What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

UCI Scientists Win $3.5 Million Grant for Bold Addiction Research Irvine, Calif., July 18, 2022 -The role of gene alterations resulting from childhood  adversity in adults addicted to heroin and a search for blood tests to predict addiction vulnerability are part...

Hellman Fellows for 2022-2023

Hellman Fellows for 2022-2023

The Hellman Fellowships Program, which recognizes promising assistant professors showing capacity for great distinction in their research, has honored two Dunlop School faculty for 2022-23. Developmental and Cell Biology Assistant Professor Xiaoyu Shi: Using...

Solving Algorithm ‘Amnesia’ Reveals Clues to How We Learn

Solving Algorithm ‘Amnesia’ Reveals Clues to How We Learn

Finding by UCI biologists could help combat cognitive impairments. Photo Credit: Manuella Yassa, CNLM A discovery about how algorithms can learn and retain information more efficiently offers potential insight into the brain’s ability to absorb new knowledge. The...

Immune Function Restored in Suppressed T Cells

Immune Function Restored in Suppressed T Cells

Professor Roberto Tinoco in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, who explores how the immune system can fight disease, recently published a paper with his lab that outlines a novel approach to activating dysfunctional T cells to fight skin cancer or...

Decades of Data Show Impact of Earlier Snowmelt on Plant Populations

Decades of Data Show Impact of Earlier Snowmelt on Plant Populations

Professor Diane Campbell in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, whose research focuses on understanding how evolution takes place in real time in nature, recently published a paper with her colleagues Mary Price, Nickolas Waser, Rebecca Irwin and...

Dunlop School Celebrates Guiding Principles

On May 3rd, students, faculty and staff gathered in the Dunlop School Starbucks Plaza to celebrate the launch of Dunlop School’s Cultural Guiding Principles. The event marked a new era for the school and featured a live DJ, games, desserts and a photobooth. Following...

Dean Frank LaFerla — Ellis Island Medal of Honor

The story of Frank M. LaFerla, PhD, Dean of the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences and a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, is one with which many Americans are familiar. Born to Italian immigrants and raised in...