When University of California, Irvine neurobiologist Carey Y.L. Huh, Ph.D., set her sights on discovering more about amblyopia, she brought personal insight to her quest. As a child, Huh was diagnosed with the condition, which is often called “lazy eye.”
From probing the ocean depths to deciphering human health mysteries, researchers across scientific disciplines are increasingly including microbiomes in their work. The Microbiome Centers Consortium has been launched by two University of California, Irvine School of Bioscience faculty members to advance growth in this life science field, increasingly recognized as relevant to many other disciplines and industrial applications.
Philanthropist on a mission to help others turns $150,000 into $20 million effort to fight disease at UCI MIND.
Congratulations to Marcelo Wood, Chair and Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior for being named AAAS Fellow. This honor is conferred for distinguished contributions to their fields.
Michael Yassa, Ph.D., Director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and
Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway.
A team of researchers from UCI and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark has published a new study that describes a unique survival mechanism for the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Published in the Journal of Bacteriology, the team discovered that P. aeruginosa send out a warning signal when exposed to a bacterial virus or antibiotic.
Congratulations to the 18 MSP undergraduate students who recently received best poster awards for their research at the 2019 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Anaheim. Presentations were given by over 5,000 participants from more...
Recap of Thomas Schilling, Ph.D. Dean’s Distinguished Lecture.
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Chair and Professor James Hicks has been named a 2019 Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. The Academy is based in San Francisco and consists of an aquarium, planetarium, rainforest, and natural history museum.