmi.org 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! 🎉👏
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Congrats to MCB's Yang Dan & Donald Rio on their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! 👏🎉 www.amacad.org/new-members-...

A spate of suicides drew this alumna back to UC Berkeley to confront mental health issues in academia - Berkeley News Encouraged by Wendy Ingram, a 2014 Berkeley Ph.D. recipient, eminent faculty members shared their experiences with depression and anxiety to help bring these struggles into the open.

Thanks Wendy @wendyingram.bsky.social and Dragonfly @dragonflymh.bsky.social for your pioneering work promoting mental health wellness in academia. MCB @berkeleymcb.bsky.social at UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social appreciates your efforts and expertise. news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/21/a...

Congrats to MCB's Diana Bautista and David Bilder for being named as AAAS Fellows @aaas.org! @bilderlab.bsky.social 👏 🎉https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/27/seven-faculty-members-named-fellows-of-american-association-for-the-advancement-of-science/

Congrats to MCB faculty David Raulet and graduate student Elle Andrews on receiving 2025 Berkeley Graduate Mentoring Awards! 👏🎉 @davidraulet.bsky.social
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Bakar Fellows Program Welcomes Spring 2025 Ignite Scholars - Bakar Fellows Program Meet the Fall 2024 cohort of the Bakar Ignite Scholars Program.

Congratulations to MCB undergraduates Carolyn Nguyen (Nuñez Lab), Karla Tapia (Hurley Lab), Shriprithi Vel Murugan (Hurley Lab), and Selina Wu (Hurley Lab) who were recently named Spring 2025 Ignite Scholars by the Bakar Fellows Program! 👏
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Image of Heald lab group in eucalyptus grove posing like frogs and smiling

Our #berkeleyMCB community is already coming together to make a BIG impact for #CalBigGive! As a special incentive, once we receive 100 gifts 🎁 it will unlock 2 special donations from members of our community. Please help us meet this funding challenge! bit.ly/BigGiveMCB25

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

Interesting analysis of the amazing economic activity fueled by NIH-funded research - a return on investment of $2.56 for every $1 in awards: www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

UC Berkeley Scientists Protest Trump Administration’s Cuts to Research Funding | KQED Hundreds of UC Berkeley scientists and students rallied in support of research funding as President Donald Trump delayed and slashed research budgets.

I'm glad to have attended two Stand up for Science #standupforscience rallies last Friday, including this one at UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social -https://www.kqed.org/news/12030313/uc-berkeley-scientists-protest-trump-administrations-cuts-to-research-funding

Crowd at the stand up for science rally in San Francisco.

Good crowd at #standupforscience in San Francisco and great speeches by CA State Senator Scott Wiener
@scottwiener.bsky.social and Stanford (also former UC Berkeley) professor Carolyn Bertozzi
@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social

I've been off of social media for some time now and surprisingly glad to be back on again!