The Department congratulates Drs. Bruce Blumberg, Ken Cho, David Gardiner and Tom Schilling for their selection as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, for their…
Dr. Bode, Professor in Developmental and Cell Biology, and his colleagues reported in the 2009 paper that early development of Hydra, a simple fresh-water invertebrate, involves an organizer and activation of a Wnt signaling cascade….
Dr. Monuki, Associate Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology and his graduate student Momoko Watanabe and colleagues have created a new stem cell-derived cell type with unique promise for treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s….
Dr. Gross, Professor in Developmental and Cell biology and his colleagues have discovered that fats within cells store a class of proteins with potent antibacterial activity, revealing a previously unknown type of immune system response…
Dr. O’Dowd, HHMI Professor and Chair of Development and Cell Biology, and her colleagues at UC Irvine, in collaboration with Dr. Robert Reenan’s lab at Brown University placed a gene mutation that causes human fever-induced seizures…
Dr. Lander is the founder and director of the Center which is dedicated to systems biology research. The grant provides 5 years of support for the collaborative work of biologists, mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and computer…
We are pleased and proud to announce that Dr. Diane O’Dowd was awarded Professor of the Year in this year’s Excellence in Undergraduate Education Awards at UC Irvine. Dr. O’Dowd was selected by the Academic…