Geneticist Wins Award to Advance the Study of Transposable Elements in the Genome
Grace Yuh Chwen Lee, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is the recipient of an Early Career Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from
Grace Yuh Chwen Lee, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is the recipient of an Early Career Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from
Katrine Whiteson, UC Irvine associate professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, and David Pride, associate professor of pathology at UC San Diego, have been
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
The School of Biological Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Steven Allison as the new Director of the Newkirk Center for
In a new study published in the journal Science Advances, University of California, Irvine researchers describe a new mechanism for the onset of a
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.
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.
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
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.