QBI

For #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience, QBI is drawing attention to the the important roles women play in science, and the continuous need for more diversity in #STEM. We asked four QBI women who have recently started their own labs, Faranak Fattahi, Pavithra Viswanath, Allison Williams and Balyn Zaro, to share the challenging as well as encouraging experiences they face in their careers. For the full interviews, visit our website: https://qbi.ucsf.edu/internationaldayofwomeninscience2021 https://youtu.be/HUJqs-3onp8

Listen to Nevan Krogan on KCBS Radio #AskAnExpert discuss his new collaborative research that reveals that #Aplidin, a cancer drug, is effective against the #coronavirus, including the UK strain

Watch Nevan Krogan's segment on KRON 4 News about the recent research revealing the potency of #Aplidin as a #SARSCoV2 treatment and when this drug may be able to hit the market

"From a rare marine sea squirt found only in the waters around the Spanish island of Ibiza comes a potential COVID-19 treatment called #Aplidin that researchers say has proven 27.5 times more effective than the well-known #remdesivir in human cells in the lab." Find out more about this research done by QBI and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Tune in to a new episode of "Biologists Being Basic" with Prof. Pascale Guitone about her path to science, her career in academia, her advocacy of #BIPOC voices in STEM, and the importance of diversity, representation, inclusion and equity in the sciences. http://biologistsbeingbasic.com #b3 #sciencepodcast #diversityinSTEM

We talk to special guest, Prof. Pascale Guiton about her research on the fascinating life cycle of #Toxoplasma #gondii. Tune in to hear us take a deeper look into the science behind the king of parasites! http://biologistsbeingbasic.com! #b3 #sciencepodcast

Nevan Krogan The Krogan Lab, Hannes Braberg & Ignacia Echeverria reflect on a 15-year study published in Science on a large-scale genetic approach to map the structure of protein complexes in live cell https://t.co/Q0DpVY4fuC?amp=1

Join us for a live discussion on HIV healthcare in Sierra Leone, as well as the disparities and HIV/AIDS-related stigmas that exist among communities in developing nations. The panel will feature Bailor Barrie, co-founder of Wellbody Alliance, a primary care clinic in Sierra Leone that offers healthcare programs for HIV, TB, and maternal/child health, and aims to build an effective healthcare system in their region that will save lives in a sustainable, equitable and just manner.

Tune in to a discussion with Mohamed Bailor Barrie of Wellbody Alliance and Partners In Health on HIV/AIDS-related challenges in developing nations, like Sierra Leone, and the continuous stride towards building reliable healthcare. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6hUq8pXrrBk Watch on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qbiucsf/posts/1332322897106431

A live discussion on the underrepresented experiences and obstacles trans men face when dealing with HIV/AIDS

Watch the episode, "HIV 2020: Where Are We Now?; Beliefs and Barriers to PrEP Among Trans Men, a live discussion on the underrepresented experiences and obstacles trans men face when dealing with HIV/AIDS. Tune in on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1M7D8rjz0sk

MERS, SARS, and COVID-19 are three deadly respiratory diseases caused by different coronavirus strains. Can we use the same weapons to fight them all, along wit...h any future coronavirus strains? New research by scientists at EMBL-EBI, QBI UCSF, the University of Freiburg, Institut Pasteur, and colleagues identifies drug targets and repurposed therapeutics that may have broad-spectrum activity across three different coronavirus strains. These therapeutics could be repurposed as COVID-19 treatments. https://www.ebi.ac.uk//repurposing-drugs-pan-coronavirus-t

Many scientists continue to work together to understand how the SARS-CoV-2 works and are in unique collaborative setups where accomplishments that would take years are completed in months. The QBI Coronavirus Research Group has many students, postdocs and trainees working together under the Structural Biology Consortium (SCB). Check out this video of the Crystallography Subgroup where Iris Young, Ursula Schulze-Gahmen, Huong Kratochvil and Nadia Herrera describe how cryst...allography plays a role in studying SARS-CoV-2! Tune in to QBI TV and learn more about the many players that make up the QCRG SBC, by clicking the link in our bio. #qcrg #qcrgsbc #qcrgminute #science #crystallography #collaboration #collaborativescience #covid_19 #molecules #structures #teamwork

QBI Investigator, Jennifer Doudna, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, for their revolutionary discovery of CRISPR. We’ve been delighted to have Doudna as a longtime collaborator using CRISPR-based approaches to study host pathogen interactions and neuropsychiatric disorders as part of three QBI center grants, including HPMI (hpmi.ucsf.edu), HARC (harc.ucsf.edu), and PCMI (pcmi.ucsf.edu). We applaud the ground-breaking advances she has... contributed to science and honor her achievements, along with the rest of the world today. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry//press-release/

Michelle Moritz,Tristan Owens and Sergei Pourmal from the Purification Subgroup in the QCRG Structural Biology Consortium describe how their work plays a role in a larger effort to gain insight on SARS-CoV-2 and how to combat it. Tune in to QBI TV and learn more about the QCRG Structural Biology Consortium by clicking the link in our bio! #qcrg #qcrgminute #Structuralbiologyconsortium #purification #cellfunctions #proteincomplex #viralproteins

QCRG Scientists, Klim Verba and Oren Rosenberg, tell the story of how the QCRG Structural Biology Consortium (a group that includes around 60 people from over 15 labs at UCSF and is mostly driven by graduate students, postdocs and faculty) started and continues to play an important role in collaborative science and in understanding how viruses inactivate human cells and turn them into virus-making factories. Through structural biology, the group is able to visualize pathogenetic processes at the atomic level and aims to turn new insights into drugs and therapies for viruses, like SARS-CoV-2. Tune in to QBI TV for more on 60 Seconds: A QCRG Minute. Link in bio! #QCRG #QCRGMinute #structuralbiology #atomic #pathogenicprocesses #inhibitors #sciencecollaboration

Join us tomorrow at @ 4 PM for an online seminar featuring Roland Dunbrack @rolanddunbrack of @foxchasecancercenter, hosted by @fraser_lab! Swipe for more details and register using the link in our bio! #qbionlineseminar #proteinloop #kinases #antibodies #ras #tunein

QCRG scientist, Jim Wells, reflects on how collaborations that formed within the QBI Coronavirus Research Group to combat COVID-19 have transformed the research community. Tune in to QBI TV for more on "60 Seconds: A QCRG Minute". Link in bio! #QCRG #QCRGMinute

QCRG Scientist, Sarah Rockwood, explains collaborative research published on Biorxiv, which looks at how SARS-CoV-2 is able to enter the heart and affect its cell types directly. By using a method called QPCR in in vitro stem cell systems (the same method we use to get tested for COVID-19) it was found that cardiomyocytes, the main cell type in the heart that drives contraction, are very susceptible to SARS-CoV-2; a novel finding that is believed to partially explain the severe signs of acute cardiac injury in some patients infected with SARS-CoV-2. Subscribed to QBI TV and check out other 60 Second episodes Link in bio! #QCRG #QCRGminute

Join us on Wednesday 9/9 @ 11AM for an online seminar featuring Pascale Guiton of @csueb hosted by Judy Sakanari @ucsfpharmacy. Swipe for more details and register now: https://qbi.ucsf.edu/seminar-guiton