Grace Yuh Chwen Lee, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is the recipient of an Early Career Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health. The MIRAs are awarded annually to help “provide investigators with...
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Funds Multi-UC Bacteriophage Research Project
Katrine Whiteson, UC Irvine associate professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, and David Pride, associate professor of pathology at UC San Diego, have been awarded a research grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The two-year grant will help support their...
“Growing Bolder” Podcast Featuring James Hicks
Podcast Description: James Hicks, Ph.D., is a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California in Irvine. He's developed a new class called Exercise as Medicine that examines how and why physical activity can actually work better for us...
Steven D. Allison Appointed Director of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society
The School of Biological Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Steven Allison as the new Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society, effective October 1, 2021. The Newkirk Center has had a large impact on the campus and our...
UCI Scientists Identify Underlying Contributor to Rare Neurodegenerative Disease
In a new study published in the journal Science Advances, University of California, Irvine researchers describe a new mechanism for the onset of a rare microgliopathy. Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) is a rare autosomal...
Penetrating Long Covid’s Brain Fog
While most people with COVID-19 get better within two to three weeks, it has become
clear that a number experience lingering symptoms. The condition is known as
“post-acute COVID-19 syndrome” or “long COVID,” referring to issues that manifest more than
four weeks after patients have recovered from their initial diagnosis.
Pandemic Doesn’t Stop Students Environmental Fight
While COVID-19 has dominated public awareness over the past year and a half,
climate change, pollution, invasive species, fire and more continue to threaten
the world’s future. Fortunately, a group of graduate students could carry out
critical environmental investigations despite pandemic protocols limiting much
scientific activity at UCI in 2020.
Dunlop School Junior Researcher Selected for “Small World in Motion” Prize
Stephanie Hachey, Ph.D., was recently selected as the second-place winner of the 11th Annual Nikon Small World in Motion Competition. A postdoctoral scholar with Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Professor Christopher Hughes, Dr. Hachey submitted a 10-day time-lapse...
What You Need to Know About the Delta Variant
For more than 40 years, UCI infectious disease researcher Michael Buchmeier has studied coronaviruses, and he’s one of the leading experts on SARS-CoV-2, the version of the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. As a more lethal mutation of the virus, called the delta variant, sparks another wave of cases, he offers his expertise about this threat.