We’re excited to announce that Professors Kathleen Treseder and Steven Allison, both from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, have been recognized as Highly Cited Researchers by the Web of Science Group!
Months after reading Glenda Flores’ award-winning book, Latina Teachers, I couldn’t stop thinking about the teachers I’d had and the role they played in my becoming a scientist.
The California Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce that 14 new members have joined the ranks of the Academy Fellows, a governing group of more than 450 distinguished scientists and other leaders.
Two UC Irvine scientists, Dr. Kathleen Treseder and Dr. Brett Sanders, spoke at the event about the need for the bill to fight against sea-level rise.
With fellowship support, Stacy Ann Suarez Cham is pursuing her goal of a Ph.D. in ecology & evolutionary biology.
Back in May, UC Irvine Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Kathleen Treseder presented a lecture to the public on how climate change is making much of the western United States–including Orange County–far more hospitable to dangerous fungal spores, like those that cause Valley Fever.
Here’s a discovery well worth toasting: A research team led by Professor Brandon Gaut with the University of California, Irvine and Professor Dario Cantu with the University of California, Davis has deciphered the genome of the Chardonnay grape.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Steven Frank and
his colleague Professor Paul Schmid-Hempel have recently published their insights
into four factors that influence the evolutionary genetics of immune regulators.
A new study from UC Irvine biologist James Hicks and researchers at the Gladstone Institutes, in a close collaboration with scientists at UC San Francisco and Zoo Atlanta, provides the first high-resolution sequence of the Komodo dragon, as well as insight into how it evolved.
Scientists are working to come up with more tools to get rid of bed bugs. At UC Irvine, biologist and engineer Catherine Loudon is collaborating with several engineering labs on campus to create synthetic surfaces that could trap bed bugs.
