From left: Assistant Professor Benjamin Morehouse, undergraduate Anny Wang, graduate student Eirene Marie Ednacot. Irvine, Calif., August 6, 2025 — In a new study published in Science, researchers from the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences at UC Irvine, in...
The UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences is proud to announce that seven of its faculty members have been selected as 2024 awardees of the UC Irvine Anti-Cancer Challenge, a community-based initiative that raises funds to support promising cancer...
Assistant Professor Evgeny Kvon and graduate student Grace Bower. Irvine, Calif., July 2, 2025 — How do cells know which genes to activate, and when? For decades, scientists have puzzled over how distant parts of our DNA — sometimes millions of base pairs apart — can...
Ghazaleh Eskandari-Sedighi, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the BrightFocus Foundation’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research program. The two-year, $200,000 grant will support her...
Each spring, UC Irvine’s campus comes alive with ideas, energy and discovery as undergraduate researchers take the spotlight. During April and May, the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences hosts research presentations that are the culmination of its...
Professor Diego A. Pizzagalli is lead investigator for this study.
Diego Pizzagalli, PhD, director of the Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries, and Peter Zhukovsky, PhD, Scientist in the Brain Health Imaging Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Irvine, Calif., April 23, 2025 — Finding...
Postdoctoral scholar Liz Ortiz and Assistant Professor Travis Wiles track the movement of phages by tagging them with fluorescent markers. Photo credit: Ritwik Kumar. Irvine, Calif., April 18, 2025 — In a world where gut health is increasingly linked to everything...
Dr. Travis Wiles, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work he and his research group have done to visualize the changing dynamics of the gut microbiome—including bacteriophages residing there.