Our ability to think, decide, remember recent events and more, comes from our brain’s neocortex. Now University of California, Irvine neuroscientists have discovered key aspects of the mechanisms behind these functions.
How to Make Lab Research More Successful for Humans
Why do many treatments that work in animal models fail in people? In his new book, Neurobiology and Behavior professor Georg Striedter says researchers sometimes unwittingly set the stage for defeat by overlooking species differences when designing their studies. To...
Carlene Chinn and Adviser Dr. Marcelo Wood Awarded Prestigious Gilliam Fellowship
Click for Full HHMI Release Carlene Chinn, a Fourth-year PhD candidate in UCI’s Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and adviser Dr. Marcelo Wood have been awarded the prestigious Gilliam Fellowship by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam...
A Pair’s Power to Combat Disease
When it comes to fighting deadly cancers, as well as chronic infections such as HIV and hepatitis B, C, two is better than one. That’s the finding published by the laboratory of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry assistant professor Dr. Roberto Tinoco. In...
What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis
UCI Scientists Win $3.5 Million Grant for Bold Addiction Research Irvine, Calif., July 18, 2022 -The role of gene alterations resulting from childhood adversity in adults addicted to heroin and a search for blood tests to predict addiction vulnerability are part...
How a protein breaks free to cause deadly cancers
UCI-led finding helps propel search for improved treatments Irvine, Calif., July...
Immune Function Restored in Suppressed T Cells
Professor Roberto Tinoco (left) and Julia DeRogatis Professor Roberto Tinoco in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, who explores how the immune system can fight disease, recently published a paper with his lab that outlines a novel approach to...
Decades of Data Show Impact of Earlier Snowmelt on Plant Populations
Professor Diane Campbell in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, whose research focuses on understanding how evolution takes place in real time in nature, recently published a paper with her colleagues Mary Price, Nickolas Waser, Rebecca Irwin and...
Collaborative Paper Finds Cell-to-Cell Communication Mathematically Optimal
Cell-to-cell communication is a large part of Professor Dae Seok Eom’s research. In particular, the Eom lab focuses on a novel signaling projection called airinemes, which have meandering trajectories as they travel from the signal sending cell to the target cell. The...
Four professors elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Irvine, Calif., April 28, 2022 — A quartet of professors at the University of California, Irvine, has been elected as members by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The 242nd class of AAAS inductees includes 261 extraordinary people from around the...