David Wallace

November 6, 2012

UCSB Scientists Discover Mechanism to Change the Destiny of Embryonic Cells

By David Wallace

UCSB researchers in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology have recently discovered a mechanism by which embryonic cells decide to become specific cell types in adult humans. The discovery comes ...

October 16, 2012

UCSF Researcher Earns Nobel for Revolutionary Stem Cell Discovery

By David Wallace

UCSF researcher Shinya Yamanaka was recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that mature cells can be reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells. Yamanaka was the first to produce induced ...

August 22, 2012

Get To Know a Researcher: Thomas Weimbs

By David Wallace

Thomas Weimbs, an Associate Professor in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department since 2007, has a lab at UCSB focuses on uncovering the underlying mechanisms of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney ...

May 8, 2012

UCSB Researchers Explore Versatile Properties of Multiblock Polymers

By David Wallace

UCSB researchers addressed the numerous possibilities of multiblock polymers in their latest publication in Science. Materials professor Glenn Fredrickson and project scientist Kris Delaney reported on the need of a theo...

May 1, 2012

UCSB Scientists Examine Potent Salmonella Strain

By David Wallace

UCSB researchers Michael Mahan and Douglas Heithoff recently discovered “hypervirulent” strains of Salmonella. New methods to identify this especially dangerous form of Salmonella may allow scientists to effectively ...

February 28, 2012

Studies Mimic Nature To Innovate Biosensors

By David Wallace

Researchers at UCSB have recently developed biosensors that can better detect concentration levels of certain molecular markers. Chemistry professor Kevin Plaxco and lead author of the study Alexis Vallée-Bélisle have ...

February 7, 2012

Study Connects Human Activity with Increased Fires in Amazon Basin

By David Wallace

Scientists from UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis recently published a paper in collaboration with Eric Davidson of Woods Hole Research Center and several Brazilian scientists, re...

January 17, 2012

UCSB Researchers Continue Study of Deepwater Oil Spill

By David Wallace

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, recently published a study describing how underwater topography and currents affected the disappearance of methane plumes in the Gulf of Mexico following the Ap...

November 22, 2011

UCSB Researchers Grow Understanding of Plant Evolution Through Flower Petal Cells

By David Wallace

Along with a group of researchers from Harvard University, Scott Hodges, professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB, recently discovered a mechanism of flower petal evolution that contra...

October 25, 2011

Dow Chemical Institute To Fund UCSB Research

By David Wallace

UCSB recently received a grant for $15 million from the Dow Chemical Company to develop new technology through advanced scientific research. Specifically, the grant will provide the means to establish a Dow Materials Ins...

October 4, 2011

UCSB’s Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration Welcomes New Director

By David Wallace

Renowned research scientist Dr. Pete Coffey plans to join UCSB’s Neuroscience Research Institute beginning in November as part of a collaborative initiative to study the potential of stem cells in blindness prevention....

September 27, 2011

Snails Hitch a Ride With Migratory Birds

By David Wallace

Ryan Hechinger, a research biologist with the Marine Science Institute at UCSB, recently discovered an unlikely creature has been utilizing air travel for millennia. Along with his colleagues, Hechinger found that horn s...

May 31, 2011

UCSB Scientists Conduct Critical Research on Kelp

By David Wallace

UCSB scientists from the Earth Research Institute and Marine Science Institute recently discovered a new method to analyze fluctuations in giant kelp biomass in the Santa Barbara Channel that enables them to track change...