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Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS) Faculty Receive UCI Celebration of Teaching Award
Published April 30, 2009
The Division of Undergraduate Education, the Council on Student Experience and the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center proudly present the recipients of this year’s campus-wide Celebration of Teaching Awards. CCBS faculty member, Dr. Michael B. Dennin from the Department of Physics & Astronomy won the “Instructional Technology Innovation” category. Also, Dr. Sheryl Tsai from the Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry was selected by School of Biosciences to be honored for her excellence in undergraduate teaching.
UC Irvine Systems Biology Awarded $2.4 million from NIH for Training Programs
Published April 22, 2009
UC Irvine’s systems biology program has been awarded two grants totaling $2.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to train graduate students for careers in this field. The first grant is mainly used to support incoming graduate students in the area of Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology (MCSB) through a gateway program and the second grant is used to support advanced graduate students to study developmental biology using a systems biology approach.
Cells Don’t Always Respond According to Genetics
Published April 12, 2009
NIGMS-funded researchers have studied how genetically identical cells have different amounts of proteins that can affect their response to drugs.
Fuzzy Logic Reveals Cells’ Workings
Published April 3, 2009
NIGMS-funded biological engineers have used a “fuzzy logic” approach to model information networks in cells.
Mouse Diversity Genotyping Array Service launched utilizing array developed by Center researchers
Published February 12, 2009
The Jackson Laboratory now offers a new Mouse Diversity Genotyping Array Service utilizing an innovative genotyping microarray. Designed for high-density, genome-wide profiling of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), the array was developed in the laboratories of Drs. Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena (University of North Carolina) and Gary Churchill (The Jackson Laboratory), both of The Center for Genome Dynamics. This cutting-edge research tool, produced and sold by Affymetrix, provides more than 100 times the SNP coverage than any other available mouse array, permitting high resolution mapping and genomic analysis.
A New Study Led by CCSB Director Kevin White Could Speed Detection of Kidney Cancer
Published January 26, 2009
Large-scale data mining of gene networks in fruit flies has led researchers to a sensitive and specific diagnostic biomarker for human renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer. In the journal Science, published early online January 22, a team based at the University of Chicago led by Dr. White shows that the biomarker known as SPOP is produced by 99 percent of clear cell renal cell carcinomas but not by normal kidney tissue.
CCSB Director and Principal Investigator Dr. Kevin White make notable “Under 40” lists
Published December 11, 2008
Life begins at 40. For a fortunate, capable few, life gets rolling sooner. Two of them, Kevin White and Jonathan Pritchard, both 37 and members of the Department of Human Genetics, have been singled out for getting ahead of the numbers.
NIGMS Grant Supports Creation of Chicago Center for Systems Biology
Published September 9, 2008
NIGMS funds the Chicago Center for Systems Biology as part of its national program to study complex biological systems.
Scientists Unravel Bacterial Communication Pathways
Published June 12, 2008
A team of NIGMS-supported researchers has figured out how bacteria ensure that they respond correctly to hundreds of incoming signals from their environment.
Nutrient Status Affects Biological Clock
Published March 20, 2008
Using a systems biology approach, a team of NIGMS-supported researchers has revealed that the master gene that controls the biological clock in Arabidopsis is sensitive to nutrient status.