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Beaudin Named Campus’ Second Winner of Prestigious Pew Award

June 14, 2018
Biology Professor Anna Beaudin was named a member of the 2018 class of Pew Biomedical Scholars today, one of 22 early-career researchers nationwide to receive this year’s prestigious award. “I am thrilled and humbled to be joining such an accomplished and talented group of scientists as a 2018 Pew...

AAAS Fellow Brings Groundbreaking Genetics Research to Campus

December 12, 2017
Professor Chris Amemiya is new to UC Merced, but he’s a veteran scientist with a long list of breakthroughs to his name. Amemiya’s discoveries have changed the way scientists understand vertebrate genomes and their evolution, and he was recently elected a fellow of...

Another First for Nobile: NIH Outstanding Investigator Award

October 10, 2017
Professor Clarissa Nobile is changing the way we look at microbes. She wants to understand them as they’re found in nature, not as they exist in the laboratory. And she was just awarded a five-year, $1.89 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster her efforts. Nobile...

SOST inhibits prostate cancer invasion

November 6, 2015
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men in the United States. If detected at early stages the prognosis is quite favorable; however, aggressive forms of metastatic prostate cancer spread primarily to the skeleton. Bone...

Professor Jensen discovers increased dangers from parasite

February 27, 2015
New research at UC Merced has discovered that the toxoplasma parasite, an organism capable of infecting almost all warm-blooded animals, can be more dangerous than most believed. The parasite is known to cause toxoplasmosis, a disease that can result in flu-like symptoms, but more serious cases...

Professor Kitazawa Studies Copper's Link to Alzheimer’s Disease

October 24, 2014
http://panorama.ucmerced.edu/news/professor-studies-coppers-link-alzheimer's-disease http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/2014/professor's-research-examine-whether-copper-plays-role-alzheimer's-disease Professor Masashi Kitazawa wants to figure out if any...

Professor Nobile Discovers Key Elements for Biofilm Spreading

July 9, 2014
http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/professor-discovers-key-elements-biofilm-spreading A biology professor at the University of California, Merced, discovered mechanisms that allow a potentially fatal biofilm to spread and resist drugs. The research was published last month in mBio, an open-access...

UC Merced Professor’s Research Helping People Get Well

September 26, 2013
Chances are, sometime in your life, you’ll need an antibiotic. But did you know that bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance so quickly – and pharmaceutical companies are not inventing new antibiotics – that soon, there will not be any that are effective? It...

Professor Katrina Hoyer's Fellowship Takes Her into the Halls of Power

July 5, 2013
Like many faculty members, Professor Katrina Hoyer is busy running a lab, teaching and researching. This year, she adds another item to her to-do list – learning how public policy is implemented and how she can advocate for policy that affects her research. Hoyer has been named one of 10...

Seals Attracted Grad Student to California

May 13, 2013
Born in central Mexico, the sea has long fascinated graduate student Jose Pablo Vazquez-Medina. Now, he's hoping to figure out some of its secrets. Vazquez-Medina this year earned his doctorate in Quantitative and Systems Biology from UC Merced’s School of Natural Sciences. His research...

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