A Pair’s Power to Combat Disease

A Pair’s Power to Combat Disease

When it comes to fighting deadly cancers, as well as chronic infections such as HIV and hepatitis B, C, two is better than one. That’s the finding published by the laboratory of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry assistant professor Dr. Roberto Tinoco. In...

What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

UCI Scientists Win $3.5 Million Grant for Bold Addiction Research Irvine, Calif., July 18, 2022 -The role of gene alterations resulting from childhood  adversity in adults addicted to heroin and a search for blood tests to predict addiction vulnerability are part...

Immune Function Restored in Suppressed T Cells

Immune Function Restored in Suppressed T Cells

Professor Roberto Tinoco (left) and Julia DeRogatis 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...

Decades of Data Show Impact of Earlier Snowmelt on Plant Populations

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...

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...

How life works is his life’s work

How life works is his life’s work

UCI professor of developmental and cell biology seeks answers to how genes are regulated by Matt Coker, UCI | April 4, 2022 “My interest is in understanding how our DNA regulates when our genes are turned on and off in different tissues and how this genetic program is...

Remembering Professor Krishna K. Tewari

Remembering Professor Krishna K. Tewari

In remembrance of Professor Tewari passing in 2017, former colleagues recently published an article about him and his accomplishments in Current Plant Biology.