Professor Matthew Blurton-Jones, Neurobiology and Behavior and Alzheimer’s disease researcher, will receive $1.15 million to improve the ability to generate and study microglia from human pluripotent stem cells. Microglia serve as the primary immune cells within the...

Biological Sciences School Professors Peter Donovan and Leslie Thompson, Neurobiology and Behavior, together with colleague Professor Ping Wang, School of Medicine, recently launched a workshop to provide...

Donald Bren Professor Arthur Lander, Developmental and Cell Biology, was recently asked to speak at the “What Matters to Me and Why” lunchtime series. Professor Lander, a recognized leader in the emerging field of systems biology, spoke about his passion for research...

The Biological Sciences School’s Bio Sci Student Council (BSC) was founded in 2012 as a leadership organization charged with unifying the School’s members, working actively to represent student needs to administration, and otherwise improving our undergraduates’...

Florida Keys residents are facing a proposal to release the nation’s first genetically modified mosquitoes into their community. The mosquitos are hatched in a lab and pumped with synthetic DNA to try to combat two painful, mosquito-borne viral diseases, dengue and...

Professor Christopher C. Hughes, Chair of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and colleagues at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and University of California San Diego (UCSD), were recently awarded two collaborative grants from the National Institutes of...

Larry R. Herman has been at the Biological Sciences School since 1965, starting as a student and part of the first graduating class. Larry has served the Biological Sciences School for nearly 50 years, starting in the lab of Dr. Grover Stephens and eventually rose to...

Anna Walsh, Class of 1981 Anna Walsh joined the Biological Sciences School in 1976 as an undergraduate. With wide-eyed enthusiasm and excitement, she dedicated herself to the rigorous core curriculum and research program and quickly gained creative critical thinking...

Chants of “Zot! Zot! Zot!” Could be heard loudly throughout Aldrich Park as more than 5,000 UC Irvine alumni celebrated the 50th Anniversary Homecoming in January. More than half the crowd stopped by the Biological Sciences School booth, including 500 Bio Sci alumni...

The first comprehensive study to assess native vs. non-native plant distribution in the continental United States finds non-native plant species are much more widespread than natives. The study includes Professor Cascade Sorte, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and...