Making Biology Come Alive
At the UCI School of Biological Sciences, our faculty is made up of accomplished visionaries who believe in the power of your ideas. Although our Faculty is focused on their research to make the world a better place, they are also dedicated to training the next generation of talented Biologist. Driven by the School’s theme MIND | BODY | WORLD, they are also more than happy to help you realize those ideas. In fact this one-on-one attention and collaboration is unique to UCI, and nowhere else can you work alongside such bright and impassioned researchers who are making distinctive marks in their field. With this in mind, we invite you to learn more about what makes our professors and researchers great.
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Marcelo Wood, PhD
Professor and Chair | Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
(949) 824-2259
mwood@uci.edu
3212 Biological Sciences III
Kavita Arora, PhD
Professor and Chair | Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
(949) 824-1087
karora@uci.edu
4215 McGGaugh Hall
Celia Goulding, PhD
Professor and Chair | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
(949) 824- 0337
celia.goulding@uci.edu
2212 Natural Sciences 1
Travis Huxman, PhD
Professor and Chair | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
(949) 824-2594
thuxman@uci.edu
449 Steinhaus Hall
Faculty News
The Hellman Fellowships Program, which recognizes promising assistant professors showing capacity for great distinction in their research, has honored two BioSci faculty for 2022-23.Developmental and Cell Biology Assistant Professor Xiaoyu Shi: Using super-resolution microscopy and chemical…
Finding by UCI biologists could help combat cognitive impairments.
Photo Credit: Manuella Yassa, CNLM
A discovery about how algorithms can learn and retain information more efficiently offers potential insight into the brain’s ability to absorb new knowledge….
Steven Allison, professor of Ecology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement…