November 13, 2014
…Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences and director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging at UC San Diego. “But one day we’ll look around and suddenly realize that almost everybody is old and we still don’t have answers to these questions. That’s why we have to…
February 8, 2018
…and maintains an active neuroscience research laboratory that investigates synaptic plasticity and neurodegenerative disease. He spoke of the influencers who helped him succeed, including his mother, who told him one of the few ways out of poverty was education. “Women played a very big role. All three of my advisors…
February 14, 2012
…professor of psychology and neurosciences Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UC San Diego. Sanromán designed the exhibition with the campus community in mind: “I hope this exhibit will appeal to UCSD artists and scientists alike,” she said, “and generate conversations across departments.” The…
June 20, 2013
…organic chemistry; James Marshel, neurosciences; Cynthia Perry, molecular pathology; Kristina Pohaku, chemistry; Manuel Ruidiaz, bioengineering; Esmeralda Ruiz, biomedical sciences; Sergio Sandoval, bioengineering; Moses Tataw, computer science; Roberto Tinoco, biology and Melanie Zauscher, mechanical engineering. CAMP is one of 42 Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation programs funded by the NSF…
August 27, 2024
While some escape San Diego’s warm summer temperatures by enjoying the coastal La Jolla breeze, fourth-year students Austin Hutton and Lucia Rejzek sought respite this summer in an air-conditioned lab on campus.
May 20, 2016
The National Microbiome Initiative is one of many large-scale global and national research programs that UC San Diego has played a key role in developing. Two months before the historic climate negotiations held in December in Paris, for example, a smaller group of climate experts and politicians gathered at Scripps…
April 18, 2023
UC San Diego recently celebrated the groundbreaking of the Viterbi Family Vision Research Center at Shiley Eye Institute, which is supported by a $50 million gift made in 2018 by philanthropist Andrew J. Viterbi.
October 10, 2013
…Lizzy Marples, an 11th grader who wants to study neuroscience in college. “We know that we’re doing something that’s helpful.”
March 10, 2015
Researchers at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in New York and the United Kingdom, have identified genetic markers, derived from blood samples that are linked to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The markers are associated with gene networks…
July 27, 2017
A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies describe development and application of new electron microscopic imaging tools and a selective stain for DNA to visualize the three-dimensional structure of chromatin — a complex of molecules that…
