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EVENT RECAP: College Celebrates Faculty and Staff at Fall Welcome

The College of Biological Sciences celebrated its annual Fall Welcome event last Friday, commemorating the start of a new academic year. Faculty, staff, students, friends and family gathered in the Life Sciences Courtyard for food, beverages and celebration.

Campus and Community

Getting to the Root of Food Production: Siobhan Brady Receives Faculty Research Award

Last year, Associate Professor Siobhan Brady and her colleagues published “a core set of genes that are critical in nitrogen metabolism” in Nature. For her research, Brady was recognized with the 2018-2019 College of Biological Sciences Faculty Research Award.

Awards and Recognition

Cloning Food Crops for Higher Yields: Venkatesan Sundaresan Wins Faculty Research Award

In December 2018, Distinguished Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan and his colleagues published in Nature a method that allowed them to produce clonal seeds directly from plants, bypassing the sexual reproduction process. Replicating this process in the lab could prove vital to providing the world’s farmers with high-yielding, disease-resistant or climate-resistant food crops.

Awards and Recognition

Helping Students Shine: Julin Maloof Receives Faculty Teaching Award

For nearly two decades, Professor Julin Maloof has shined a light on biological knowledge for UC Davis students, introducing computational methods to the life sciences curriculum. For his dedication to his students, Maloof received the 2018-2019 Faculty Teaching Award.

Awards and Recognition

Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Treatment: Lasker Award Winner H. Michael Shepard, ’73 B.S. in Zoology

As an adolescent, H. Michael Shepard was enamored with biology. The interest didn’t feel like a choice; it felt like a compulsion. In September, Shepard and his colleagues received the 2019 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for the groundbreaking foundational research that led to the creation of Herceptin.

Human and Animal Health

UC Davis Awarded New CRISPR Grant to Test Novel Approach to Cancer Treatment

UC Davis researchers have been awarded $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the first part of a project to develop a novel approach to deliver genome editing machinery to genes responsible for a rare form of familial cancer.

Human and Animal Health

UC Davis Alumnus H. Michael Shepard Wins Lasker Award

UC Davis alumnus H. Michael Shepard last Friday (Sept. 20) received one of the 2019 Lasker Awards, widely considered America’s top biomedical research prizes.

Awards and Recognition

Developing Next-Gen Neuroscientists: EEOP Receives $1.2 Million to Advance Diversity in Research

This fall, the College of Biological Sciences will launch the Advancing Diversity in Neuroscience Research (ADNR) Program to help grow diversity in biomedical, behavioral and clinical neuroscience research professions.

Campus and Community

High-Definition Biology: NSF Funds Development of Next Generation Computational Tools for Single-Cell Analysis

Thanks to a roughly 5-year, $850,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation, Assistant Professor Gerald Quon will develop next-generation computational tools that will allow researchers to better understand and analyze single-cell genomic data.

Cellular and Microbiology

Discovering Curiosity: Tilling the Fields of Plant Molecular Biology with Professor Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar

During his career, Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar has published more than 100 research papers and reviews and has received many accolades. For his excellence in molecular plant pathology research, Dinesh-Kumar recently received the Noel T. Keen Award from The American Phytopathological Society.

Food, Agriculture and Plant Biology