Why do some brains remain robust as time marches on, while others wither? What can be done to halt deterioration in its tracks, or even better — reverse it?
That’s the mystery that decades of work at UCI and other federal research centers are dedicated to unraveling. Some of the biggest brains in science are devoted to understanding aging, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Climate change is in large parts responsible for this storm, says Professor Kathleen Treseder, from the University of California, Irvine’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department.
UCs Irvine, Riverside and San Diego are working to find solutions to manage the impacts from climate change with a regional project to reduce risks in California, led by UCI and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Steven Allison.
Kathleen Treseder thinks a lot about potential solutions for problems like erosion. She studies and teaches climate change at the University of California, Irvine. She says many of the expensive homes along Orange County’s coastline might withstand waves lapping at their porches, but they could be taken out by a storm surge.
When most people think about saving the bees, its usually the honeybees. In reality, saving the honeybee population is just the beginning. There are thousands of other species of wild bees we should be thinking about. They are not only vital to the ecosystem, studying wild bees has benefits for humans too.
KCBS Radio’s Liz Saint John spoke with Tobin J. Hammer, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine.
Three University of California, Irvine researchers will receive more than $8 million in climate action gran ts to support projects that will help advance progress toward California’s climate goals.
The Psychonomic Society will confer scientific awards each year upon young scientists who have made excellent scientific contributions to the field of cognitive psychology early in their careers.
Bees that build microbreweries, ride a miniature merry-go-round and possibly even wear diapers. In biologist Tobin Hammer’s UCI lab, all sorts of unusual projects unfold.
The University of California, Irvine has announced the establishment of the “Dr. Lionel and Fay Ng Dean’s Chair in Biological Sciences” in an exciting
In searching for the genetic mechanism behind this difference, the UCI biologists selected as their subject Heliconius charithonia, in which visual capacity is sexually dimorphic. When they finished assembling the first complete genome for this species, they learned that its W – or female – chromosome contained the opsin gene.
