Evgeny Kvon, Assistant Professor
Evgeny received his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and IMP working on Drosophila. He later became interested in Mouse genomics and continued his training at Berkeley Lab. Evgeny’s lab at UCI studies enhancers, regulatory…
Dr. Arthur Lander is the recipient of the 2020-2021 Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Distinguished University Service Award. This is one of the Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards and one of the Academic Senate’s highest honors!…
Each year the DCB Teaching Committee recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the educational mission while serving as a TA. This year, in addition to the school-wide award, the teaching committee wishes to…
This Spring Quarter our departmental Journal Club adapted to remote instruction by asking students to work in pairs to pick a recent paper that spoke to them and write two reviews – one for a…
Congratulations to our 2020 Graduate Honors Recipients- we are so proud of you!
Stephenson Chea (Calof Lab)- Edward Steinhaus Teaching Award
Katherine Williams (Mortazavi Lab)- William D. Redfield Graduate Fellowship Award
David Tatarakis (Schilling Lab)- Susan V. Bryant…
The Department of Developmental and Cell Biology wishes the warmest of congratulations to our 2020 graduates. We know how hard each of you has worked for your achievements and we would like to acknowledge you….
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new mathematical machine-intelligence-based technique that spatially delineates highly complicated cell-to-cell and gene-gene interactions. The powerful method could help with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases…
Professor David Gardiner was recently featured in Knowable Magazine’s special report on “building bodies.” Knowable Magazine is a California-based publication from Annual Reviews— a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science…
Assistant Professor Zeba Wunderlich has recently received a $1M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study non-coding DNA. Unlike coding DNA, which holds the directions for how to build proteins, non-coding DNA includes…
Professor Aimee Edinger and researcher Vaishali Jayashankar have discovered that macropinocytosis makes a previously unappreciated contribution to drug-resistance in solid tumors. Their work, published in Nature Communications, may help overcome an obstacle that is a…