Immunology Professor Jennifer Manilay and bioengineering Professor Joel Spencer are using a new grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand a project they’ve been working on for the past two years — delving into the immune systems of living mice to see how B-cells...
Molecular and Cell Biology
From graduate student Jose Zamora’s perspective, the CREST Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) has been a spectacular success.
“There is so much value to being part of the CCBM,” said Zamora, who began as an...
Name: Austin John Escobar
Year: Third year
Major: Biological Sciences with Human Emphasis; minor in Education
Hometowns: Dublin, Calif., and Manila, Philippines
What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced?...
Graduate student Betsabel Chicana ’s research into understanding how the immune system works when there’s a problem inside the bones has earned her a prestigious fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Chicana, a fifth-...
Name: Amelia Wood
Year: Third year
Major: Biological Sciences (Human Biology emphasis); Natural Sciences Education minor
Hometown: Stockton
What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced?
A...
A brand-new faculty member is shaking up the way researchers understand cellular systems.
Computational biology Professor Bercem Dutagaci, who started at UC Merced in January, developed simulations of bacterial cells as a new way of looking at how RNA...
Name: Gabriel Viramontes
Year: Fourth year
Major: Biological Sciences
Hometown: Lodi
What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced?
One of the most memorable projects I have had the opportunity to be a part...
About 35 percent of Americans have metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that raises the risk of cardiovascular disease — the leading cause of death in the United States.
If you have three of these five issues, you have metabolic syndrome...
Molecular biology Professor Chris Amemiya and his former graduate student Molly Phillips have made a discovery that upends traditional ideas about a structural polysaccharide called chitin that is found in some fish.
Over the course of their studies...
Having had the common cold appears to have programmed some people’s immune cells to recognize the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
That discovery — by an immunology team that includes a UC Merced alumnus — could change scientists...
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