Lessons From the Oldest-Old: The 90+ Study

On February 23rd, the School of Biological Sciences was honored to have Professor Claudia H. Kawas (Neurobiology and Behavior and Neurology) give an insightful lecture on her groundbreaking work studying the fastest growing segment of our population, people over 90...

What We Can Learn from the Sleeping Brain

What We Can Learn from the Sleeping Brain

          As part of our community outreach efforts, the School of Biological Sciences welcomed the new chair of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor Ruth Benca, to present her research on the sleeping brain at the 23rd UCI Distinguished...

Better Teaching Through Collaboration

Biological Sciences School Teaching Professors Brian Sato (Molecular biology and Biochemistry) and Justin Shaffer (Developmental and Cell Biology) recently organized the first ever regional meeting of the prestigious Society for the Advancement of Biology Education...

Professor Awarded New NIH Grant

Professor Ali Mortazavi (Developmental and Cell Biology) is the co-recipient of a National Institutes of Health grant given through its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project. An expert in human gene regulatory networks, Professor Mortazavi will use the grant to help...

Say Goodbye to Scars

In a study published in the prestigious journal, Science, Professor Maksim Plikus, (Developmental and Cell Biology), and his colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, discovered a natural regeneration process that stimulates scar-free skin repair, involving fat...

Innocent Bystander in the Fight Against Cancer

Emerging cancer treatments that target specific pathways in cancer cells have been thought to be the answer to the many side effects and long-term risks associated with older chemotherapy drugs. In a new review by Professor David A. Fruman (Molecular Biology and...

Organs on a Chip

By modeling normal and diseased human organs on a small scale, researchers believe they can greatly improve the discovery of drug compounds that can target specific tissue cells, including cancer cells. Professor Christopher C.W. Hughes (Molecular Biology and...

Staff Spotlight: Matthew ‘Matt’ Martinez

Matthew “Matt” Martinez is a UCI alumnus and the Director of Information Technology for the Biological Sciences School. Matt first arrived at UCI as an undergraduate in 1999.  After graduating with a Bachelor of Music from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts in 2003,...