Discovering Curiosity: Mining the Frontiers of Neuroscience with Wilsaan Joiner
An assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, Wilsaan Joiner explores sensorimotor integration: how sensory inputs, like vision, influence our motor actions and...
View ArticleDiscovering Curiosity: Uncovering the Hidden World of Plants with Jennifer...
Assistant Professor Jennifer Gremer showed an interest in plant life at an early age, but her path to scientific research wasn’t straightforward. She dabbled in many fields related to plant sciences,...
View ArticleDiscovering Curiosity: Building Mini-Organs to Fight Pancreatic Cancer with...
While it only accounts for 3 percent of cancers nationwide, 91 percent of pancreatic cancer patients succumb to the illness within five years of diagnosis. Assistant Professor Chang-il Hwang developed...
View ArticleDiscovering Curiosity: Fighting Neuromuscular Disorders with New Faculty...
In his new lab at UC Davis, Assistant Professor Lucas Smith, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, investigates how the accumulation of scar tissue affects muscle mechanics. His aim is...
View ArticleDiscovering Curiosity: The Buggy Scent of Desire with Distinguished Professor...
To inform pest management techniques and fight threats like Citrus Greening disease, Walter Leal and his colleagues use reverse chemical ecology to identify sex pheromones in insects. From Brazil to...
View ArticleDiscovering Curiosity: The Cycle of Mentorship with Assistant Professor of...
An assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Marina Crowder teaches hundreds of UC Davis students each quarter. From BIS 101 "Gene and Gene Expression" to...
View ArticleDiscovering Curiosity: Tilling the Fields of Plant Molecular Biology with...
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,...
View ArticleDiscovering Curiosity: Brain Puzzles with UC Davis Center for Neuroscience...
UC Davis Center for Neuroscience Director Kimberley McAllister studies the puzzle of the developing brain. Part of her research focuses on why viral infection during pregnancy can increase the...
View ArticleDiscovering Curiosity: The Tug of the Tides with Coastal and Marine Sciences...
As director of the Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute, Richard Grosberg oversees an interdisciplinary body that includes membership from the College of Biological Sciences, the College of...
View ArticleDiscovering Curiosity: The Tangled Fate of Math and Biology with Professor...
Knots are a part of nature. From pocketed headphones to carelessly packed garden hoses, they find ways to manifest in strings and loops. This isn’t just a truth of mathematics; it’s a truth of biology....
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