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UC Irvine Scientists Uncover Hidden Line of Immune Defense Shared Across Life on Earth
From left: Assistant Professor Benjamin Morehouse, undergraduate Anny Wang, graduate student Eirene Marie Ednacot. Irvine, Calif., August 6, 2025 — In a new study published in Science, researchers from the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences at UC Irvine, in...
New Book by Professor Georg Striedter Explores the Inner Workings of Avian Behavior
The UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences is proud to share news of a new book co-authored by Professor Georg Striedter, titled Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis, now available from MIT Press. Written in collaboration with fellow avian...
Professor Andrea Tenner to Receive the 2025 Hans Müller-Eberhard Award
Congratulations to Andrea Tenner, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Neurobiology & Behavior, who has been selected to receive the 2025 Hans Müller-Eberhard Award from the...
Seven Dunlop School Faculty Receive 2024 Anti-Cancer Challenge Awards
The UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences is proud to announce that seven of its faculty members have been selected as 2024 awardees of the UC Irvine Anti-Cancer Challenge, a community-based initiative that raises funds to support promising cancer...
New Discovery Reveals Hidden DNA Element That Helps Switch On Genes from Afar
Assistant Professor Evgeny Kvon and graduate student Grace Bower. Irvine, Calif., July 2, 2025 — How do cells know which genes to activate, and when? For decades, scientists have puzzled over how distant parts of our DNA — sometimes millions of base pairs apart — can...
UCI MIND Researcher Awarded Larry L. Hillblom Foundation Grant to Study Immune System’s Role in Alzheimer’s Disease
The University of California, Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) is proud to announce that postdoctoral fellow Jean Paul Chadarevian, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation. The...
UC Irvine Postdoctoral Fellow Receives BrightFocus Grant to Explore New Avenues in Alzheimer’s Research
Ghazaleh Eskandari-Sedighi, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the BrightFocus Foundation’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research program. The two-year, $200,000 grant will support her...
UC Irvine Study Identifies Overlooked Immune Cell Pathway Into the Brain
CCR2+ (red, monocytes) cells enter the brain parenchyma from the velum interpositum (blue, laminin). CX3CR1+ cells (green) represent resident macrophages or microglia. Photo credit: Rocio Barahona, Lindsay Hohsfield, and Kim Green. Irvine, Calif., June 3, 2025 —...