University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA·Public
46 labs on PI Pages. It spends $1.1B a year on research and awards 825 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 48,556: 34,828 undergraduates, 13,728 graduate
- Postdocs
- 1,413
- Faculty
- 1,971 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Hannah Larson
Mathematics & Statistics·Early-career
Develop new intersection-theory methods for moduli spaces of low-genus algebraic curves, spaces whose points each represent a curve, and connect them to closely related moduli spaces.
Sona Kang
Physiology
Define how FAM3D, a protein genetically linked to type 2 diabetes, suppresses heat production and mitochondrial function in mouse and human brown fat cells.
Wick Haxton
Physics
Develop the theory of kilonovae, the light emitted after neutron star mergers, to determine whether merger debris can sustain the chain of nuclear reactions that forges heavy elements, using high-fidelity merger simulations.
Sara Abboud
Microbiology & Immunology·Early-career
Test whether the nerve sensor channels TRPV1 and TRPA1 change mucin-related gene activity in corneal and conjunctival cells, using RNA sequencing confirmed with qRT-PCR.
Karsten Gronert
Neuroscience
Define which retinal cells make and respond to prostaglandin D2 (PGD2), a fat-derived signaling molecule, in healthy retina and how raised eye pressure (ocular hypertension) shuts this pathway down.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.