IN THE NEWS
5/3/2012
Harris Lewin, vice chancellor for research and professor of evolution and ecology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
5/1/2012
Frederic Chedin is among 12 scientists selected to receive Individual Biomedical Research Awards from The Hartwell Foundation.
4/24/2012
Maureen Stanton, vice provost for academic affairs and professor of evolution and ecology, has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
4/17/2012
Neil Hunter, professor of microbiology, and colleagues discover a key tool that helps sperm and eggs develop exactly 23 chromosomes each, a finding that could lead to insights into fertility, cancer, and developmental disorders.
4/17/2012
David Plachetzki, postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Population Biology, has published a study that makes strides to uncover the evolutionary origins of sight.
4/16/2012
Stephen Kowalczykowski and Jodi Nunnari invited to speak in the prestigious Harvey Lecture Series.
4/16/2012
Jay Stachowicz, professor of evolution and ecology, received the 2012 Academic Senate Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.
4/16/2012
Michael Turelli, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, received the 2012 Academic Senate Faculty Research Lecture Award.
4/16/2012
Eric Mann, lecturer of microbiology, received the 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award by the Academic Federation of the University of California, Davis.
4/6/2012
Jonathan Eisen to be a featured speaker at TEDMED 2012. The presentation will be broadcast in 1005 GBSF throughout the day on April 11.
3/5/2012
Frédéric Chédin discovers how R-loops break walls of gene silencing.
2/23/2012
Jonathan Eisen, professor of Evolution and Ecology, has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology.
2/9/2012
Thomas Schoener and colleagues take advantage of unprecedented opportunity to put an evolutionary theory known as the "founder effect" to the test.
2/8/2012
Stephen Kowalczykowski, professor of microbiology, and postdoctoral researcher Anthony Forget discover how DNA finds it match.
2/7/2012
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, professor of Microbiology, has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology.
12/12/2011
Lifeng Xu, assistant professor of Microbiology, receives a four-year, $720,000 grant to conduct research aimed at better understanding how some cancer cells manage to remain immortal.
10/24/2011
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, chair and professor of Microbiology and co-leader of Molecular Oncology at UC Davis Cancer Center, and fellow UC Davis researchers discover complexities of DNA repair.
10/14/2011
Keith Barr, Siobhan Brady and Arne Ekstrom are among the 13 assistant professors to join the ranks of Hellman Fellows for 2011-2012.
9/20/2011
James E.K. Hildreth, Dean of the College of Biological Sciences, receives the prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award for his groundbreaking HIV/AIDS research.
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The UC Davis College of Biological Sciences (CBS) is one of few colleges in the country dedicated entirely to the study of basic biology. The college’s faculty, researchers and students are advancing the planet's knowledge on many frontiers by exploring fundamental questions about life.
