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Nikhil Malvankar
January 4, 2021
The Malvankar Lab and members of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California collaborated to the PNAS publication discovering “hopping”...
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December 4, 2020
Congratulations to MB&B graduate Robert Fernandez, one of three recipients of the prestigious Yale-Jefferson Award. Fernandez was awarded for inspiring others and is...
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December 4, 2020
Dr. Joan Steitz, a beloved scientist and powerhouse of the MB&B department, has been awarded the Prize Medal from the Microbiology Society. This award is given to “an...
December 2, 2020
Check out this video where members of the MB&B community provide more information on how to apply and what it’s like to be in our department!
November 30, 2020
This year, candidates for tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in MB&B will be asked to submit anonymized applications—no names of people, places, funding agencies...
November 25, 2020
Nature Communications published a paper last week that concluded ‘senior’ female scientists are less effective than their male counterparts at mentoring ‘junior’ female...
November 20, 2020
Rapid advancements in genome sequencing technology have enabled the generation of detailed functional genomic datasets. The datasets allow for the quantification of...