Professor Yilin Hu (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry) has been working with the enzyme nitrogenase, a key enzyme that helps regulate global nitrogen, along with methods to utilize the enzyme to help produce renewable biofuels. Recently, Professor Hu and her team...
Study Quantifies Global Soil Carbon Loss Due to Global Warming
Professors Steven D. Allison and Kathleen K. Treseder (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) were part of a Yale-led global study appearing in the journal Nature that found that global warming will drive the loss of at least 55 trillion kilograms of carbon from the soil...
Faculty Recognition: The Most Eminent Psychologist of the Modern Era
Distinguished Professor James L. McGaugh (Neurobiology and Behavior), a founding professor and the first chair of the department of Neurobiology and Behavior and co-founder of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, has been recognized for his lifelong...
A Call to Public Action on the Salton Sea
Professor Timothy J. Bradley (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) and Professor David L. Feldman (from the School of Social Ecology) have recently written an opinion letter warning of the potential public health threats posed by the current legislation governing the...
Rapid Killing of Bed Bugs on Luggage Using Heat
In a recent study by Entomologist and Teaching Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Catherine Loudon discovered that a brief 6-minute exposure of soft-sided luggage to high temperatures, 158-167°F, was sufficient to kill all the bed bugs found on the...
Unraveling the Mechanisms Underlying Bacterial Competition
Professor Celia W. Goulding (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry) has solved the crystal structure of an activated toxin complex (CysK/CdiA-CTEC536) that is delivered by bacteria and used in contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI). Bacteria have evolved to produce...
New Summer Internships in Ecology and Evolution to Promote Diversity
In an effort to enhance diversity within University of California (UC) graduate programs, the UC system has partnered with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to create the UC-HBCU Initiative. Several outreach award programs have been created through...
Dean Welcomes the Class of 2020
This year’s welcome ceremony was held in the Bren Events Center and played host to one of the largest incoming classes in the School’s history. Close to 1300 new students packed the center’s floor, where they were introduced to Student Affairs Officer Jenna Bague,...
Faculty Spotlight: Christine Suetterlin, Ph.D.
Christine Suetterlin, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Developmental and Cell Biology. Her research focuses on the centrosome, a small organelle in mammalian cells that is dysregulated in most human cancers. Professor Suetterlin also examines how the wide-spread...
Student Spotlights: Lakshmi Vrittamani and Robert Dang
Lakshmi Vrittamani is entering her fourth year at the Biological Sciences School, majoring in Human Biology, with a minor in Management. She will be graduating at the end of the 2016-17 school year and plans to pursue a medical degree, and a master’s in business,...