Congratulations to Dr. Star Lee on receiving the U.S. Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) for Graduate Fellowships for Training in Developmental and Cell Biology.
With this funding, her department…
Congratulations to Dr. Star Lee on receiving the National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (NSF IUSE) grant.
She is a Co-PI on the grant with 4 collaborators at different institutions. It’s a larger grant…
Dr. Pablo Lara-Gonzalez was a speaker at the 2022 C. elegans Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression meeting in Madison, WI that took place between 11-14th of August.
Dr. Lara-Gonzalez presented his lab’s work on…
Congratulations to Dr. Lee Bardwell and Dr. Jane Bardwell on their article on crosstalk between two cancer signaling pathways being published in Life Science Alliance.
Developmental and Cell Biology faculty member Dr. Scott Atwood also participated…
“There is a strong need for new, effective hair loss medicines, and naturally occurring compounds that are normally used by the dermal papilla cells present ideal next-generation candidates for treatment,” says Maksim Plikus, Ph.D., UCI…
Congratulations to CMB graduate student Yinyin Zhuang from Dr. Xiaoyu Shi lab for receiving an NSF-Simons fellowship. She became a graduate fellow of the NSF-Simons Center of Multiscale Cell Fate, for her ground-breaking work on…
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Thompson-Peer for receiving a 2022-23 Hellman Fellowship Award.
The Thompson-Peer Lab studies in vivo neuron regeneration in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. The long term research goal is to understand the cellular mechanisms of dendrite…
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyu Shi for receiving a 2022-23 Hellman Fellowship Award.
“This grant will empower a new direction in Shi lab that is “Uncover Cellular Mechanisms of Aging Using Super-Resolution Microscopy.” …
Congratulations to our 2022 Graduate Student Awardees for winning the following Awards:
Brendan T. Finicle won the highly prestigious Howard Schneiderman Fund Award and is mentored by Professor Aimee Edinger.
Rebecca K. Vargas won the highly prestigious…
Congratulations to Gayoung Seo for winning this spring’s Dean’ Early Career Research Excellence Award.
Dr. Seo has focused her research on the well-established tumor suppressor pathway, the Hippo Pathway, and its roles in stress response and…