UC Berkeley: Metabolic Biology & Molecular Toxicology Graduate Programs

Prof Dan Nomura and colleagues discover a family of natural products that function as molecular glues to link UBR7 and p53, resulting in p53 transcriptional activation and breast cancer cell death. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41589-020-0557-2

New work from Asst Prof Sona Kang's lab identifies TET1 as a potent beige adipose-selective epigenetic suppressor of the thermogenesis. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18054-y

Congratulations to associate professor James Olzmann for receiving the 2020 Günter Blobel Early Career Award from the American Society for Cell Biology! The Olzmann research group studies the cell biology of lipid homeostasis and its importance in metabolic diseases and cancer. https://nature.berkeley.edu//james-olzmann-receives-g-nter

Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology professor Dan Nomura recently coauthored a study describing a new pathway for targeted protein degradation, which is an important tool in drug discovery. Read the paper: https://chemrxiv.org//Targeted_Protein_Degradatio/12055935

The Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science awarded Environmental Science, Policy, & Management (ESPM) - UC Berkeley professor Steven Beissinger and Nutr...itional Sciences & Toxicology professor James Olzmann the Miller Professorship. Congratulations! https://nature.berkeley.edu//two-cnr-professors-receive-mi