Biologists Watch Speciation in a Laboratory Flask
Health & BehaviorBiologists have discovered that the evolution of a new species can occur rapidly enough for them to observe the process in a simple laboratory flask.
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UC San Diego Commemorates World AIDS Day Dec. 1 with Memorial Quilt Display and Events
Health & BehaviorThe University of California San Diego will honor World AIDS Day on Thursday, Dec. 1 to raise awareness of the impact that HIV/AIDS has had and continues to have on the San Diego community, the nation and world. In recognition of the international event day, which was established in 1988, the campus will sponsor a number of free activities open to the public including a display of three sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a presentation on the HIV prevention pill, talks for specific communities and populations impacted by HIV, artistic performances and more.
Community Leader and UC San Diego Supporter Anne Otterson Dies
Business & EconomicsAnne Otterson, an active community member and philanthropist who supported the University of California San Diego for more than three decades, died on Wednesday, Nov. 23.
Study: Diminishing Sea Ice is Increasing the Size of Arctic Ocean Food Web Base
Science & EnvironmentResearchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and colleagues analyzed Arctic Ocean satellite data from a 19-year period and found that the amount of biomass production at the base of the food web has increased 47 percent since 1997.
UC San Diego’s Center for Energy Research Shares $13.5M Grant for Campus-National Lab Collaborations
Business & EconomicsThe Center for Energy Research (CER), an organized research unit at the University of California San Diego, will share a $13.5 million, three-year University of California grant to encourage collaboration between the UC campuses and the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.
Largest Study of its Kind Finds Rare Genetic Variations Linked to Schizophrenia
Health & BehaviorGenetic variations that increase schizophrenia risk are rare, making it difficult to study their role. To overcome this, the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, an international team led by Jonathan Sebat, PhD, at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, analyzed the genomes of more than 41,000 people in the largest study of its kind to date. Their study, published November 21 in Nature Genetics, reveals regions of the genome where mutations increase schizophrenia risk.
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