UC Irvine’s Department of Systems Biology explores how life’s interconnected systems lead to healthier people, stronger science and new discoveries.
As Snowpack Shrinks, Sierra Nevada Mountain Ponds Undergo Dramatic Change
Christine Bonadonna sampling invertebrates at a pond near Yosemite National Park. Photo credit: Celia Symons Irvine, Calif., July 14, 2026 — On a summer afternoon in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain pond can look calm and still, reflecting granite peaks and alpine sky....
A new era of precision depression treatment
New study points to biomarker-guided care to improve antidepressant response rates and reduce trial-and-error prescribing.
Stingray Defenses Reveal the Hidden Engineering of Survival
A diversity of stingray defensive spines surrounds a bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma), illustrating variation in spine shape and serration morphology among species. Photo credit: Christopher Martinez. Irvine, Calif., July 1, 2026 — Stingrays are instantly...
As Oceans Warm, UCI Researchers Find Clues to Which Species Shifts Could Matter Most
First author Ryan Beshai, left, and Professor Cascade Sorte, right, led a new study that offers a framework for predicting how climate-driven species shifts may affect marine ecosystems. Irvine, Calif., June 29, 2026 — As oceans warm, marine life is on the move. Fish,...
Students Bring Evolution to Life Through Creativity, Exploration and Curiosity
Student artwork from BIO SCI 8 includes an ammonite drawing by Diana G. Hernandez Rodriguez, left, and a Tiktaalik line-and-ink drawing by Kimberly Ng, right. In Distinguished Professor Brandon Gaut’s BIO SCI 8 course, “Evolution in the Modern World,” students are...
Two Dunlop School Students Named 2026 Goldwater Scholars
Steve Salinas, left, and Anny Wang, right, undergraduate students in the Dunlop School, were named 2026 Goldwater Scholars in recognition of their outstanding promise as future research leaders. Two undergraduate students from the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of...
Postdoctoral fellow awarded grant to study iPSC-microglia transplantation for the treatment of FTD-GRN
Jean Paul Chadarevian, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Blurton-Jones Lab at UCI MIND. Jean Paul Chadarevian, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Blurton-Jones Lab at UCI MIND, has been awarded the two-year, $120,000 Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowship from The...
UCI Postdoctoral Fellow Zhuoxin Chen Awarded NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Zhuoxin Chen, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Assistant Professor Evgeny Kvon at the Department of Developmental & Cell Biology at the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR).
UC Irvine Researchers Receive Support Through W. M. Keck Foundation Bridge Funding Initiative
A research team in the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences has been selected to receive support through the W. M. Keck Foundation Bridge Funding Initiative, a program designed to provide continuity for early-career scientists and their trainees...