Professor Charles G. Glabe (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry) has been awarded the title of UCI Chancellor’s Professor. The Chancellor’s title is designated for faculty at the Professor level who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and show continued promise...
School of Biological Sciences Professor Maksim Plikus (Developmental and Cell Biology) and Mathematics Professor Qing Nie have discovered that a critical cell signaling mechanism involved in developing body tissues also serves a role in regulating how hair grows in...
Professor Kathleen K. Treseder (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) studies the contribution of soil organisms to climate change. Her work on soil fungi was recently featured in the Orange County Register. Fungi can recycle organic molecules from dead organisms within...
Children are at risk of developing poor vision in one eye due to amblyopia (a visual disorder due to abnormal vision during critical periods of brain development), which affects approximately 2 to 5 out of every 100 children. Dunlop School postdoctoral researcher...
Professor Leslie M. Thompson (Neurobiology and Behavior and Psychiatry and Human Behavior) and her collaborators, have identified new defects in the blood vessels that form the blood-brain barrier in Huntington’s disease (HD) patients. Utilizing technology that...
Collaboration and innovation should not be seen as separate processes, but as complementary parts working together to bring out change. On May 19th, the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Medicine held the second annual joint faculty retreat to help learn...
In a recent study led by Neurobiology and Behavior Professor Mathew Blurton-Jones and UCI Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders Associate Researcher Wayne Poon, a team of researchers devised a way to reprogram adult skin cells into stem cells and...
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Center for Environmental Biology (CEB) are excited to announce the new Masters in Conservation and Restoration Science (MCRS) graduate program providing training for students interested in careers in the research and management...
With malaria continuing to exact a severe toll in tropical and subtropical areas, UCI is taking a leadership role in fighting it through the newly created UCI Malaria Initiative. Geneticist Anthony A. James, Ph.D. (Donald Bren Professor of Molecular Biology and...
On May 3rd, the School of Biological Sciences was honored to have Professor Peter J. Donovan (Developmental and Cell Biology, and Biological Chemistry) give an insightful lecture on the future of stem cells in research and as tools for drug discovery. Professor...