News
- IIGB Researcher Receives $1.5M NIH Award (May 14, 2012)
IIGB researcher Frances Sladek received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to support a four-year research to study the tremendous variability in individuals' responses to drug treatments. - 2011-12 Faculty Research Lecturer: June 8, 2012 (May 14, 2012)
IIGB researcher Norman Ellstrand, considered the foremost expert on gene flow and arguably the most trusted scientist in the highly polarized debate over GM crops, will give the 60th Faculty Research Lecture at 3:30 p.m., June 8, 2012, in the Genomics Auditorium. - Career Day for Postdocs and Students: May 25, 2012! (May 4, 2012)
The second annual Career Day for IIGB graduate students and postdocs scheduled for May 25, 2012 will feature nine diverse speakers representing scientific careers steeped in academia (instrumentation facility managers, professors), industry (biotechnology, pest management, agronomy), intellectual property management, drug discovery and patent law. - IIGB Director Elected to National Academy of Sciences! (May 1, 2012)
IIGB/CEPCEB Director Natasha Raikhel was one of 84 newly elected members to the National Academy of Sciences, considered one of the highest and most competitive honors to be bestowed on a scientist. - IIGB Graduate Student Receives NSF GRFP Fellowship! (April 13, 2012)
IIGB/CEPCEB graduate student Nolan Ung was one of two life science students and one of seven UCR recipients of the 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. - $2.8M NIH Grant Studies Mosquito Reproduction (April 2, 2012)
A research team led by Alexander Raikhel, a distinguished professor of entomology and IIGB/CDVR researcher, received a five-year $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the molecular basis of hormonal regulation of mosquito reproduction. - IIGB Alumna Receives Genetics Award (March 28, 2012)
Stephanie Turner Chen, a UC Riverside alumna who worked in the lab of IIGB entomologist Anandasankar Ray, received the prestigious Larry Sandler Memorial Award given by the Genetics Society of America to the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation of the year in Drosophila genetics. - Elected to American Academy of Microbiology! (February 12, 2012)
An IIGB/CEPCEB Professor in the Plant Pathology & Microbiology department, Shou-wei Ding, was elected as an American Academy of Microbiology Fellow. The Academy, the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology, recognizes excellence, originality, and creativity in the microbiological sciences. - Protein Linked to Alzheimer's and Memory (February 12, 2012)
IIGB researcher Iryna Ethell, an associate professor of biomedical sciences and colleagues have identified a new link between a protein called beta-arrestin and short-term memory that could open new doors for the therapeutic treatment of neurological disorders, particularly Alzheimer's disease. - Two IIGB Researchers Named AAAS Fellows (January 2, 2012)
Two IIGB researchers have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Founded in 1848, the association includes 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. - A Step Closer to Drought-Tolerant Plants (January 2, 2012)
A team of IIGB plant cell biologists has discovered how to rewire a plant's cellular machinery to heighten its response to stress- a finding that can be used to engineer crops to give them a better shot at surviving and displaying increased yield under drought conditions. - CEPCEB Young Researchers Receive Awards! (January 2, 2012)
The ninth annual CEPCEB Special Award Ceremony was held on December 16, 2011 from 2-4pm in the Genomics Auditorium. A postdoctoral fellow, graduate student and undergraduate student were recognized by the Center for Plant Cell Biology for their outstanding research achievements in the 2010-11 period. - Annual CEPCEB Award Ceremony/Lecture: Dec. 16th! (December 11, 2011)
The ninth annual CEPCEB awards ceremony will take place on Friday, December 16, 2011, from 2-4pm in the Genomics Building Auditorium. The 2011 Noel T. Keen Lecturer is Rob Martienssen, a Professor and HHMI/GBMF Investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. - IIGB Toxicologist Honored by International Academy (November 29, 2011)
IIGB Toxicologist David Eastmond has been elected a fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini, an organization of international scholars who work towards solutions of occupational and environmental health problems around the world. - Chemical Genomics and the Endomembrane System (November 29, 2011)
IIGB Academic Administrator and Associate Research Plant Cell Biologist Glenn Hicks and colleagues have published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that discusses the endomembrance system's critical role in plant development and response to environmental stresses and disease. - IIGB Researcher Explains Attraction of Flies to Beer (November 17, 2011)
Research in Anupama Dahanukar's lab examined the feeding preference of the common fruit fly for beer and found that a receptor (a protein that serves as a gatekeeper) detects sweet-tasting glyercol made during fermentation and is instrumental in signaling a good taste for beer. - Research Reveals How Plants Survive Flooding (October 23, 2011)
Researchers in IIGB member Julia Bailey-Serres' lab and The University of Nottingham now report they have discovered how plants sense low oxygen levels to survive flooding - a finding that could lead eventually to the production of high-yielding, flood-tolerant crops, benefiting farmers, markets and consumers everywhere. - Research Reveals How Mosquitos Find Hosts (October 8, 2011)
Findings by two IIGB entomologists demonstrating how female Aedes aegypti - mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever and dengue - are attracted to plumes of carbon dioxide and skin odors could lead to more effective mosquito traps. - Five-Year NIH Award Studies Tick-Related Diseases (August 13, 2011)
IIGB/CDVR researcher and entomologist Joao Pedra has been awarded a a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how our immune system responds to rickettsial infection - infectious diseases transmitted by lice, fleas, ticks and mites. - IIGB/CEPCEB Member Elected Secretary of ASPB! (July 22, 2011)
IIGB/CEPCEB member and professor of genetics Julia Bailey-Serres was elected Secretary of the American Society of Plant Biologists, a professional scientific society with almost 5,000 plant scientists from the U.S. and 50 other nations. She will assume this position October 1, 2012. - Computational Model Studies Epileptic Seizures (June 30, 2011)
IIGB researchers have made a discovery in the lab that could help drug manufacturers develop new antiepileptic drugs and explore novel strategies for treating seizures associated with epilepsy - a disease affecting about two million Americans. - Recipient of FASEB 2012 Excellence in Science Award! (June 30, 2011)
IIGB/CEPCEB Researcher Susan Wessler is the recipient of the prestigious FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2012 Excellence in Science Award, one of the highest bestowed honors in science. - Undergraduate Science Learning Laboratory Opens! (June 29, 2011)
The grand opening of the innovative "Neil A. Campbell Science Learning Laboratory," named after a well-known biologist and UC Riverside alumnus, will take place on July 7, 2011 and provide experimental research experience to undergraduate students. - IIGB/CEPCEB Researcher Selected HHMI Investigator! (June 19, 2011)
Xuemei Chen, an IIGB/CEPCEB professor of plant cell and molecular biology, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (HHMI-GBMF) Investigator. - Findings Hamper Mosquitoes' Host-seeking Behavior (June 19, 2011)
IIGB Entomologists report in the June 2 issue of Nature (cover story) that they have identified odor molecules that hamper mosquitoes' host-seeking behavior, thus paving the way for the production of new insect repellants and avenues for controlling the spread of mosquito-borne diseases.