Dr. Plikus was recently selected as the 2018 recipient of the recipient of the H.W. Mossman Award in Developmental Biology. This award recognizes investigators in the early stages of their careers who have made important contributions…
Successful tumor cells must develop strategies to grow even in the face of famine. Tumors do not have enough blood vessels to keep all the cancer cells well fed, and the blood vessels that are…
During development, a fertilized egg divides many, many times to create the cells that will form the adult animal. To create different cell types, e.g. neurons and muscle cells, each cell expresses different combinations of…
The Blumberg lab has recently published two papers in Endocrinology and Nature Communications:
In Shoucri et al, 2017 (Endocrinology 158:3109-3125) they found that the obesogen tributyltin (TBT) commits stem cells to become fat cells in part…
Chlamydia size matters
A collaboration between the Suetterlin, Tan and Enciso labs, which are located in UCI’s Schools of Biological Sciences, Medicine and Physical Sciences, respectively, as well as the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging…