Happy Holidays from MCB! Hope you enjoy our year-end video highlighting some of our 2023 memories together: youtu.be/7elCHPzzADA?fe… via YouTube

Deadline for our faculty search in Nutrient Sensing is extended to Dec 18. Apply to do science with me, Ana Paula Arruda, James Olzmann, David D. Moore, other excellent tweeterless metabolism labs, and students from an outstanding UC Berkeley Metabolic Biology PhD program. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04203

Super excited about the lineup of talks and posters at #BAPG at Stanford on Dec. 2 bapg-conference.github.io Special thanks to Sophie Jean Walton (she/her) and James Kitchens for putting together the website.

We are pleased to share our paper, new in @sciencemagazine, on the scale, impact, and mechanisms underlying mutations arising in meiosis. Thanks to the team, collaborators, and colleagues! (1/2)

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

It’s #GivingTuesday ! Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC-Berkeley. A set of different programs to which you can donate are available here, which benefit students and basic research: mcb.berkeley.edu/about-the-depa…

Interesting study finding more clustered de novo variants (distance <20bp) transmitted from parents who were exposed to radiation.
Fig:
CRU: Chernobyl cleanup workers (CRU) (mean 2.65)
RADAR: German soldiers exposed to radar (1.48)
INOVA: controls (0.88)
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to share this chapter from Julien Joseph’s PhD:
High prevalence of Prdm9-independent recombination hotspots in placental mammals
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
This work was conducted by Julien JOSEPH, in collaboration with PRENTOUT Djivan, Alexandre Laverré, and Théo Tricou.

A top science journal fired its editor over a pro-Palestinian tweet. He has no regrets. motherjones.com/politics/2023/… via Mother Jones

Please register by Nov. 18 if you want to give a talk/poster at BAPG at Stanford on Dec. 2. docs.google.com/forms/d/14ne_J…

Amazing review of computational methods in ancient DNA and forensics. Very impressive.
Ainash Childebayeva Elena Zavala

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Tomorrow the UC Davis UC Davis Genome Center will host its annual Halloween symposium focused on Human Genetic Diversity in the Era of Big Data with guest speakers Priya Moorjani from UC Berkeley and Lucia Hindorff from NHGRI

Save the date: The Fall 2023 #BAPG (Bay Area Population Genomics Conference) will be hosted by the Petrov lab at Stanford on Dec 2, 2023. The details are to follow! As always registration is free and most speaking slots are reserved for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Eisen was removed from eLife - the journal for sharing an Onion article that used satire to criticize the dehumanization of Palestinian citizens.

Not for saying 'Fuck Israel' in ::checks notes:: 2018 in response to the news happening that day - Israeli forces opening fire on protesters.

The recording is now available at mediasite.osu.edu/Mediasite/Play…

Are you thinking about UC Berkeley MCB for graduate school? Register now for the virtual #BerkeleyGradDiversity Admissions Fair, Oct. 30-Nov. 3 and attend the Molecular & Cell Biology, PhD Program session on Nov 1st from 1 PM – 2 PM PT #admissionsfair
bit.ly/admitdivfair23

I still believe deeply in the need for a radical restructuring of science publishing to create an open and fair system that works well for science, for all scientists everywhere, and the public that supports us, and am proud of the steps we have taken to begin to get us there.

If you are a tenured professor in the life/neuro sciences who values open exchange of ideas in academia, please sign our new petition telling HHMI and eLife not to censure Michael Eisen for tweeting about the Middle East.
eLife - the journal and @HHMINews
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

This is really sad - both for free speech and the future of publishing.
twitter.com/mbeisen/status…
twitter.com/molly_przew/st…

Interested in doing your PhD in #EVOLUTION & #GENOMICS ?

Check out the incredible lineup of faculty at the Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics BerkeleyCTEG.org

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Super interactive: joint journal clubs, talk series, shared space, social events,…