Berkeley Biophysics
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@UCBerkeley Biophysics student-run account. The Biophysics Graduate Group trains students at the interface of physics and biology across several departments.
Joined October 2020
We'll be at the virtual UC Berkeley Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair, Oct 17-21, among 80+ sessions! Learn about our application process and meet some faculty and students in our program during our session and Q&A on Wed Oct 19, 10a PDT. Register free: https://t.co/rpmFkZ6Wnv
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I am super proud of this piece authored by @lfblackmon and I - we synthesized stats on #gender #diversity in the #imaging and #optics field and how academic + career bootcamps like ours at Cal can increase #belonging for women in optics. 🔬👩🏾🔬👩🏻🔬
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
As scientific projects and labs benefit from increasingly interdisciplinary expertise, students and trainees find themselves navigating a myriad of academic spaces, each with its own workplace...
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Happy to share this preprint, led by soon-to-be-PhD Daniel Rosenberg @UCB_Biophysics/@BerkeleyLab (& my 1st corr author paper!). ⚛️🧬 https://t.co/hFX9ahTGCs
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We are excited to share our EVENTS for #BlackInBiophysicsWeek 2023!!! 🙌🏾 We will be hosting #BIBPSWeek from Monday, 5/22 to Friday 5/26. Please RT and help us spread the word! A thread of Events below👇🏾 #BIBPS23
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Congrats to @UCB_Biophysics and @BerkeleyBioE Prof. Aaron Streets @airstreets for the Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity! 👏👏👏Dr. Streets leads top-notch research, is director of the BioESP program, and cofounded the Next Gen Faculty symposium!
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Congrats to our graduate advisor staff member Kate Chase, who is the recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Advising and Student Services Award! Huge congrats Kate, our students know you’re the best! 🎉🥳✨🙌
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Incredibly proud to see our lab member and @UCB_Biophysics PhD student Kahmina Ford featured in the @CentralWashU Crimson & Black alum mag! Prepare to be inspired... @QB3Berkeley
https://t.co/yvA41AWtHH
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.@UCBerkeley's Biophysics graduate program is open for applications! The program is home to remarkable students, stellar faculty, fantastic facilities, and a host of wonderful opportunities in the Bay Area. Learn more about admissions: https://t.co/70nqjhRs2l Please retweet!
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TENURED! Three days since I got the official letter and I'm still in disbelief. I was never the strongest student and never expected to even get into grad school. This win is for all of you who took a chance on me & mí familia ❤️ & all lab members. Thank you, gracias #SiSePuede
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https://t.co/vY1450cH1n Excited to share our new work out today in @ScienceMagazine, led by stellar postdoc Regina @hijaishin! We report the discovery of LYCHOS, a candidate cholesterol sensor for the mTORC1 kinase. Below is a brief summary of the story.
science.org
A cholesterol sensor for the growth regulator protein kinase complex mTORC1 is identified.
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So excited about our new preprint! In a tour de force, super star grad student @Mel__Roberts used genome-edited reporter cells and a series of CRISPR screens to identify mechanisms of PLIN2 and #LipidDroplet regulation under different metabolic states. 🤩 https://t.co/fYQGeT1I4q
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Lipid droplets (LDs) are lipid storage organelles that consist of a central core of neutral lipids surrounded by a phospholipid monolayer decorated with a unique set of integral and peripheral...
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Our review on advances in covalent drug discovery by @lydiaboike @n_j_henning in Nature Drug Discovery!
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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery - The rational discovery of covalent drugs depends on an expanding toolset of techniques. Here, Daniel Nomura and colleagues highlight covalent drugs that have...
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Congrats to all the stellar scientists that were awarded an amazing @HHMINEWS Hannah Gray fellowship today! Special shout-out to Aaron Joiner @TheHurleyLab @UCBerkeley @berkeleyMCB! https://t.co/TAsF8FZMuk
hhmi.org
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QB3-Berkeley's next director is Sanjay Kumar! Join us in congratulating and welcoming our new director 🎉 https://t.co/oBFGhLU5tR
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Embryonic retinal waves! In new study led by superstar student @CVoufo, @AndyQuaen and Ben Smith, a team led by @atiriac1, we describe waves at early stages of development – long before proper neural circuits are present in the retina. https://t.co/3K0MsoB3re
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So proud of our students and staff in Integrative Biology and MCB for a great conference today and the launch of a cross-departmental initiative @berkeleyIB @berkeleyMCB #DiversifyThePhD
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Hola, our latest work is now up on PNAS. Mechanical disassembly of nucleosomes using optical tweezers with fluorescence detection (Fleezers). @CesarDiazC, @cccDNA, Robert, Juan Pablo, @Meng3054, Enze, @AndyQuaen, Michael, Ryan, Bibiana, and Carlos. https://t.co/k85quIUkli
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Nucleosome DNA unwrapping and its disassembly into hexasomes and tetrasomes is necessary for genomic access and plays an important role in transcri...
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Thank you @Regeneron for this amazing award and congrats to the top winners! It was such an inspiring process to write a dream proposal and think big about global problems and then meet some of the scientific minds trying to tackle them. 🤩
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Listen to this Cryo-Talk featuring MCB’s Eva Nogales @NogalesLab who was selected by Thermo Fisher Scientific as one of the international leaders in Cryo-electron microscopy! https://t.co/AtK90t1lbC
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We have 9 spots left, so please sign up before Monday! We are open to all Berkeley grad students, but particularly encourage incoming first years to sign up for this FREE bootcamp. #WomenInSTEM #Microscopy #AcademicTwitter
I am thrilled to be organizing the Women in Imaging + Industry Applications bootcamp August 3-11! Geared to incoming grad students, we will cover basic optics, hands-on demos, nano-rotations, and company tours + build community among women microscopists in the Bay! 👩🏾🔬👩🏻🔬👩🏼🔬🔬🧫
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