Dr. Grant MacGregor was awarded the 2017-2018 Dr. De Gallow Professor the Year Award!
We wish him a big congratulations!…
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…
Developmental and Cell Biology Assistant Professor Zeba Wunderlich was recently awarded a 2017 Hellman Fellowship Award. The Hellman Fellowships were established to provide support to promising junior faculty to help promote their career advancement. Dr….
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences Professor Maksim Plikus (Developmental and Cell Biology) and Mathematics Professor Qing Nie have shed light on the mechanisms that govern hair grown across the body. The two partnered to determine…
Several years ago when California started its’ great experiment in public funding of science and created the California Institute of Medicine, one of the first grants it awarded were training grants. At UCI, Developmental and…
Some of our great graduate students were awarded at the Graduate Honors Convocation on Wednesday, June 14. We are proud of them!
Bassem Shoucri (Blumberg Lab) was awarded the Fine Science Tools Graduate Travel Award
Heather Karner…