UCI study shows grafted limb cells acquire molecular ‘fingerprint’ of their new location
For full article: http://www.bio.uci.edu/2013/10/uci-study-shows-grafted-limb-cells-acquire-molecular-fingerprint-new-location/…
The 2.3 million dollar award over the next 5 years will support Dr. Mortazavi’s innovative research program that explores how DNA codes the precise activities of genes during development. His lab will create methods to measure…
The $3M award from NICHD will support three UCI faculty, Dr. Ken Cho and Dr. Ali Mortazavi in Developmental & Cell Biology and Dr. Eric Mjolsness in Computer Science, along with their colleagues Dr.Aaron Zorn…
We are proud to congratulate our graduate students who received Graduate Awards from the School of Biological Sciences for 2013:
Adam Tuttle (Schilling lab): Fine Science Tools Graduate Travel Award
Anne Phan (Gardiner lab): Edward Steinhaus Teaching…
The Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) Foundation recently designated the University of California, Irvine, as a Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Center of Excellence for a second five-year period. This designation recognizes continued excellence and outstanding achievement in…
Discovering that mouse hair has a circadian clock – a 24-hour cycle of growth followed by restorative repair – researchers suspect that hair loss in humans from toxic cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy might be minimized…
Mr. Ryan Schutte, a graduate student in the O’Dowd and Smith labs, is using fruit flies to understand how seizures are generated in Dravet Syndrome, a severe childhood epilepsy. Schutte in collaboration with a postdoctoral…
The Department congratulates Ms. Amanda Janesick, who is a graduate student in the Blumberg lab, for her Most Promising Future Faculty Member Award. Recipients were competitively selected by the Academic Senate Council on Student Experience…
The Department congratulates Ricardo Ramirez, who is a graduate student in the Mortazavi laboratory, for winning first place in the Cellular and Molecular Biology category of the AAAS poster competition. Ricardo’s poster on the “Dynamics…
This endowed chair recognizes Dr. Lander as one of the nation’s foremost scholars in the exciting new field of systems biology. Dr. Lander founded the UCI Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS) in 2001 and…