Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley
@kumarlabucb.bsky.social
Lab of Prof. Sanjay Kumar, QB3-Berkeley Director. Dissecting, modeling, and controlling biology with materials & mechanics kumarlab.berkeley.edu
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!!
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that three UC Berkeley engineering faculty members — Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer — have been elected to its ranks. The number of engineering faculty members in the NAE is now 73.
Three UC Berkeley engineering professors named to NAE - Berkeley Engineering
Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer inducted by the prestigious organization
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February 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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!!
Terribly sad to learn of Dr. Michael Sheetz's passing. Mike was a foundational figure in mechanobiology and a strong advocate for the field. He also made us all better by holding himself and others to the highest intellectual standards. Condolences and best wishes to Mike's family and friends.
Deeply saddened by the passing of Prof. Mike Sheetz, a true leader in Mechanobiology. His groundbreaking work on Kinesin, membrane organization, and mechanotransduction has left an indelible mark. A tremendous loss to science. #Mechanobiology #Science #LaskerAward
February 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Terribly sad to learn of Dr. Michael Sheetz's passing. Mike was a foundational figure in mechanobiology and a strong advocate for the field. He also made us all better by holding himself and others to the highest intellectual standards. Condolences and best wishes to Mike's family and friends.
Outstanding opportunity to lead a world-class core facility within @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social. Check it out and spread the word!
Scientific Director, Cal-Cryo. We are looking for an outstanding microscopist to run our cryo-EM facility (two Krioses and an Arctica), increase training, engagement, and collaboration on campus, expand our user base, and join our community of cutting edge cryo-EM researchers. tinyurl.com/ykasna3p
Scientific Director, Cal-Cryo@QB3, UC Berkeley’s Cryo-EM Facility
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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January 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Outstanding opportunity to lead a world-class core facility within @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social. Check it out and spread the word!
Amazing JB thread on JHU biophysics. Despite (because of?) its complexity, the PMB delivered a superb education... The 1st y core course in biophysical chemistry – led in the late 90s by Doug Barrick and Bertrand Garcia-Moreno – laid a rock solid foundation that continues to pay off decades later 🙏
Warm Water Baths and Three Biophysics Departments
A long and somewhat twisted (and very personal) path (with bits of science sprinkled in)
(Apologies for the length, lots to cover)
A long and somewhat twisted (and very personal) path (with bits of science sprinkled in)
(Apologies for the length, lots to cover)
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December 3, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Amazing JB thread on JHU biophysics. Despite (because of?) its complexity, the PMB delivered a superb education... The 1st y core course in biophysical chemistry – led in the late 90s by Doug Barrick and Bertrand Garcia-Moreno – laid a rock solid foundation that continues to pay off decades later 🙏
💯. Not stated enough!
I discovered something really important:
I really delighted in helping others succeed. It was (almost) better than exciting results from my own laboratory.
I regard this as one of the most important attributes of a chair.
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I really delighted in helping others succeed. It was (almost) better than exciting results from my own laboratory.
I regard this as one of the most important attributes of a chair.
38/n
December 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
💯. Not stated enough!
Excited to share our new paper in @PNASNews on mixed, reconstituted neurofilaments (NFs)! This work was led by ChemE PhD student Erika Ding and done in collab w Prof. Rui Wang and ChemE PhD student Takashi Yokokura here at Berkeley pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 2, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Excited to share our new paper in @PNASNews on mixed, reconstituted neurofilaments (NFs)! This work was led by ChemE PhD student Erika Ding and done in collab w Prof. Rui Wang and ChemE PhD student Takashi Yokokura here at Berkeley pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Remember the 2008 call from @jeremymberg.bsky.social well! The DP2 was our first NIH award and key to launching our lab. Fascinating to hear the inside story, and grateful to all who created this remarkable program.
Following a suggestion from @benecal.bsky.social I will refer to these threads as "skeetorials" and will use this gif logo.
Today's skeetorial is about the NIH Director's New Innovator Award with three different heroes (all in government).
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Today's skeetorial is about the NIH Director's New Innovator Award with three different heroes (all in government).
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November 23, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Remember the 2008 call from @jeremymberg.bsky.social well! The DP2 was our first NIH award and key to launching our lab. Fascinating to hear the inside story, and grateful to all who created this remarkable program.
What a pleasure visiting the iconic @notredame.bsky.social to give the AME/BioE seminar! Exciting to hear about the push to build in Bioengineering & Life Sciences, including some brilliant recent faculty recruitments and new lab space. Many thanks to @dhpgroup.bsky.social and colleagues ☘️
November 20, 2024 at 3:45 PM
What a pleasure visiting the iconic @notredame.bsky.social to give the AME/BioE seminar! Exciting to hear about the push to build in Bioengineering & Life Sciences, including some brilliant recent faculty recruitments and new lab space. Many thanks to @dhpgroup.bsky.social and colleagues ☘️
New paper in Advanced Materials! We develop a family of 3D viscoelastic HA matrices and use them to study effects of stress relaxation on GBM invasion. Led by ChemE PhD student Emily Carvalho in collaboration with Andreas Stahl (UCB) and Manish Aghi (UCSF) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Viscoelastic High‐Molecular‐Weight Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels Support Rapid Glioblastoma Cell Invasion with Leader–Follower Dynamics
Glioblastoma spheroids invade faster in stress-relaxing, high-molecular-weight (HMW) hyaluronic acid hydrogels than in more elastic-like, low-molecular-weight counterparts. The long HMW chains create....
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November 18, 2024 at 3:16 PM
New paper in Advanced Materials! We develop a family of 3D viscoelastic HA matrices and use them to study effects of stress relaxation on GBM invasion. Led by ChemE PhD student Emily Carvalho in collaboration with Andreas Stahl (UCB) and Manish Aghi (UCSF) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...