Revelle family endows UC San Diego chair honoring Roger Revelle
The University of California, San Diego, has established the Roger Revelle Chair in Environmental Science at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to honor Roger Revelle, one of the worlds most highly regarded oceanographers, who also is considered to be the father of UC San Diego. A $2.5 million gift from Revelles wife, Ellen, and family represents the largest single donation ever made for an end...Ocean observing contracts awarded to UC San Diego and University of Washington
... JOI President Steve Bohlen said...Latest plant health research to be presented in San Diego
... "This year's meeting will once again provide the opportunity to broaden our scientific interactions as we meet jointly with the Society of Nematologists in beautiful San Diego," said Ray Martyn, APS president-elect and co-chair of the meeting p...UC San Diego supercomputer simulations may pinpoint causes of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's diseases
... A study published in this weeks Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Journal offers for the first time a model for the complex process of aggregation of a protein known as alpha-synuclein, which in turn leads to harmful ring-like or pore-like structures in human membranes, the kind of damage found in Parkinsons and Alzheimers patients.<...San Diego stem cell consortium tops in state funding
... Since late last year, the consortium of UC San Diego, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Salk Institute for Biological Studies and The Scripps Research Institute has received 29 grants totaling $37,336,063 to conduct life-saving work in human embryonic stem cell research. SDCRM, established in March 2006 as a nonprofit entity, marshals the intellectual resources of four world leaders i...University of Colorado influenza chip licensed by Quidel Corp. of San Diego
... The Flu Chip and MChip can be used to determine the genetic makeup of specific influenza strains from patient samples within hours. Current methods take about four days. Identifying flu strains is critical for tracking emerging strains and helping world health officials combat coming epidemics and pa...University of California, San Diego-led team discovers how we detect sour taste
... The study, featured on the cover of the August 24 issue of the journal Nature, reports that each of the five basic tastes is detected by distinct taste receptors--proteins that detect taste molecules--in dist...Burnham Institute for Medical Research & UC San Diego establish Joint Center for Molecular Modeling
(La Jolla, CA, July 20, 2006) A team of researchers, led by Dr. Adam Godzik at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, is designing tools to accelerate the interpretation, and potential use of, information gleaned from the human genome project. Armed with $2.1 million over the next three years, this consortium, known as the Joint Center for Molecular Modeling, will support scientists from...UC San Diego biologists solve plant growth hormone enigma
Gardeners and farmers have used the plant hormone auxin for decades, but how plants produce and distribute auxin has been a long-standing mystery. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found the solution, which has valuable applications in agriculture. ...... The study, published in the July 1 issue of the journal Genes and Development, describes the discovery of a who...UC San Diego scientists chart rapid advances of fluorescent tools for life-science research
An interdisciplinary team of biological imaging experts from the University of California, San Diego has published a review of fluorescent imaging technologies and underscored the importance of those technologies to major advances in the life sciences. ...... The article--"The Fluorescent Toolbox for Assessing Protein Location and Function"--is the cover story in the April 14 issue of the journa...UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will build a state-of-the-art computational resource and develop software tools to decipher the genetic code of communities of microbial life in the world's oceans. The new resource will help scientists understand how microbes function in their natural ecosystems, enable studies on the effect humans are having on the environment, as we...UC San Diego undergraduates do cyberinfrastructure research in Asia, Australia
June 17, 2005... ...UCSD Undergraduates Selected to Research Cyberinfrastructure at Pacific Rim Universities... ...A unique summer program that allows University of California, San Diego undergraduate students to do hands-on, information-technology research in Asia is expanding this year from three to four host countries, and the program is drawing more female students. ...Thirteen students - fiv...NIH awards $11.9 M to The Burnham Institute to establish the San Diego Chemical Screening Center
June 16, 2005 (San Diego, CA) The Burnham Institute has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as one of nine national centers for high-throughput chemical compound screening, known collectively as "The Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network", that will comprise the world's largest collaborative network focused on drug discovery. Dr. John C. Reed, President and CEO of...Grasping metaphors: UC San Diego research ties brain area to figures of speech
What does it take to fathom a proverb catch the figurative meaning of "an apple doesn't fall far from the tree"? ... ...According to research led by V. S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, a region of the brain known as the angular gyrus is probably at least partly responsible for the human ability to understand metaphor. ......Experimental Biology/Congress of the IUPS meets March 31 - April 6 in San Diego
More than 16,000 biological and biomedical scientists will gather...for Experimental Biology 2005, an annual meeting that brings together...scientists from dozens of different disciplines, from laboratory to...translational to clinical research, from throughout the United States and...the world. ... ...This year, the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) will...hold its 35th C...Highlights of chemical society national meeting in San Diego, March 13-17
...... national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society, in San Die...Nobel laureates to open ASBMB annual meeting in San Diego
Bethesda, Maryland, March 11, 2005: In a first for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), two Nobel Laureates will share the Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship. Both Dr. Michael S. Brown and Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, who were awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol me...International physiologists mark post-genomic resurgence March 31-April 5 in San Diego
Bethesda, MD (March 10) The 35th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS ) convenes in San Diego, March 31-April 5, 2005. ...... IUPS 2005 is organized by the six member societies of the U.S. National Committee of the IUPS, the American Physiological Society, the Society for Neuroscience, the Microcirculatory Society, the Society of General Physiologists, the Biomed...Melville, New York, October 12, 2004---Does hitting a baseball on the "sweet spot" of a bat really produce the best results? Can stuttering episodes be triggered by encountering certain kinds of syllables in a sentence? How can sound clean up hazardous waste?... ...These and other questions will be addressed at the 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, to be held November 15-19, 20...