March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018 —
The inaugural chair holder of the Junior Seau Foundation Endowed Chair in Traumatic Brain Injury at the University of California San Diego is Yishi Jin, Professor and Chair of the Section of Neurobiology in the Division of Biological Sciences. Jin’s research focuses on molecular genetic mechanisms underlying the development of the nervous system, and regeneration of wounded nervous systems, with the goal of better understanding human neurological disorders and brain injury.
March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018 —
Although slavery is commonly thought to be a thing of the past, human traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits from holding millions of people against their will throughout the world, including the United States. The International Labor Organization estimates there are nearly 21 million victims of human trafficking globally, second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable form of transnational crime.
March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018 —
The Department of Visual Arts opened its galleries, studios and lecture hall Saturday, giving an inside look into the practice and research of art students at UC San Diego. Held annually, the Graduate Symposium and Open Studios showcase the groundbreaking work of Ph.D. student art historians and MFA artists. Organized by the graduate students themselves, the event gives them the opportunity to share their work with the campus and greater community.
March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018 —
Bill Nye, as everyone knows, is The Science Guy-a self-described science nerd with a bow tie whose PBS television show in the late 1990s inspired a generation of millennials to study math and consider careers as scientists and engineers.
March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018 —
In the 1980s and '90s, Roger Tsien at UC San Diego School of Medicine and three colleagues on the other side of the country made the invisible visible.
March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018 —
Diversity of perspective, background and heritage are valued at UC San Diego to create an inclusive community where all can thrive. In 2017-18, the campus recognized 20 individuals, departments and organizational units for their outstanding contributions in the areas of equal opportunity, affirmative action, diversity and the UC San Diego Principles of Community during the year. The award ceremony, presented by Equal Opportunity Services, honored recipients on March 1 at the Price Center West Ballroom.
March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018 —
Amanda Schochet could not have predicted that her love for science would lead her to become a storyteller who shares the wonders of the world via miniature museums. Schochet earned two degrees from UC San Diego, including a bachelor's in biology in 2011 and a master's in ecology, behavior and evolution in 2014.
March 7, 2018
March 7, 2018 —
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital in California to use the fifth generation troponin test to diagnose heart attack. Approved in the United States in 2017, the more sensitive test can detect heart attack within an hour, as opposed to three to six hours.
March 6, 2018
March 6, 2018 —
The study, published in the March 5 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), describes how the supercomputing power of Gordon, Comet, and GPU clusters, all based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, were used with improved accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD) or Gaussian aMD (GaMD) to simulate the merger of a G-protein “mimetic nanobody” to a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), the largest and most diverse group of membrane receptors in animals, plants, fungi, and protozoa.
March 5, 2018
March 5, 2018 —
A team of researchers has developed a light-activated switch that can turn genes on and off in mammalian cells. This is the most efficient so-called “optogenetic switch” activated by red and far-red light that has been successfully designed and tested in animal cells—and it doesn’t require the addition of sensing molecules from outside the cells.
