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Tata Institute for Genetics and Society Advances with Building Naming, Inaugural Chair Holders

September 13, 2017

…for the Divisions of Biological and Physical Sciences. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC San Diego celebrated the dedication of a new building for the divisions of Biological and Physical Sciences on Sept. 12 with a special announcement. The cutting-edge science building will bear the name Tata Hall…

McKerrow Appointed Dean of Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

June 30, 2014

Effective July 1, 2014, James H. McKerrow, MD, PhD, will become the second dean of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. McKerrow will join UC San Diego from UC San Francisco, where he served as professor of pathology and director of…

In Memoriam: William Loomis, Distinguished Professor of Biology, 1940-2016

July 6, 2016

William F. Loomis, an emeritus distinguished professor of biology who spent 50 years as a faculty member at UC San Diego, died June 30 from cardiac arrest in his campus office while working on a manuscript. A resident of Del Mar, CA, he was 76.

Researchers ‘Handed’ $4M to Boot-Up Mirror Cell Synthesis

December 10, 2019

With a new grant of $4 million from the National Science Foundation, UC San Diego’s Neal Devaraj and Yale University’s Farren Isaacs are launching new research that will help assess the risks and rewards of mirror life.

New Dean Selected to Lead UC San Diego’s Division of Biological Sciences

July 9, 2018

…Pogliano, a professor of molecular biology, as its new dean for the Division of Biological Sciences. Pogliano was selected after a national search and will begin her new appointment on Sept. 15, 2018. She is the fourth dean of the division and its first female leader. She will lead a…

UC San Diego Biologist Wins Prestigious Packard Foundation Fellowship

October 15, 2015

A biologist at UC San Diego is one of 18 scientists nationwide who this year will receive the prestigious Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, given to promising early-career scientists from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Cancer and the Goldilocks Effect

April 3, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that too little or too much of an enzyme called SRPK1 promotes cancer by disrupting a regulatory event critical for many fundamental cellular processes, including proliferation.

Glowing, Blinking Bacteria Reveal How Cells Synchronize Biological Clocks

September 1, 2011

Biologists have long known that organisms from bacteria to humans use the 24 hour cycle of light and darkness to set their biological clocks. But exactly how these clocks are synchronized at the molecular level to perform the interactions within a population of cells that depend on the precise timing…

Recently Discovered Protein Turbocharges Gene Expression

March 9, 2022

Scientists at UC San Diego and Rutgers University have found intriguing new details about a previously missing critical factor in gene expression. An ancient protein called NDF found in all human tissues enhances gene activation and may be involved in diseases such as cancer.

UC San Diego Professor Gürol Süel Receives $1.5 Million Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Simons Grant

September 22, 2016

…of California San Diego Molecular Biology Professor Gürol Süel an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar. Süel will receive a total of $1.5 million over five years in support of his studies on how bacterial cells communicate with each other via electrical signals, similar to the way neurons transmit messages in the brain.

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