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How did a fly species gain sole access to a fruit in the Seychelles?

A UC Riverside-led study offers an answer
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

UCR joins new regenerative medicine consortium

By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Grant to postdoc will increase understanding of how e-cigarettes affect human health

Esther Omaiye, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology at UC Riverside, has been awarded a three-year, postdoctoral grant exceeding $305,000 from the University of California’s Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, or TRDRP, to investigate how ratios of solvents and chemical mixtures in e-cigarettes influence their toxicity.
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

New approach to fighting malaria

UC Riverside-led study zeroes in on special RNA molecules in the human malaria parasite
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Study examines salt taste in flies

UC Riverside research uncovers mechanism that reduces intake of harmful levels of salt
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Widely consumed vegetable oil leads to an unhealthy gut

UC Riverside-led mouse study reports diets high in soybean oil decrease endocannabinoids in the gut and can lead to colitis
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Blog highlights Riverside’s outdoor public art

David Eastmond’s explorations of the city on his bicycle bore fruit during the pandemic
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Brain Awareness Day helps shape young minds

More than 300 local elementary, middle, and high school students visited UC Riverside for Brain Awareness Day on Friday, April 28, touring campus labs and joining hands-on experiments to learn neuroscience.
By UCR NEWS |

Researchers warn of tick-borne disease babesiosis

UC Riverside and Yale University team sequences and mines genome of the pathogen Babesia duncani
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Cutaneous chronic wounds: A worldwide silent epidemic

Chronic wounds develop due to the defective regulation of one or more of the complex cellular and molecular processes involved in proper healing. Here Manuela Martins-Green explores novel potential treatments for wound chronicity

Underrepresented STEM student mentorship grant renewed

The Career Mentoring of Underrepresented STEM Students for the Professoriate (CUSP) program at the UC Riverside College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) received a $350,000 renewal grant for the next five years.
By CNAS |

The Graduate Program in Neuroscience is proud to announce the Ph.D. Dissertation Defense of Manali Dey

Title: "To Eat or Not to Eat: The Complex Mechanisms of Dietary Preferences in Drosophilids"

Neuroscience graduate student receives prestigious predoctoral fellowship

Elena Kozlova, a graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship that will help her obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research.
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Studies identify new strategies for insect control

UC Riverside research shows how ammonia and amine odorants could be used to combat insect-driven diseases
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Sarjeet Gill: Success over Discrimination

Facing both religious and racial discrimination in his native Malaysia, Sarjeet Gill vacated a tenured university position to attempt a risky and unemployed transition to the United States.
By Marlin E. Rice |

How the brain stores remote fear memory

UC Riverside mouse study could lead to novel therapies for people living with PTSD
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

How do worms develop their gut?

The pandemic helped a husband-and-wife team at UC Riverside solve the mystery
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Flavor chemical use is increasing popularity of tobacco-flavored products

Students and young adults are especially attracted to e-cigarettes with appealing flavors

Neuroscientist named to board of directors of American Epilepsy Society

Viji Santhakumar, a professor of neuroscience in the UCR Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, has been appointed a member of the board of directors of the American Epilepsy Society, or AES. Her three-year term begins January 1, 2023.
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