Report summary

University of California, Berkeley Department of Molecular and Cell Biology in 2015-2026 reads as a 120-PI network with 282 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (46% of slots across 99 PIs; 99 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (31% of slots across 84 PIs; 84 labels), and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering as the leading topic (4% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 23 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Sabeeha Merchant (3926.9 weighted works; Algal biology and biofuel production, Earthquake Detection and Analysis). The strongest pairings are Xavier Darzacq and Robert Tjian (38 shared works, weight 18.2). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 34.5, around Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Structural Biology, led by Jennifer A. Doudna, Eva Nogales, Robert M. Glaeser.