Butterfly Blueprints

Butterfly Blueprints

Adriana Briscoe, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is featured on NOVA and PBS as she discusses how the scientific secrets of butterflies are inspiring technological innovations. Listen here.

Professor Katrine Whiteson: Chancellor’s Fellow

Professor Katrine Whiteson: Chancellor’s Fellow

Professor Katrine L. Whiteson of the department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry has been selected as a UCI Chancellor’s Fellow, a distinction awarded to tenured faculty whose body of scientific work supports a strong trajectory towards distinction. Professor...

Professor Christie Fowler: Chancellor’s Fellow

Professor Christie Fowler: Chancellor’s Fellow

Professor Christie Fowler of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior has been selected as a UCI Chancellor’s Fellow, a distinction awarded to tenured faculty whose body of scientific work supports a strong trajectory towards distinction. Professor Christie Fowler...

UCI Podcast: Dean Frank LaFerla on memory impairment over the holidays

UCI Podcast: Dean Frank LaFerla on memory impairment over the holidays

When people are getting together with loved ones over the holidays, how do they prepare themselves for interacting with a relative who has dementia resulting from Alzheimer's disease or another neurological condition? In this episode of the UCI Podcast, Frank LaFerla,...

UCI researchers monitor SARS-CoV-2 using wastewater-based epidemiology

UCI researchers monitor SARS-CoV-2 using wastewater-based epidemiology

Alternative viral detection methods have been critical in the fight against COVID-19, helping to reduce the burden on our healthcare system. In a new study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, University of California, Irvine researchers demonstrate...

Crucial New Research Questions Rise From Wildfire Ashes

Crucial New Research Questions Rise From Wildfire Ashes

Fires commanded headlines and wreaked destruction across California in
2020. Flames devastated the Silverado Canyon area of Orange County,
where multiple UCI scientists were conducting research. But from the ashes,
UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences experts are already developing vital new
lines of inquiry into land conservation, climate change and more. According
to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, more than
9,900 !res ravaged over 4.2 million acres of California land in 2020.
Dunlop School is home to the Center of Environmental Biology (CEB). Its worldrenowned faculty tackle questions across disciplines, including genomics,
comparative physiology, microbiology and climate change. Dunlop School scientists
have partnered with local institutions such as the Irvine Ranch Conservancy
to conduct conservation and restoration efforts throughout the county,
including Loma Ridge and Bee Canyon.