The Tom Angell Fellowship award is awarded annually and intended to honor Tom Angell’s contributions as the UCI Graduate Counselor to graduate student wellness and retention. This award is open to graduate students, faculty, and…
The interdisciplinary program project grant, “Tipping points in cancer” has been funded for five years by the National Cancer Institute and awarded to John Lowengrub, Devon Lawson, and Arthur Lander. The grant starts today, and…
Congratulations to Sydney Prange, a graduate student in the lab of Prof. Katie Thompson-Peer. Sydney Prange earned second place in the UCI Grad Slam, a competition that showcases and awards the best three-minute research presentations…
Abstract:
Conventionally, the size, shape, and biomechanics of cartilages are determined by their voluminous extracellular matrix. By contrast, we found that multiple murine cartilages consist of lipid-filled cells called lipochondrocytes. Despite resembling adipocytes, lipochondrocytes were molecularly…
Olivier Cinquin has published a new paper in Briefings in Bioinformatics on the pitfalls and possibilities of using large language models like ChatGPT to help with bioinformatic analysis.
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) leverage factual knowledge from pretraining….
Congratulations to Dr. Pablo Lara-Gonzalez and Dr. Lee Bardwell!
The Lara-Gonzalez lab, in collaboration with the Bardwell lab, recently published amanuscript titled “Cyclin B3 is a dominant fast-acting cyclin that drives rapid earlyembryonic divisions” in…
Laurence Seabrook and Melissa Campos, from Lauren Albrecht’s lab, recently published a paper, “Methylarginine targeting chimeras for lysosomal degradation of intracellular proteins”.
Abstract:
A paradigm shift in drug development is the discovery of small molecules that harness…
Congrats to Mia Brantley! The Rose Hills Foundation Science and Engineering Fellowship is intended to recognize and reward our most meritorious graduate students who are pursuing a Ph.D. orMaster’s degree in the life or natural…
Vini Duarte from Katherine Thompson-Peer’s lab recently had a paper, “Calcium plays an essential role in early-stage dendrite injury detection and regeneration”, published!
Abstract: Dendrites are injured in a variety of clinical conditions such as traumatic…
The Hellman Fellowships are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 85 UC Irvine Society of Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund was established here. Fangyuan Ding,…
Professor Nie is a global expert in computational and systems biology. His research focuses on using mathematics, computing, and artificial intelligence methods to model complex biological systems and analyze large biological datasets. Professor Nie is…
In the heart of Southern California, a groundbreaking collaboration is transforming the landscape of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. The SoCal BioEYES program, an initiative led by graduate students at the University of…
Congratulations to Kathleen Leon for receiving the LEAD achievement award last Thursday!
The Latino Excellence and Achievement Awards Dinner (LEAD) honors key leaders, graduate students, staff and faculty who support and champion student success and…
Isha Bhakta, an undergraduate in Dr. Katherine Thompson-Peer’s lab, received the Carol Becker McGaugh Award, which is awarded to undergraduate students completing their 3rd year for outstanding research in the neurobiology of learning and memory.
This…
Vini Duarte, from Dr. Katherine Thompson Peer’s Lab, received the Jared Roberts Award, presented to an outstanding graduate student in neuroscience.
The Jared Roberts Award is given out to assist students in attending the annual…
Congratulations to the Dr. Xiaoyu Shi for receiving the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award offered by the NSF, highlighting her exceptional capabilities and the groundbreaking research being conducted.
Dr. Shi’s project focuses on overcoming the…
Sydney Prange from Dr. Katherine Thompson-Peer Lab was selected for the Rose Hills graduate student fellowship.
The Rose Hills Foundation Fellowship is intended to recognize and reward our most meritorious graduate students who are pursuing a…
Dr. Bruce Blumberg received a 5-year multi-PI award totaling $3.2 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences together with Prof. Toshi Shioda from Harvard University.
This research aims to identify the molecular mechanisms…
Dr. Cho has been serving as the president of the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) since July 2023.
His role involves steering SDB’s strategic direction, governance, and advancing developmental biology, necessitating collaboration and advocacy.
Dr. Cho…
Congratulations to Raquel Bowman, a 2nd year graduate student in Professor Dae Seok Eom’s lab on getting a paper published in Cell Reports this month as a first author….
Congratulations to Dr. Pablo Lara-Gonzalez and his lab on being awarded the NIH MIRA R35 grant to study how the cell division machinery is regulated during development.
The grant aims to address how cells integrate diverse…
Dr. Kvon gave an interview which was published in Development magazine as part of “Transitions in development” series.
In this series of interviews, principal investigators (PIs) within the first five or so years of establishing their…
In recognition of their help with SoCal BioEYEs, graduate student Olga Jaime received a Latino Excellence and Achievement Award.
Graduate student Kathleen Leon received the Graduate Fellowship Award at the Graduate Honors Gala.
Graduate Student Tori Tucker…
Sophia Tran, a Bio199 student in the Parsons Lab was chosen by the Honors Committee to receive the Robert Ernst Prize in the Biological Sciences for her 2022-2023 Excellence in Research project.
Sophia assisted a…
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyu Shi for receiving Proof of Product (PoP) grant to accelerate the translation of her lab’s GO3D multiomics single cell analysis technology on May 2nd. The awarded project is “single-cell spatial proteomics…
Congratulations to the laboratories of Dr. Lee Bardwell and Dr. David Fruman on publishing a new paper on Portland Press Biochemical Journal.
Jane Bardwell is the lead author on the paper. Madhuri Paul, a graduate student…
Congratulations to Professors Peter Donovan and Christie Fowler for recently obtaining further funding for their program entitled “Molecular Neuroscience and Underserved Populations“ in response to a call by UC Irvine Graduate Division to diversify doctoral…
Congratulations to Professors Grant MacGregor and Ali Mortazavi along with their UC Irvine team on their paper being published on Alzheimer’s Disease.
Link to the paper: https://molecularneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13024-023-00598-4…
Congratulations to Prof. Aimee Edinger for being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Edinger, UC Irvine Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow, in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, has…
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Teaching Adrienne Williams who was selected as a Fellow of the UC Irvine Faculty Academy for Teaching Excellence. Fellows of the Academy were chosen for their strong commitment to student…
Congratulations to Rebecca Lim for being awarded ACS postdoctoral fellowship.
Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) support new investigators in research training programs to to position them for independent careers in cancer research.
Rebecca works in Dr. Aimee Edinger’s…
Congratulations to Brendan Finicle who defended his thesis and is taking a Scientist position at Novartis in San Diego starting in February. Brendan works in Dr. Aimee Edinger’s lab….
Congratulations to Dr. Aimee Edinger for her paper being published in Nucleic Acids Research demonstrating that a small molecule can enhance antisense activity in multiple tissues.
Dr. Edinger was also elected as a AAAS fellow. AAAS…
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyu Shi from the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology for receiving a $400,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Advancing Imaging Through Collaborative Projects program.
Dr. Shi and her Co-PIs received the…
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., UC…
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…
Congratulations to Sydney Prange to receive the Norman Weinberger Award for her work on Dendrite regeneration: a potential avenue to prevent neurodegeneration.
Sydney is a graduate student for Dr. Katherine Thompson-Peer’s lab….
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Thompson-Peer for receiving the inaugural 2022 Exceptional Mentor Award on behalf of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
The Exceptional Mentor Award recognizes a CNLM Fellow who demonstrates a track record of…
Congratulations to Sydney Prange for receiving a a predoctoral raining fellowship award from the CIRM Scholars Comprehensive Training Program.
This program focuses on developing leaders in the fields of stem cells, gene therapy, and regenerative medicine.
Sydney…
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyu Shi and her team on being selected by the Journal of Cell Biology for the Women in Science Day Campaign.
“The Shi lab develops and uses novel super-resolution microscopy and spatial omics…
Dr. Ali Mortazvi’s article “Hydra DNA Reveals There’s More Than One Way to Regrow a Head” was published in the New York Times.
Dr. Mortazavi and his colleagues have taken a big step in understanding how…
Congratulations to Star Lee on receiving the UC Irvine Inclusive Excellence Teaching Award. This award was determined by student nominations, and awardees will be honored at the Spring 2022 Celebration of Teaching. The purpose of…
Congratulations to Rebecca Vargas for receiving the Norton B. Gilula Travel Award. Rebecca is a graduate student in Professor Wenqi Wang’s lab.
The Norton B. Gilula Travel Award is a prestigious award presented only to high…
Experts from UC Irvine and the University of Michigan will collaborate to generate a comprehensive skin cell atlas to help explain ancestral differences in skin biology and pathology as part of the worldwide Human Cell…
Skin, the human body’s largest organ, is incredibly complex. Even a simple visual examination of the scalp, face, chest, hands or feet will reveal the subtle differences in skin attributes, depending on the location, which…
Eom lab is awarded an NIH MIRA R35 grant to study the cellular and molecular basis of long-distance cell-cell signaling via novel long cellular protrusions.
With this grant, Eom lab will explore mechanistic aspects of…
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 Steinhaus TA award honoring Tori Tucker’s achievements,…
Nerve cells can be injured by a variety of diseases and conditions. Some types of injury damage the part of the cell known as dendrites, which are the structures in a nerve cell that act…
For the second year running, Spring Journal Club for Dev. Cell. graduate students was adapted to deal with social distancing. Students were (virtually) paired together and asked to find a recent publication that interested them….
Congratulations to Tori Tucker (Mike Parson’s Lab) who was awarded the Graduate Dean’s Excellence Fellowship this spring. This award came with $5000!
Ms. Tucker studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms driving β-cell neogenesis during regeneration…
Congratulations to Professor Aimee Edinger on being named the UC Irvine Dr. De Gallow Professor of the Year. This prestigious honor was bestowed to Professor Edinger as part of the 2021 Celebration of Teaching. The…
Assistant Professor Zeba Wunderlich was recently honored at the 2021 Celebration of Teaching with the Learning Experience Design and Online Teaching award.
Recipients are selected by members of the Academic Senate Council on Student Experience and…
Dr. Qing Nie was elected as one of 28 SIAM Fellows for The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Class of 2021. The SIAM Fellows Program recognizes outstanding contributions made by its members, and…
Congratulations to Vaishali Jayashankar for receiving the Dean’s Early Career Research Excellence Award. Dr. Jayashankar is a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Aimee Edinger’s lab. Her primary research investigates the role of macropinocytosis in tumor metabolism.
Her recently published work, has…
An image taken by Postdoctoral Scholar, Sean Kuan, has been selected as the cover art for the journal, Nature Materials. The image was originally published as part of a co-authored article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-00844-w
This is very exciting…
https://leo-foundation.org/en/2021/03/02/dkk-17-million-awarded-to-five-international-skin-research-projects/
https://twitter.com/leofondet/status/1366695800634568708…
Former Bardwell Lab grad student Leonila Lagunes has been awarded the prestigious UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship! Read more HERE.
As a postdoctoral fellow in the Eric Deeds’ lab at UCLA, Dr Lagunes focuses on understanding the…
In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers introduce CellChat, a computational platform that enables the decoding of signaling molecules that transmit information and commands between the cells that come together to form biological…
Assistant Professor of Teaching Adrienne Williams has published an article in Neuroscience Letters entitled “Seven practical strategies to add active learning to a science lecture” with Professor Diane O’Dowd. This is a mini-review of evidence-based…
Congratulations to Dr. Lee Bardwell, who has received a 2020 Inclusive Excellence Spirit Award! The award will be used to set up a seminar exchange involving UC Irvine faculty and faculty of historically black colleges…
Developmental and Cell Biology Professor Thomas Schilling and Developmental and Cell Biology & Mathematics Professor Qing Nie have been awarded a new grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate the mechanisms that drive…
A recent collaboration between Assistant Professor Scott Atwood and Professor Qing Nie has resulted in the discovery of new subpopulations of stem cells vital to skin growth and maintenance. The Developmental and Cell Biology faculty…
Developmental and Cellular Biology Professor Christine Suetterlin is the Primary Investigator on a new R01 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Together with Professor…
New research has found that lipid droplets in mammals can play a central role in the innate immune response. The research, which is a collaborative effort by Developmental and Cell Biology Professor Steven Gross and…
The development of organisms is a complex process that continues to drive intrigue and exploration. In a new paper from Developmental and Cell Biology Assistant Professor Zeba Wunderlich and graduate student Rachel Waymack, in collaboration…
Melanoma is a life-threatening skin cancer that spreads quickly to other organs if not treated early. A new discovery by University of California, Irvine biologists shatters traditional beliefs about how melanomas develop, providing new insights…
Congratulations to Karissa Jade Muñoz for receiving the Rose Hills Foundation Fellowship, which recognizes students in STEM fields who have demonstrated academic excellence, scientific accomplishments, and strong leadership qualities. Karissa is a 5th year PhD student jointly supervised by…
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….