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…