February 26, 2014
As part of the annual Kyoto Prize Symposium, world-renowned evolutionary biologist Masatoshi Nei, Ph.D., will speak at the University of California, San Diego on March 18 at 3:30 p.m. in the Price Center West Ballroom on campus.
November 1, 2021
Three UC San Diego faculty—Terry Hwa, Benjamin Grinstein and Suckjoon Jun—have been recognized by national physics associations for their achievements.
February 28, 2013
…in bioinformatics and computational biology, with a special focus on computational mass spectrometry. His research aims to substantially improve the capabilities of proteomics discovery pipelines and could result in the development of novel drug therapeutics. Bandeira received a bachelor’s of science degree in computer science from New University of Lisbon,…
October 10, 2013
New Dean of Biological Sciences Seeks to Improve Undergraduate Experience This is the first of a three-part series introducing our new incoming VC and deans. Biology majors and students taking undergraduate biology courses will see some new changes to improve the undergraduate experience this year, according to William (Bill) McGinnis,…
May 14, 2024
James “Jim” Simons, co-founder of the Simons Foundation, renowned mathematician and quantitative investing leader, died on May 10 in New York City. He was 86. The Simons Foundation has provided more than $142 million to UC San Diego.
August 7, 2013
One of the most basic and intensively studied processes in biology—one which has been detailed in biology textbooks for decades—has gained a new level of understanding, thanks to the application of simple math to a problem that scientists never before thought could benefit from mathematics.
September 16, 2013
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a revolutionary new method for identifying and characterizing antibiotics, an advance that could lead to the discovery of new antibiotics to treat antibiotic resistant bacteria.
October 29, 2015
…in the Division of Biological Sciences, will direct a new student-centered Microbial Sciences Graduate Research Initiative. Participating faculty and students will also draw from the Division of Physical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rady School of Management, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the hospitals and clinics at UC…
October 20, 2014
Physicists have come up have with a mathematical explanation for moths’ remarkable ability to find mates in the dark hundreds of meters away.
October 26, 2016
Researchers have developed a new way of obtaining useful information from big data in biology to better understand—and predict—what goes on inside a cell. Using genome-scale models, researchers were able to integrate multiple different data sets and discovered new biological patterns among different cellular processes.
