@micharapelab
Professor and Head of the Division of Molecular Therapeutics in MCB, UC Berkeley Founder, Nurix and Lyterian Therapeutics Excited about stress responses, ubiquitin, proteasome, targeted protein degradation, drug discovery
Congratulations to Ross Wilson in our Molecular Therapeutics Division in MCB at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social for delivering his promotion talk! Ross is developing new CRISPR delivery methods, spearheading our hands-on therapeutics discovery lab for undergrads, and founding Editpep!
Hi all, great @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting on Ubiquitin coming up. Poster deadline fast approaching (2/2). Held at some place (Banff!!) and time as Induced Proximity meeting. Hope to see you there!
Excited that our study identifying TRIP12 - an essential E3 ligase mutated in a neurodevelopmental disease - as a critical component of the oxidative stress response is now online. Congratulations to Andrew, Devlon and Jenny! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
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Tenure track position alert! Assistant Professor of Molecular Therapeutics in MCB @UCBerkeley. Apply and come be our colleague! 🎉
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Excited about turning basic science into new therapeutic modalities? Want to work with brilliant and *friendly* colleagues? Hoping to be part of a public university that shapes California? Then come join us #MolecularTherapeutics, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social !!!
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Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...
UC Berkeley isn’t just the No. 1 public research university in the nation — it’s a force for the public good. youtu.be/z0MokpvFauc?...
Jane Coffin Childs Fellows Aurora Alvarez-Buylla (Schepartz Lab), Grace Hibshman (Nogales Lab) and Heegwang Roh (Rapé Lab)
Congrats to MCB postdocs Aurora Alvarez-Buylla (Schepartz Lab), Grace Hibshman (Nogales Lab) and Heegwang Roh (Rapé Lab) for being selected as 2025 Jane Coffin Childs Fellows! 🎉👏 @jcchildsfund.bsky.social @nogaleslab.bsky.social @micharapelab.bsky.social www.jccfund.org/fellows/clas...
Many congratulations to Heegwang Roh for being selected as a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow! Go Heegwang!
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Thank you to Sara Osman for highlighting our recent SIFI work!
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Very excited about these unique opportunities - for advancing groundbreaking science and for our students to advance their careers - at @mti-ucb.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Congratulations James! From basic discovery to drugging it in such a short time! Amazing work out of #MolecularTherapeutics @mti-ucb.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social!!!
But please do not compare the pictures from the last 78 commencements we attended ;-)
Congratulations to our grad students Rachael McMinimy and Chris Padovani, who yesterday received their degrees from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! Thank you for everything, and we will miss you!
Thank you to Michael Ward for presenting his amazing science addressing urgent problems in neurodegenerative disease at a joint #MolecularTherapeutics, @mti-ucb.bsky.social, and Neuroscience talk at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social today! Great science helping patients is more important than ever!
Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics faculty and
@mti-ucb.bsky.social member @olzmannlab.bsky.social for receiving the Beatriz Manz award for 'transformational teaching and community service'. Glad to have you as a friend and colleague @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, James!
🌍 Meet Dr. Matt Welch, 2025 MTI Innovator Awardee!
His lab is developing selective inhibitors of parasite-specific kinesins - a new and safer strategy to treat African sleeping sickness and related diseases.
A leap forward in neglected tropical disease drug discovery.
#MTI #GlobalHealth
Thank you Jonathan!
Thank you Roberto!
Excited that our work revealing the structure and function of the monster stress response silencing factor, the E3 ligase SIFI, is now out! Congratulations to the most amazing team of Zhi Yang, Diane Haakonsen, Michael Heider and Sam Witus!
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🧠 Meet Dr. Ehud Isacoff, 2025 MTI Innovator Awardee!
His lab is using FRET-based biosensors to find compounds that fine-tune glutamate receptors - unlocking new treatments for depression, including hard-to-treat cases.
A new era of brain-targeted molecular therapeutics.
#MTI #Neurobiology #FRET
Thank you to @brentstockwell.bsky.social of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social for visiting #MolecularTherapeutics at @mti-ucb.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and presenting a tour-de-force through the ferroptosis field!
Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics faculty and @mti-ucb.bsky.social member Markita Landry on winning a Guggenheim Fellowship! So cool to work with such amazing colleagues on a daily basis!
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Congratulations!
Wonderful talk by @rushika-perera.bsky.social of @ucsfhealth.bsky.social today in our @mti-ucb.bsky.social/#MolecularTherapeutics seminar series at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social today, presenting cool data about organ-selective metastasis! Thank you!!!
Congratulations Ashley and Roberto and team!
New paper from @mti-ucb.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social faculty member @robzonculab.bsky.social ! Congratulations!!!
Congratulations Sam!
Congratulations to Mangyu and Denis! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Huge thank you to Leon Chen of The Column Group, who taught our #MolecularTherapeutics grad students the ins-and-outs of biotech today! 🙏