April Meinzer, Financial and Administrative Officer for IIGB and Botany & Plant Sciences, was recently selected as a Spring 2023 Get Recognized award winner. Campus defines recipients of this award as career staff members who go above and beyond in their jobs, and April's work with IIGB certainly fits these characteristics. She was recognized at...
Even in apparent retirement, Mien's presence lingers, leaving an indelible mark on every corner of the lab and etched in our memories from every angle. Mien's impact on our team is undeniable, and she will forever be an integral part of our lab. Mien, as you embark on this new chapter of your life and...
In her signature powerful style, Director Katayoon (Katie) Dehesh recalls to UCR Magazine the experiences that shaped her academic career and inspires her leadership in initiatives for women. The full story can be found at Nevertheless, She Persisted
The American Society for Plant Biologists (ASPB) recently awarded the prestigious Charles Barnes Life Membership Award to Dr. Natasha Raikhel, founder of the CEPCEB program, former IIGB Director, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Read More
The American Society for Plant Biologists (ASPB) recently awarded the prestigious Martin Gibbs Medal to Dr. Xuemei Chen, Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell and Molecular Biology. Read More
Babesiosis is a malaria-like disease that destroys red blood cells. UCR and Yale research team reports the first high-quality genome sequence 3D genome structure.
Chemical and Environmental Engineer Dr. Robert Jinkerson has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for engineering crop plants to metabolize products of CO2 electrolysis to enable food production with artificial photosynthesis.
We are Power! Jingzhe Guo, a non-lipid specialist in the Dehesh lab was awarded the best post-doctoral presentation prize at the 2023 Gordon Research Conference on Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism and Function in Galveston, Texas!
Ray finds volatile repellants such as ammonia stuns mosquito ability to smell humans. He also found amine odorants inhibit insect ability to detect humidity.
UCR Published the Following Article by Jules Bernstein on December 21, 2022. For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. UC Riverside researchers have now decoded those previously opaque signals. For half a century botanists have known that the command center...
Fellowship to the National Academy of Inventors is the highest distinction awarded to academic inventors. Distinguished Professor Sean Cutler's research takes a synthetic biology approach to manipulating plant response to drought.
C. elegans is a model organism to investigate how genes orchestrate development. Genes studied in C. elegans that specify the gut are missing in other nematodes, how do those intestines get made? Husband-and-wife duo figure out the genetic evolution.
On behalf of the IIGB Community & Botany and Plant Sciences Department, we congratulate our colleague Julia Bailey-Serres who been recognized on the Clarivate Analytic’s Highly Cited Researchers list once again this year. Julia is one of six UCR faculty on the list this year. It is truly remarkable that she has been on this...
Thirdhand smoke is the residual tobacco pollutants that remain on surfaces indefinitely. UCR, UCSF, and UCD researchers funded by tobacco research grants published an article outlining the damage of third-hand smoking
Alexander Raikhel is a Distinguished Professor of Entomology and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Learn about his inspiring story of pursuing science despite discrimination and political strife.
