April 30, 2024
In the spring of 2020, a historic red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California. Marine scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA, and other organizations seized the opportunity to study the unprecedented event and its impacts on marine life, both in the wild and in…
October 31, 2017
A new project by researchers at the University of California San Diego will investigate a biological mystery that has so far gone unsolved: can organisms use radio frequencies to sense surroundings? If experiments to be conducted through a $3.3 million grant discover positive results, they will not only uncover and…
March 21, 2023
UC San Diego’s vibrant research community wouldn’t be the same without the valuable contributions made by our postdoctoral researchers. Postdocs are scholars who have received their doctoral degree and are hired to help complete research and mentor current graduate students.
August 27, 2020
…sometimes flash blue with bioluminescence, hence their name (“pyrosome” is Greek for “fire-body”). Pyrosomes are somewhat mysterious because we still can’t predict when and why they will bloom, but they have appeared more frequently and abundantly off the West Coast in the past five years than in the past several…
June 6, 2023
Since 1954, Scripps Institution of Oceanography has set the standard for diver training at the University of California and has created opportunities for hundreds of scientific divers.
April 8, 2021
…California and have inspired bioluminescence research at Scripps, but until last year they had not been formally recognized as unique. For each of these new species and more than 100 others, the Benthic Invertebrate Collection houses the all-important holotype, the single specimen that serves as the defining example and “gold…
November 1, 2012
…proteins derived from a bioluminescent jellyfish. Much of the acclaim that followed celebrated the novel possibilities of being able to use these glowing molecules to peer inside living cells or whole animals, to observe interactive biology in real time and to ask and do things previously deemed impossible. Tsien could…
March 8, 2018
…Shimomura had long studied bioluminescent jellyfish at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and first identified the green fluorescent protein (GFP) that helps it glow. Douglas Prasher, also working at Woods Hole at the time, then isolated the gene that encodes GFP. Prasher sent the gene to Martin…
March 10, 2022
…the opportunity to research bioluminescent worms in the Deheyn Lab at Scripps Oceanography and investigate what chemical reaction created the blue light. Later, she delved into evolutionary biology research in the UC San Diego Department of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution. This experience shaped Puzzanghera’s academic interests so deeply that she…
March 25, 2014
Scientists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have shown that by encapsulating immature pancreatic cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, and implanting them under the skin of diabetic mouse models, sufficient insulin is produced to maintain glucose levels without unwanted potential…
