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...

2022 Lauds & Laurels Dunlop School Recipients

2022 Lauds & Laurels Dunlop School Recipients

The University of California, Irvine Alumni Association will honor 23 accomplished individuals at the 2022 Lauds & Laurels ceremony on May 26. 3 Dunlop School members will be awarded.

How life works is his life’s work

How life works is his life’s work

UCI professor of developmental and cell biology seeks answers to how genes are regulated by Matt Coker, UCI | April 4, 2022 Ali Mortazavi’s research has been fundamental to understanding changes in gene expression in colon cancer, Lyme disease, breast cancer,...

Remembering Professor Krishna K. Tewari

Remembering Professor Krishna K. Tewari

In remembrance of Professor Tewari passing in 2017, former colleagues recently published an article about him and his accomplishments in Current Plant Biology.