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….
Professors Qing Nie and Maksim Plikus, in collaboration with their colleagues from Beijing, China, have gained new insights into the development of poorly understood malignant skin cancers collectively known as Paget’s disease. Their results have been…
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…
The Kvon Lab (https://www.kvonlab.org/) in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Irvine is seeking applicants for an NIH-funded Postdoctoral Scholar position. The successful candidate will…