The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded $6 million to Neurobiology and Behavior & Psychiatry and Human Behavior Chancellor’s Professor Leslie Thompson.
New Insight into the Brain’s Timekeeper
Neurobiology and Behavior Professor Michael Yassa has published a new manuscript in the journal, Nature Neuroscience. In the study, led by Professor Yassa’s graduate student Maria Montchal, the research team identified areas of the brain that control how people precisely remember the correct order in which recent events have occurred.
Microbiology Society Recognizes Dunlop School Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Kathleen K. Treseder has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Minority Science Programs (MSP) Students Recognized for Outstanding Research
Congratulations to 16 of our MSP students who recently received best poster awards for their research at the 2018 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for MinorityStudents (ABRCMS).
In Rewarding Career, “My Best is Yet to Come” for Inaugural Dunlop School Ph.D.
When the opportunity arose in 1965 for David Edwards to join the Ph.D. program in the School of Biological Sciences at UCI, then the University of California’s newest campus, he seized it without a second thought. Five decades after receiving his degree, he says his...
Beyond Your Genes: Biology of Addiction
In the first Dean’s Distinguished Lecture of the 2018-2019 School year, Neurobiology and Behavior Chair Marcelo Wood told a packed audience a compelling story on the biology of addiction.
California Academy of Sciences Fellows
Congratulations to Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professors John C. Avise and Adriana Briscoe on being named Fellows of the California Academy of Sciences.
Light Exercise Can Enhance Memory Function
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research team assessed the effect of just 10 minutes of mild exercise on hippocampal memory function.
Short Acronym Brings Big Clout to Alzheimer’s Fight
A few letters could spell out a major strategy for combating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. They are iPSCs.
Of Mice and Men: Developing New Strategies to Defeat Alzheimer’s
The UCI research team is developing the next generation of models that will be used to investigate Alzheimer’s disease drugs, which are urgently needed, as more than 74 million people worldwide could be affected by 2030.