September 8th , 2025

We are excited to welcome our new postdoc Zach! He is joining us from the lab of Dr. Lauren Stadler at Rice

March 25, 2025

We are excited to welcome our newest postdoc, Madeline! She is joining us from UW Madison's Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

March 2, 2025

Submission of CRISPRi-ART enables functional genomics of diverse bacteriophages using RNA-binding dCas13d to Nature Microbiology

February 15th,  2025

We had a blast presenting our research at the CRISPR conference and geeking out over CRISPR science with all our new friends in the field! It was inspiring to see the amazing progress happening across so many areas—can’t wait to see what’s next!

January 15, 2025

The lab continues to grow as we welcome the addition of two postdocs, Liana and Sally! 

March 2, 2025

Pia completed her rotations and officially joined our lab as a joint member of the Cress and Ronda labs! She will be focusing on research in pairwise functional genomics. We are absolutely thrilled to welcome them aboard!

October 31 , 2024

This year our spooky theme of choice is Mario cart!

October 14 , 2024

We’re excited to welcome two new undergraduate students, Lucas and Julianne, who joined our team this month! They will be helping Agnes with her work on bacteriocins. 

September 16, 2024

We are celebrating the first official collaboration on a paper between the Cress and Rubin Lab! Check it out:

Identification of Proteins Influencing CRISPR-Associated Transposases for Enhanced Genome Editing

October 19th, 2024

Today we welcomed back Ryuichi (formerly a visiting scholar) as a new PhD student. We are thrilled to have him back and excited to see the innovative research and insights he'll bring to our team!

August 8th, 2024

Juana, the first Cress lab undergraduate is starting her new role as an intern at Gordian bio. She captured some of the first wild plasmids from microbes for the Cress lab!

August 2nd, 2024

Alex, a valuable member of the UCBCU initiative, has successfully completed his summer internship at the Cress Lab. Although we miss having him around the lab, we are excited to see where his journey takes him next!

July 8th, 2024

Brady and Ben Adler from Doudna lab presented at Viruses of microbes 2024, and Ben was awarded one of two postdoc awards for their talk!

July 2nd, 2024

Angela joins the lab as a phage tech and Hannah joins the lab as a lab manager!

October 31st, 2023

Happy Halloween from our lab and the Rubin lab. This year's theme was lord of the rings, can’t wait for next halloween!

September 18, 2023

Submission of CRISPRi-ART enables functional genomics of diverse bacteriophages using RNA-binding dCas13d to Nature Microbiology

August 31, 2022

Kate dives headfirst into presenting for the first joint Cress/Rubin lab meeting!

August 1, 2022

The Cress Lab opens its doors in the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley.