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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...
Testing the waters - Berkeley Engineering
Researchers have found that stored drinking water is a key transmission pathway for E. coli
engineering.berkeley.edu
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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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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
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November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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
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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...
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
engineering.berkeley.edu
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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...
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...
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.
news.berkeley.edu
October 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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...
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-...
Andrew Dillin on CURED, UC Berkeley’s new approach to advance medicine and global health | Letters & Science
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October 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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-...
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:
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October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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:
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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...
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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October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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...
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...
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.
news.berkeley.edu
October 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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...
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...
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.
news.berkeley.edu
September 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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...
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...
September 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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...
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...
Four of UC Berkeley’s early-career scientists named Pew Scholars | Letters & Science
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September 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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...
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...
NSF commits $18 million to renewed funding for the Center for Genetically Encoded Materials | College of Chemistry
chemistry.berkeley.edu
September 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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...
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...
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...
news.berkeley.edu
September 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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...
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...
Read our interview: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/faculty...
September 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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...
Read our interview: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/faculty...
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...
A well-deserved honor! Her discoveries have revolutionized gene editing and transformed the future of medicine. cen.acs.org/people/award...
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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August 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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...
A well-deserved honor! Her discoveries have revolutionized gene editing and transformed the future of medicine. cen.acs.org/people/award...
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
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
July 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
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
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
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
July 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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
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
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
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
June 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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
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
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
📖 Full interview here: bit.ly/AltemoseQB3
May 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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
📖 Full interview here: bit.ly/AltemoseQB3
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🧬 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
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
April 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
🧬 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
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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Check my article contribution for @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social about the Chichancanab pupfish radiation! 🐟😍
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 🐟
Read the story from @fishfena.bsky.social, a postdoc in @fishspeciation.bsky.social's lab: bit.ly/QB3-fish 🐟
April 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Check my article contribution for @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social about the Chichancanab pupfish radiation! 🐟😍
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 🐟
Read the story from @fishfena.bsky.social, a postdoc in @fishspeciation.bsky.social's lab: bit.ly/QB3-fish 🐟
April 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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 🐟
Read the story from @fishfena.bsky.social, a postdoc in @fishspeciation.bsky.social's lab: bit.ly/QB3-fish 🐟
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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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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February 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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
He chats with us about his recent paper in @pnas.org, overcoming research challenges, and more.
Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas
April 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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
He chats with us about his recent paper in @pnas.org, overcoming research challenges, and more.
Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas
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
Read more: bit.ly/Andreas-Stahl-QB3
March 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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
Read more: bit.ly/Andreas-Stahl-QB3