Plant and Microbial Biology Department

Plant & Microbial Biology is one of four departments in the prestigious College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley, and Bob Fischer is the current Chair of PMB. It is split into two divisions, Plant Biology and Microbial Biology The Department traces its origins to the reorganization of the biological science departments at Berkeley in the mid 1980s. The majority of the department's labs and administrative offices are located in Koshland Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Koshland Hall is named after Daniel Edward Koshland, Jr., a biochemist whose lab made made major discoveries concerning protein phosphorylation in bacteria.