UCI-led finding helps propel search for improved treatments Irvine, Calif., July...
Hellman Fellows for 2022-2023
The Hellman Fellowships Program, which recognizes promising assistant professors showing capacity for great distinction in their research, has honored two Dunlop School faculty for 2022-23. Developmental and Cell Biology Assistant Professor Xiaoyu Shi: Using...
Solving Algorithm ‘Amnesia’ Reveals Clues to How We Learn
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. The...
Immune Function Restored in Suppressed T Cells
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 activating dysfunctional T cells to fight skin cancer or...
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...
Dunlop School Celebrates Guiding Principles
On May 3rd, students, faculty and staff gathered in the Dunlop School Starbucks Plaza to celebrate the launch of Dunlop School’s Cultural Guiding Principles. The event marked a new era for the school and featured a live DJ, games, desserts and a photobooth. Following...
Dean Frank LaFerla — Ellis Island Medal of Honor
The story of Frank M. LaFerla, PhD, Dean of the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences and a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, is one with which many Americans are familiar. Born to Italian immigrants and raised in...
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...
2022 Lauds & Laurels Dunlop School Recipients
The University of California, Irvine Alumni Association will honor 23 accomplished individuals at the 2022 Lauds & Laurels ceremony on May 26. 3 Dunlop School members will be awarded.