Studies conducted by UC Irvine show that male plants don’t listen to female plants, even when their survival depends on it.

New insights on circumventing a key obstacle on the road to anti-scarring treatment have been published by Maksim Plikus, an associate professor in developmental and cell biology at the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences and colleagues in Nature Communications.

Neurobiology and Behavior Professor Michael Yassa has published a new manuscript in the journal, Nature Neuroscience. In the study, led by Professor Yassa’s graduate student Maria Montchal, the research team identified areas of the brain that control how people precisely remember the correct order in which recent events have occurred.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Kathleen K. Treseder has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Congratulations to 16 of our MSP students who recently received best poster awards for their research at the 2018 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for MinorityStudents (ABRCMS).

When the opportunity arose in 1965 for David Edwards to join the Ph.D. program in the School of Biological Sciences at UCI, then the University of California’s newest campus, he seized it without a second thought. Five decades after receiving his degree, he says his...

In the first Dean’s Distinguished Lecture of the 2018-2019 School year, Neurobiology and Behavior Chair Marcelo Wood told a packed audience a compelling story on the biology of addiction.