Congratulations to Professor David Walker for receiving a grant from the NIH-NIA National Institute on Aging for his research!

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Professor David Walker received a grant from the NIH-NIA National Institute on Aging for his research titled, “Role of Intestinal Homeostasis in Organismal Aging”

Congratulations Professor Xia Yang, who has just been appointed as the new Vice Chair for the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) IDP Ph.D. program!

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Congratulations Professor Mark Frye for receiving a grant from the NIH-NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for his research!

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Professor Mark Frye received a grant from the NIH-NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for his research titled, “Olfactory Neuromodulation of Visual Circuits and Behavior”

Congratulations to MCIP Ph.D. student. Monty Blencowe, (Xia Yang Lab) for receiving a prestigious two-year Predoctoral Fellowship award from the American Heart Association for his research!

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MCIP Ph.D. student . Monty Blencowe, (Yang Lab) has received a prestigious two-year American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship award from the  American Heart Association for his research titled, “Delineating Gene Networks Linking Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease to CVD”

Congratulations to Professor Mark Frye and his lab (Ben J Hardcastle, Jaison J Omoto, Pratyush Kandimalla, Bao-Chau M Nguyen, Mehmet F Keleş and Natalie K Boyd) along with MCDB Professor, Volker Hartenstein for their recent publication!

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Professor Xia Yang featured in UCLA Newsroom

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Congratulations to Professor Amy Rowat for being the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty- Distinction in Undergraduate Research Mentorship!

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Professor Rowat was one of only six awardees, in a large field of nominees with extraordinary records in the classroom, is a testimony to her accomplishments as a teacher, as well as her students and colleagues’ appreciation of them. Professor Rowat is so deserving of this award and the department is thrilled at the recognition

Distinguished Research Professor Peter Narins interviewed in Smithsonian Magazine in an article titled, “This Frog’s Lungs Work Like Noise-Cancelling Headphones”

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Congratulations to Professor Stephanie Correa and Professor Xia Yang for their collaboration paper published in eLife, titled, “Estrogen receptor alpha in the brain mediates tamoxifen-induced changes in physiology in mice.”

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The Correa and Yang labs published a paper titled, “Estrogen receptor alpha in the brain mediates tamoxifen-induced changes in physiology in mice”

 

 

Congratulations to Dr. Leonila Lagunes for being awarded the prestigious UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship!

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Dr. Leonila Lagunes received her Bachelor of Arts in Applied Mathematics from California State University Fullerton and PhD in Biological Sciences with a focus on computational biology from the University of California Irvine under the supervision of both Drs. Lee Bardwell (Developmental and Cell Biology) and German Enciso (Mathematics). Currently, she is working in Dr. Eric Deeds’ lab, studying the proteasome assembly from both a systems biology approach and an experimental one. Her professional goals include teaching and conducting research. When Dr. Lagunes is not in the lab, she spends time bullet journaling, creating stationary and taking care of her many houseplants. Having a highly interdisciplinary training, she hopes to provide an inclusive and equitable environment for all students, including those with similar backgrounds and identities as her own.