October 20, 2020
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced that University of California San Diego Professor Susan Ackerman, a pioneer in the study of homeostasis in developing and aging neurons, has been elected to membership in the prestigious organization.
June 25, 2024
Over three decades, the Hellman family has given over $18 million to support more than 400 UC San Diego junior faculty in their research and progress toward tenure.
March 14, 2011
…School of Medicine and Neurobiology section. His lab studies the activity of neuronal ensembles in behaving animals and how it changes with learning, as animals constantly modify their behavior through experience. More… Gert Lanckriet Gert Lanckriet is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research…
September 10, 2024
…million grant to establish the Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments. The center’s goal will be to understand how climate change may impact the nervous systems and behavior of marine animals.
June 11, 2015
Two biology professors at UC San Diego have been named Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences, an award given by the Pew Charitable Trusts this year to only 22 promising early-career researchers in the nation.
June 1, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals’ reaction to past events. The study is the first to show the ability to selectively remove a memory and predictably reactivate it by stimulating nerves in the brain…
July 6, 2023
Whether they’re engineers, climate scientists or neurobiologists, researchers at UC San Diego say their LGBTQ+ identity makes them better scientists.
June 3, 2021
…Jin, a professor of neurobiology in the Division of Biological Sciences. Colors of the Brain (CoB) is a student organization created in 2016 by Christian Cazares, Maribel Patino, Pamela Riviere and Kevin White—all graduate students in the Neurosciences Graduate Program or the Department of Cognitive Science. CoB’s mission is to…
June 13, 2013
…assistant professor of neurosciences, neurobiology and ophthalmology, and Suckjoon Jun, an assistant professor of physics and molecular biology, join a prestigious community of Nobel laureates, MacArthur Fellows, Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award winners and hundreds of other pioneers who earned Pew grants at the start of their careers. Huberman,…
October 5, 2017
…Gentry Patrick, professor of neurobiology Many of UC San Diego’s first-generation faculty share a common desire to mentor and share their own experiences as college students with the first-generation college students of today. Gentry Patrick, a professor of neurobiology, benefitted from mentorship when he was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley,…
