UC Irvine neurobiologist Leslie Thompson is one of two UC Irvine researchers named a 2013 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Thompson, a professor...

Inhibitors could form basis of new treatments for such diseases as MRSA, anthrax Irvine, Calif., Nov. 25, 2013 — Inhibitor compounds developed by UC Irvine structural biologists and Northwestern University chemists have been shown to bolster the ability of antibiotics...

Last week, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), announced the winners of the science education and outreach awards at Neuroscience 2013, SfN’s annual meeting and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health. Kasia M. Bieszczad, PhD, a...

Findings further creation of regenerative therapies for humans Contact: Andrea Burgess 949-824-6282 andrea.burgess@uci.edu Irvine, Calif., Oct. 24, 2013 — Cells triggering tissue regeneration that are taken from one limb and grafted onto another acquire the molecular...

Making a Foreign Country Feel Like Home Lester Ng ‘93 contributes to the Dunlop School International Students Program (ISP) to help foreign students thrive in the U.S. Lester Ng (‘93) clearly remembers the challenges of studying abroad. While in law school, he found...

The School of Biological Sciences is excited to welcome four new assistant professors and one lecturer with potential security of employment to our Fall 2013 faculty roster. With research interests ranging from ecology of plant traits and evolution of genomes to tumor...

A message from Howard Gillman, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, UC Irvine I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Brandon Gaut as Interim Dean of the School of Biological Sciences, effective November 1, 2013. Professor Gaut joined UCI in 1998 as...

To the School of Biological Sciences Community: This newsletter marks my last as the School of Biological Sciences Dean, as I will step down as faculty member and dean on October 31 after nearly 40 years at UCI.  It has been gratifying over the past seven years of my...

Dr. Susanne Rafelski was named a 2013 New Scholar in Aging by the Ellison Medical Foundation. Suanne is an Assistant Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology in the School of Biological Sciences. Her Ellison award will support research that pushes live-cell,...

Welcome back Anteaters and Bio Sci majors! With another exciting year ahead, we want to kick this year off with a feature on one of our own, who is heading into her senior year as the 2013 Leadership Scholar. Esther Kim is an Irvine native with aspirations of becoming...