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Raffi V. Aroian

  1. An Innovative Approach to Halting Roundworm Infections (11/12)
  2. Synergy Between Two Types of De-worming Drugs (03/10)
  3. Bt Protein Effective Against Parasitic Roundworm (02/10)
  4. Stemming Infections of Parasitic Roundworms (08/09)
  5. Bt Toxin Treats Parasites (09/06)
  6. Bt Toxin Defense (7/04)
  7. Bt Toxin Uses (2/03)
  8. Embryo Partitioning (1/02)
  9. Bt Toxin Resistance (8/01)
  10. Achievement Honors (5/01)
  11. Embryonic Development (4/01)
  12. Achievement Honors (11/00)
  13. Seed Dispersal Genes (4/00)

Darwin K. Berg

  1. Named AAAS Fellow (12/08)

Timothy Baker

  1. Tim Baker Honored with Microscopy Society of America 2012 Distinguished Scientist Award (08/12)
  2. DNA Knot Keeps Viral Genes Tightly Corked (06/08)

Ethan Bier

  1. Getting to the Heart of Down Syndrome (11/11)
  2. Fruit Flies Reveal Secrets of How Anthrax Kills (10/10)
  3. Evolution of Nervous System (09/06)
  4. Multiplex RNA labeling (5/05)
  5. Multiplex RNA labeling (10/04)
  6. Gene Visualization (8/04)
  7. Differentiation Triggers (1/02)
  8. Disease Genes (6/01)
  9. Beckman Scholars (4/00)

Steve Briggs

  1. Lowering Tumor Risk in Stem Cell Therapies (07/10)
  2. Mechanisms of How Immune Cells Move (05/10)
  3. Scientists and Investors Mingle at Summit (04/09)
  4. Algae is the Answer (09/08)
  5. Eureka! Undergrad Summer Research Program (09/08)
  6. UCSD Organizes Biofuels Conference (02/08)
  7. Stephen Briggs Named to AAAS (10/07)
  8. Igert Training Grant Awarded (8/05)

Stuart Brody

  1. UC San Diego Establishes Center for Chronobiology (03/10)

Madeline Butler

  1. California - A Sunny State of Opportunities (05/06)

Lin Chao

  1. Do Bacteria Age? (10/11)
  2. Protein Receptor for Carbonation Taste (10/09)
  3. Eng Endowment Supports Wilderness Studies (10/07)

Maarten J. Chrispeels

  1. Bringing Graduate Research to High School Classrooms (06/10)
  2. Bio Grad Students Bring Research into Classrooms (07/08)
  3. UCSD Organizes Biofuels Conference (02/08)
  4. Named an Inaugural Fellow of the ASPB (09/07)
  5. Partnership to boost Chile's biotech science (09/07)
  6. "Natural" Farming? (6/04)
  7. Named AAAS Fellow (10/03)

Elsa Cleland

  1. 2010 Hellman Faculty Fellows (05/10)
  2. Climate Change and Southern California Ecosystems (04/09)

Eva-Maria Schoetz Collins

  1. 2013 Sloan Research Fellow (03/13)

Nigel Crawford

  1. Faculty Excellence Award (04/09)

Michael David

  1. Discovery May Shed Light on Why Some HIV-Positive Patients Have More Virus (09/12)
  2. Anti-inflammatory Drugs and Cancer (06/09)
  3. New Antiviral Mechanism in Mammals (10/07)
  4. Anthrax Immunology (1/04)

Russell Doolittle

  1. Charles Darwin Bicentennial (2/09)
  2. NAS John J. Carty Award (1/06)

Richard A. Firtel

  1. Mechanisms of How Immune Cells Move (05/10)
  2. Protein Compass Guides Amoebas Toward Their Prey (10/08)
  3. Cell Motility Regulation (08/07)
  4. Cell Steering (5/02)

Anirvan Ghosh

  1. Brain Connection Genes (1/04)

Yuki Goda

  1. Memory Formation (11/01)
  2. Achievement Honors (6/00)

James Golden

  1. In Love with Research, and with Each Other (02/10)

Susan Golden

  1. Elected to National Academy of Sciences (04/10)
  2. Study Finds Bacteria Divide Like Clockwork (03/10)
  3. UC San Diego Establishes Center for Chronobiology (03/10)
  4. How Biological Clock Controls Cell Division in Bacteria (02/10)
  5. In Love with Research, and with Each Other (02/10)
  6. Regional Partnership to Develop Algal Biofuels (04/09)

Ananda Goldrath

  1. Professors Goldrath and Traver Receive Funding from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (09/12)
  2. Ananda Goldrath named Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar (12/11)
  3. Named 2007 Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences (06/07)

Jeff Hasty

  1. Living ‘Neon Signs’, Millions of Glowing Bacteria (12/11)
  2. Glowing, Blinking Bacteria Reveal How Cells Synchronize Biological Clocks (09/11)
  3. Researchers Synchronize Blinking “Genetic Clocks” (01/10)

David A. Holway

  1. Fire Ants’ Spread Aided by Partnership With Other Insects (12/11)
  2. Faculty Director of UCSD's Natural Reserve System (01/10)
  3. Invasive Wasps' Ecological Harm (07/09)
  4. Ecology of San Diego's Ant "Super Colony" (2/08)
  5. Argentine Ants Eating Across California (12/07)
  6. Argentine Ant Diet Shifts (12/07)
  7. Invasive Ant Territoriality (11/06)
  8. Water Culprit In Ant Invasions (03/06)
  9. Success of Ant Invasions (11/05)
  10. Ants in San Diego (7/03)
  11. Genetic Diversity of Ants (5/00)

Yishi Jin

  1. Named to Association for the Advancement of Science (01/11)
  2. Essential protein for axon regrowth in animal model (09/09)

Tracy Johnson

  1. Professors Johnson and Spitzer honored with 2013 Faculty Excellence Awards (03/13)
  2. Presidential Award (07/06)

Suckjoon Jun

  1. Named Allen Young Investigator (03/13)

James T. Kadonaga

  1. Biologists' Discovery May Force Revision of Biology Textbooks (08/11)
  2. Second Motor Protein That Rewinds DNA (11/10)
  3. Motor Protein Rewinds DNA (10/08)

Amy Kiger

  1. 2010 Hellman Faculty Fellows (05/10)
  2. The Scientist's Scientist to Watch (05/07)
  3. Named Kimmel Scholar (05/06)

Joshua R. Kohn

  1. Non-self-fertilizing Flowers Diversify Faster (10/10)
  2. Eng Endowment Supports Wilderness Studies (10/07)
  3. Evolution of Monkeyflowers (09/06)
  4. One-Way Evolution (1/06)

Carolyn Kurle

  1. 2012-2013 Hellman Faculty Fellow (05/12)

William F. Loomis

  1. Biologist Bill Loomis on Life As It Is (07/08)
  2. Biocomplexity Grant (10/00)

Li-Fan Lu

  1. Li-Fan Lu and Jose Pruneda-Paz named Hellman Faculty Fellows (05/13)

M - Z

Eduardo Macagno

  1. Partnership to boost Chile's biotech science (09/07)
  2. Innovation on both sides of the border (06/06)
  3. $2.1 Million Science Education Grant (06/06)
  4. California's Educational Divide (11/04)
  5. Technology Award (4/05)
  6. Mysteries of the Brain (10/04)
  7. Academy of Sciences (4/04)
  8. Diversity in Science (8/03)
  9. UCSD Honors Dr. Crick (7/03)
  10. Award to Dr. Crick (6/03)
  11. Architecture (5/03)
  12. Prof. Friedkin, 84, dies (10/02)
  13. Dean, Div. of Biology (11/00)

Roberto Malinow

  1. Elected to National Academy of Sciences (5/12)

Theresa Markow

  1. Students travel to Mexico for Advanced Ecology Course (09/10)
  2. Students Travel to Panama for Research Expedition (08/09)
  3. Charles Darwin Bicentennial (2/09)
  4. Named AAAS Fellow (12/08)
  5. Fruits of the fly (12/08)
  6. Flies May Reveal Evolutionary Step to Live Birth (11/08)

Stephen Mayfield

  1. Quest for Edible Malarial Vaccine Leads to Other Potential Medical Uses for Algae (04/13)
  2. UC San Diego Biologists Produce Rainbow-Colored Algae (03/13)
  3. Course Seeks to Educate World about Sustainable Food and Energy Issues (02/13)
  4. Biologists Engineer Algae to Make Complex Anti-Cancer ‘Designer’ Drug (12/12)
  5. Bioengineered Marine Algae Expands Environments Where Biofuels Can Be Produced (11/12)
  6. Biofuels Research Continues Rapid Growth (01/12)
  7. Biologists Use Algae-Produced Protein in Global Health Initiative (11/11)
  8. New Jobs in State's Green Economy (09/11)
  9. $9 Million for Algal Biofuels Research (06/10)
  10. Potential of Algae to Produce Human Therapeutics (03/10)
  11. Expert on Genetics of Algae Joins UC San Diego (11/09)

William McGinnis

  1. Discovery of Wound-Healing Genes in Flies Could Mitigate Human Skin Ailments (04/13)
  2. Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (04/10)
  3. Charles Darwin Bicentennial (2/09)
  4. Second “Evolution Matters” Lecture (01/08)
  5. Evolution Matters Public Lecture (11/07)
  6. Multiplex RNA labeling (5/05)
  7. Multiplex RNA labeling (10/04)
  8. Gene Visualization (8/04)
  9. Body Evolution (2/02)

Mauricio Montal

  1. Biophysical Society Fellow (6/03)

Cornelis Murre

  1. First 3-D Image of Antibody Gene (04/08)

James Nieh

  1. Bringing Graduate Research to High School Classrooms (06/10)
  2. ‘Stop’ Signal in Honey Bee Communication (02/10)
  3. Bees Can Learn Differences in Food’s Temperature (11/09)
  4. Academic Senate Teaching Awards (05/09)
  5. Charles Darwin Bicentennial (2/09)
  6. Bees Heat up, Fly Faster with Protein-Rich Food (07/08)
  7. Bee Espionage (6/04)
  8. Bee Communication (9/03)

Amy Pasquinelli

  1. Researchers Identify microRNA Targets in C. elegans (01/10)
  2. Keck Young Scholar Award (07/06)

Gentry Patrick

  1. 2010 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards (02/11)
  2. Named Hellman Fellow (07/08)
  3. Ray Thomas Edwards Award (10/05)

Kit Pogliano

  1. Fellow in American Academy of Microbiology (02/09)
  2. Nationwide Science Education Program (12/07)
  3. The Scientists: Imaging Bacterial Protein (06/07)
  4. Fly Protein Helps Heal (6/03)

James W. Posakony

  1. Jim Posakony Named 2011 AAAS Fellow (12/11)
  2. Fly's Clues to Hearing (3/00)

Paul A. Price

  1. Species Divergence (1/01)

Jose Pruneda-Paz

  1. Li-Fan Lu and Jose Pruneda-Paz named Hellman Faculty Fellows (05/13)

Scott Rifkin

  1. Genes, Environment, or Chance? (02/10)

Kaustuv Roy

  1. Extinction Runs in the Family (08/09)
  2. Charles Darwin Bicentennial (2/09)
  3. Tropics are the Source of Most New Species (10/06)
  4. Evolution of Size (1/06)
  5. Bee Communication (9/03)
  6. Genetic Diversity (5/01)

Massimo Scanziani

  1. How the brain represents both faint and intense signals (11/09)
  2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (05/08)

Immo E. Scheffler

  1. Named AAAS Fellow (12/08)
  2. UMDF Sage Fellowship (9/03)

Julian I. Schroeder

  1. New Plant Protein Discoveries Could Ease Global Food and Fuel Demands (05/13)
  2. 2010 Cozzarelli Prize (03/11)
  3. Genes That Control Toxic Metal Accumulation (11/10)
  4. One of Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year (01/10)
  5. Plants' Carbon Dioxide Response Informs Water-wise Crops (12/09)
  6. How plants survive drought (10/09)
  7. Making Plants That Sip, Not Gulp, Water (07/09)
  8. Drought-Resistant Crops (05/09)
  9. Gene that Controls Ozone Resistance (02/08)
  10. Plant Abstinence by Mutual Consent (12/07)
  11. AAAS Fellows in Biological Sciences (11/06)
  12. Igert Training Grant Awarded (8/05)
  13. Bioremediation Steps (8/03)
  14. Plant Water Loss (6/01)

Terrence J. Sejnowski

  1. Elected to National Academy of Engineering (02/11)
  2. Elected to National Academy of Sciences (04/10)
  3. Elected to Institute of Medicine (10/08)
  4. Homeland Security (1/03)

Jonathan Shurin

  1. Wild Weather's Influence on Biodiversity (01/10)

Nicholas C. Spitzer

  1. Nick Spitzer Elected into the National Academy of Sciences (05/13)
  2. Longer Days Bring ‘Winter Blues’–For Rats, Not Humans (04/13)
  3. Professors Johnson and Spitzer honored with 2013 Faculty Excellence Awards (03/13)
  4. Nick Spitzer to Serve As Editor of BrainFacts.org (3/12)
  5. Development Influences Neurotransmitter Use (07/10)
  6. Light Triggers a New Code for Brain Cells (11/08)
  7. Electrical Activity Nerve Cells Language (12/06)
  8. Achievement Honors (5/01)
  9. Nerve Cell Development (3/01)

Suresh Subramani

  1. Key Protein in Cell’s “Self-Eating” Function (03/08)

Kiyoteru Tokuyasu

  1. Achievement Honors (11/00)

David Traver

  1. Professors Goldrath and Traver Receive Funding from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (09/12)
  2. Birth of Blood-Forming, Stem Cells in Embryo (02/10)
  3. Stem Cell Research Grant - SD Union Tribune (12/07)
  4. Stem Cell Research Grant - UCSD News (12/07)
  5. Named Kimmel Scholar (05/06)
  6. Beckman Scholar (04/06)
  7. Zebrafish Stem Cells (11/05)

Emily Troemel

  1. Emily Troemel Receives 2013 Merck Irving Sigal Memorial Award (04/13)
  2. Studies Reveal How Cells Distinguish Between Disease-Causing and Innocuous Invaders (04/12)
  3. Packard Fellowship for Science & Engineering (11/10)
  4. Hellman Faculty Fellow (05/09)
  5. Microbe in Roundworm (12/08)

Jing W. Wang

  1. Fruit Fly's Response to Starvation (03/11)
  2. Odor Flips a Neural Switch Between Attraction and Aversion (05/09)
  3. Olfactory Fine-Tuning in Fruit Flies (07/08)
  4. Searle Scholar (5/05)

Steven Wasserman

  1. “Biotech Demystified”: Science Basics For Industry Leaders (03/10)
  2. Academic Senate to Honor Wasserman (05/07)
  3. Tweedle Coat Fashions Stocky Flies (10/06)

David Western

  1. 2010 World Ecology Award (04/10)
  2. Wildlife Declines in Kenya National Parks (7/09)

Gabriele Wienhausen

  1. Vision and Change Leadership Fellow (10/12)
  2. 2012 Athena Pinnacle Award in Education (05/12)
  3. 2010 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards (02/11)
  4. Nationwide Science Education Program (12/07)

Jim Wilhelm

  1. Novel Cytoskeletal Filaments with Role in Cancer Treatment (09/10)
  2. 2009 New Scholar Award in Aging (10/09)

Christopher J. Wills

  1. Charles Darwin Bicentennial (2/09)
  2. Third “Evolution Matters” Lecture (02/08)
  3. Evolution Matters Public Lecture (11/07)
  4. Nature Favors Diversity (1/06)

David S. Woodruff

  1. "Biological Divide" - In the News (03/09)
  2. Biological Divide Along the Malay Peninsula (03/09)
  3. Nature Matters Lecture (11/08)
  4. Elephant Species (9/02)
  5. Achievement Honors (11/00)

Yang Xu

  1. Reducing Stem Cell Loss During Cancer Treatment (09/10)
  2. Lowering Tumor Risk in Stem Cell Therapies (07/10)
  3. Genetic Modification of Human Embryonic Stem Cells (01/10)
  4. CIRM Awards $5 Million Early Translational Grant (05/09)
  5. Cancer Therapies' Effectiveness Questioned (04/07)
  6. Stem Cell 'Quality Control' (12/04)

Martin F. Yanofsky

  1. Martin Yanofsky named a Fellow of the AAAS (04/09)
  2. Elected to National Academy of Sciences (04/08)
  3. Fourth “Evolution Matters” Lecture (02/08)
  4. Evolution Matters Public Lecture (11/07)
  5. Distinguished Teaching Award (03/07)
  6. AAAS Fellows in Biological Sciences (11/06)
  7. Crops Damage Ozone (5/04)
  8. Plants Harm Ozone (10/03)
  9. Leaves into Petals (2/01)
  10. Double Flowers (5/00)
  11. Seed Dispersal Genes (4/00)

Yunde Zhao

  1. How Plants Synthesize Their Growth Hormone (10/11)
  2. Plant Growth Hormones (06/06)
  3. Gene for Plant Growth (10/03)

Yimin Zou

  1. New Insights into Brain Circuit Wiring (02/11)

Elina Zuniga

  1. Awarded Grant from Lupus Research Institute (01/13)
  2. Named Hellman Fellow (07/08)

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