Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Jennifer B.H. Martiny, Ph.D., has spent her career at UCI uncovering the mysteries of the microbial world beneath us, and sometimes within us. Her lab studies microbial diversity (which includes viruses, bacteria, and fungi)...
Student Spotlight – Christine Liu
Christine Liu is a third year student at the Biological Sciences School majoring in Immunology and Microbiology, with a minor in Film and Media Studies in the School of Humanities. Christine is exceling in her studies at the School and has plans to pursue a career in...
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...
Bio Sci Professors Receive Prestigious Recognition
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Professors David A. Fruman and Sheryl Tsai have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, serving 10 million individuals in more...
Recycling Greenhouse Gases
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...