Report summary

The 2018-2020 picture for University of California, Berkeley Department of Plant and Microbial Biology is a 42-PI network with 30 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (38% of slots across 26 PIs; 26 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (28% of slots across 25 PIs; 25 labels), and Plant Molecular Biology Research as the leading topic (7% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Jillian F. Banfield (19.2 weighted works; Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology). The clearest collaboration lines are Devin Coleman‐Derr and John W. Taylor (5 shared works, weight 2.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 11.6, around Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, led by Sheng Luan, Henrik Vibe Scheller, Devin Coleman‐Derr.