Justin F. Shaffer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Developmental and Cell Biology and the recent awardee of the 2016 Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching. “Everything that I do as a teacher comes down to the fact that I want my students (and...
New Test May Help Identify Susceptibility to Alzheimer’s Disease
Professor Michael A. Yassa, Neurobiology and Behavior, is interested in uncovering the brain mechanisms that control learning and memory storage and how memories are altered during aging and disease. Recent work from his lab has led to the development of a new memory...
Shedding Light on the Structure of Alzheimer’s Toxic Protein
Professor Charles G. Glabe, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, conducts research on the structure and aggregation of amyloids in degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. In a recent study, spearheaded by his colleague Dr. Roland Riek, Professor Glabe assisted in...
A New Approach For Treating Skin Cancer
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer with high metastatic potential. Its survival rate is high if removed before metastasis, however, the survival rate drops sharply once signs of metastasis are found. Using new and innovative immune-therapeutic approaches, Professor...
Staff Spotlight: Heather Lane
Heather Lane, Assistant Manager of Building Management, has been with UCI for over 29 years. Heather’s first job at UCI was with fleet services. She worked there for 3 years before taking a position as a lock smith at the campus lock shop. After 18 years in the...
Can We Predict Death?
The groundbreaking work of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professors Laurence D. Mueller and Michael R. Rose was recently featured in an online BBC article. Professors Mueller and Rose have spent over two decades studying the biology of aging to shed light on the...
Climate Change’s Effect on Plant is Driven by Sex
Professor Kailen A. Mooney, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is an expert plant and environmental biologist who holds a joint appointment at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. Recent work from Professor Mooney’s laboratory, led by William K....
International Collaboration to Foster Innovation in Alzheimer’s Research
Several Biological Sciences School faculty members joined Dean Frank M. LaFerla and their distinguished colleagues at Tel-Aviv University for the 24th Tel-Aviv University Alzheimer’s Disease Conference in Israel. The conference represents a growing partnership...
First Graduates in Exercise Science
In 2014, the Biological Sciences School began a new major focused on the science of exercise, created in tandem with the Exercise Medicine and Sport Sciences Initiative. This year marked the first time students from the major walked across the Bren Center stage...
UCI, Queensland Scientists Identify New Switch to Boost Memory
The team, led by Timothy Bredy, UCI associate professor of neurobiology & behavior, discovered that chemical modifications that add methyl groups to RNA, a process known as methylation, could strengthen memory formation. Results appear June 22 in the Journal of...