Neurobiology and Behavior Chair Marcelo Wood and School of Medicine Professor Gary Lynch have been awarded a Multiple Primary Investigator (MPI) grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine epigenetic mechanisms in the brain governing drug-seeking...
Developmental and Cellular Biology Professor Christine Suetterlin is the Primary Investigator on a new R01 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Together with Professor Ming Tan from the School...
Developmental and Cell Biology Professor Thomas Schilling and Developmental and Cell Biology & Mathematics Professor Qing Nie have been awarded a new grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate the mechanisms that drive fate determination in...
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Professor Ilhem Messaoudi is among the UCI researchers awarded the 2020 Campus-Community Research Incubator (CCRI) grant. The CCRI grants are supported by the UCI Institute for Clinical & Translational Science and the Orange...
Alzheimer's is a disease that impacts the brain and represents between 60 to 80% of dementia cases. Although aging is Alzheimer's greatest significant risk factor, research shows the disease disproportionately affects women. With support from the UCI Institute for...
Maggie Davis is a superstar!! Since COVID hit, she has been nothing short of Dunlop School’s unsung hero! While most of us are working exclusively from home, Maggie goes to campus early in the mornings, once a week every week, to make sure that Neurobiology and...
A huge THANK YOU to our Teaching Support Staff! Normally tasked with providing support to the teaching laboratories in Dunlop School, this group has pivoted to help us out during COVID-19. Owen Shimizu, Mi Lay, Doty Laurel, Yelena Kondratyeva, Aris Lindo and Bella...
New CRISPR-based gene drive approach successfully overcomes issue of resistance in females
Mosquitoes are the vector for the parasitic disease malaria. In recent years, scientists like Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Donald Bren Professor Anthony James have been exploring new genetic-based approaches to control the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. In a...
Disconnect found between political affiliation, political decisions in the cognitively impaired