The Biological Sciences School’s Bio Sci Student Council (BSC) was founded in 2012 as a leadership organization charged with unifying the School’s members, working actively to represent student needs to administration, and otherwise improving our undergraduates’...
Battle Rises in Florida Keys Over Fighting Mosquitoes With Mosquitoes
Feb 24, 2015
Florida Keys residents are facing a proposal to release the nation’s first genetically modified mosquitoes into their community. The mosquitos are hatched in a lab and pumped with synthetic DNA to try to combat two painful, mosquito-borne viral diseases, dengue and...
Biological Sciences School Professor and intercampus collaborators win $4.5 Million in new NIH funding
Feb 24, 2015
Professor Christopher C. Hughes, Chair of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and colleagues at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and University of California San Diego (UCSD), were recently awarded two collaborative grants from the National Institutes of...
Staff Spotlight: Larry R. Herman
Feb 23, 2015
Larry R. Herman has been at the Biological Sciences School since 1965, starting as a student and part of the first graduating class. Larry has served the Biological Sciences School for nearly 50 years, starting in the lab of Dr. Grover Stephens and eventually rose to...
Community Spotlight- Anna Walsh
Feb 23, 2015
Anna Walsh, Class of 1981 Anna Walsh joined the Biological Sciences School in 1976 as an undergraduate. With wide-eyed enthusiasm and excitement, she dedicated herself to the rigorous core curriculum and research program and quickly gained creative critical thinking...
Biological Sciences School Booth a Huge Hit at 50th Anniversary Homecoming
Feb 2, 2015
Chants of “Zot! Zot! Zot!” Could be heard loudly throughout Aldrich Park as more than 5,000 UC Irvine alumni celebrated the 50th Anniversary Homecoming in January. More than half the crowd stopped by the Biological Sciences School booth, including 500 Bio Sci alumni...
Non-Native Plants Widespread, Plenty of Space to Invade
Jan 23, 2015
The first comprehensive study to assess native vs. non-native plant distribution in the continental United States finds non-native plant species are much more widespread than natives. The study includes Professor Cascade Sorte, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and...
New Research Opportunities at San Joaquin Marsh Reserve
Jan 23, 2015
The UC Natural Reserve System's San Joaquin Marsh Reserve and the Orange County Water District recently partnered in installing three groundwater monitoring wells along the Marsh edge near the Arboretum on UCI’s North Campus. This effort is of huge benefit to the...
Facelift for Ecological Preserve Thanks to Students
Jan 23, 2015
Two undergraduate interns with the Biological Sciences School’s Center for Environmental Biology recently received a grant from UCI’s The Green Initiative Fund to develop interpretive signs and begin to develop a plan for use of UCI’s Ecological Preserve. Chris...
Skin Fat is a Newly Recognized Part of the Body’s Immune Response
Jan 23, 2015
Does having more skin fat help fight infections? Science may have found some answers. Professor Maksim Plikus, Developmental and Cell Biology, and his laboratory partners recently contributed to a new study that revealed skin fat to be part of the human body’s innate...