Department News
NIH Awards $16.6 Million to UC San Diego Researcher for New Epigenome Center
January 13, 2009Bing Ren, Ph.D., associate professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and head of the Laboratory of Gene Regulation at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, was recently selected as one of four grant recipients in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap’s Epigenomics Program, an initiative developed to study stable genetic modifications that affect and alter the behavior of genes across the human genome.
Roger Chang and Colleagues Construct Metabolic Network of Algae
August 15, 2011Ph.D. candidate Roger Chang and colleagues including Prof. Bernhard Palsson and alumnus Jason Papin, have reconstructed the metabolic network for the algae strain Chalydomonas einhardtii, a potential source of biofuel.
Article at Molecular Systems Biology.
Additional coverage in Science, New Energy and Fuel, and Biomass Magazine.
Nearly 30 Percent of New CIRM Awards go to UC San Diego Stem Cell Researchers
May 4, 2011UC San Diego scientists garnered 8 of the total 27 of Basic Biology III awards announced today by the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC) of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state agency created by California voters to pursue the promise of stem cells in science and medicine. “Basic science has been our strength at UC San Diego because we have dedicated time and energy to developing our expertise in stem cells,” said Larry Goldstein, PhD, director of the UC San Diego Stem Cell Program. “Through our excellence in scientific research fundamentals, UCSD stem cell researchers are creating the basis for future advances in this exciting field.”
Dr. Andrew McCammon elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 3, 2011The National Academy of Sciences today elected three professors at the University of California, San Diego to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers. Herbert Levine, J. Andrew McCammon and David T. Sandwell were among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to the academy today "in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research."
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships awarded to Kate Hoff and Jeremy Davis-Turak
April 6, 2011The National Science Foundation has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to Ph.D. students Kate Hoff and Jeremy Davis-Turak in the Graduate Bioinformatics Program.
Professors Phil Bourne and Bernard Palsson elected as AAAS Fellows
January 11, 2011Eight professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Philip E. Bourne, Xiang-Dong Fu, Kun-Liang Guan, Yishi Jin, Peter J. Novick, Bernhard Palsson and Kang Zhang were among 503 AAAS members selected by colleagues in their disciplines to be honored this year for “efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.”
Dr. Lawrence Goldstein Keynote Speaker at World Stem Cell Summit
October 4, 2011Dr. Lawrence Goldstein - Director of UC San Diego's stem cell program in Pasadena for World Stem Cell Summit