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The Tetrad Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program
The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program (BMB) is a member of the Tetrad consortium within PIBS. The BMB faculty members are drawn from three of the four Schools of UCSF, and from eight Departments (Anatomy, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Physiology, Stomatology).
Research within BMB employs biochemical and molecular approaches to approach a broad range of problems, from neoplasia to protein targeting, from enzyme catalysis to cell motility, from yeast genetics and genomics to x-ray crystallography, from transcriptional regulation to neurodevelopment. As with other Tetrad and PIBS programs, BMB researchers are highly interactive and collaborative. Indeed, a guiding principle of the program is to instill understanding and appreciation of the interactiveness and interrelatedness of diverse research approaches and experimental systems.
Molecular Biology Program Activities
Training in BMB is accomplished through a combination of carefully designed didactic courses, a vigorous seminar program that includes a student lunch with the speaker, a weekly dinner and discussion for students and a faculty member of their choice, opportunities for oral presentation and defense of scientific information and hypotheses, and interaction with colleagues at the Tetrad retreat each fall and throughout the year in the corridors and laboratories of UCSF.
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| Featured paper | | Bypassing a kinase activity with an ATP-competitive drug
Walter Lab | | Download the pdf |
| Featured lab |  | | Electrical Signaling at the Mitochondrion in Health and Disease | | Kirichok Lab | | Go to lab webpage |
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