Professor Charles G. Glabe, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, conducts research on the structure and aggregation of amyloids in degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. In a recent study, spearheaded by his colleague Dr. Roland Riek, Professor Glabe assisted in...
A New Approach For Treating Skin Cancer
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer with high metastatic potential. Its survival rate is high if removed before metastasis, however, the survival rate drops sharply once signs of metastasis are found. Using new and innovative immune-therapeutic approaches, Professor...
Staff Spotlight: Heather Lane
Heather Lane, Assistant Manager of Building Management, has been with UCI for over 29 years. Heather’s first job at UCI was with fleet services. She worked there for 3 years before taking a position as a lock smith at the campus lock shop. After 18 years in the...
Can We Predict Death?
The groundbreaking work of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professors Laurence D. Mueller and Michael R. Rose was recently featured in an online BBC article. Professors Mueller and Rose have spent over two decades studying the biology of aging to shed light on the...
Climate Change’s Effect on Plant is Driven by Sex
Professor Kailen A. Mooney, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is an expert plant and environmental biologist who holds a joint appointment at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. Recent work from Professor Mooney’s laboratory, led by William K....
International Collaboration to Foster Innovation in Alzheimer’s Research
Several Biological Sciences School faculty members joined Dean Frank M. LaFerla and their distinguished colleagues at Tel-Aviv University for the 24th Tel-Aviv University Alzheimer’s Disease Conference in Israel. The conference represents a growing partnership...
First Graduates in Exercise Science
In 2014, the Biological Sciences School began a new major focused on the science of exercise, created in tandem with the Exercise Medicine and Sport Sciences Initiative. This year marked the first time students from the major walked across the Bren Center stage...
UCI, Queensland Scientists Identify New Switch to Boost Memory
The team, led by Timothy Bredy, UCI associate professor of neurobiology & behavior, discovered that chemical modifications that add methyl groups to RNA, a process known as methylation, could strengthen memory formation. Results appear June 22 in the Journal of...
Alumni in the News – Richard Yang
Richard Yang, Vice President of Corporate Sales & Connected Solutions at Dexcom Inc., obtained a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the Biological Sciences School in 1997 before pursuing a career in the medical device field. Before arriving at Dexcom, Mr. Yang...
Uncovering the Mysteries of Immunosuppression
Professor David A. Fruman, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, studies lymphocyte physiology for insights into immunological diseases and cancer. Recent work from his lab, led by graduate student Lomon So, has identified a new molecular mechanism to explain how the...