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Neuroscientist Hillel Adesnik named Pew Scholar

Neuroscientist Hillel Adesnik named Pew Scholar June 14, 2013:

Assistant professor Hillel Adesnik, a neuroscientist in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, was named a Pew Scholar, one of 22 early-career faculty members from around the nation so honored. A former UCSF post-doc, Adesnik uses novel optical probing technologies to uncover the neural basis of perception.

Berkeley joins international effort to share human genetic data

Berkeley joins international effort to share human genetic data June 6, 2013:

UC Berkeley and some 70 other research institutions, non-profits and funding agencies around the globe have signed an agreement to create a way to securely share the genetic information gathered in human research but unavailable now to other scientists.