Erendira Garcia

January 21, 2016

Investigating Microbes in the Sargasso Sea

By Erendira Garcia

Thanks to new funding from an anonymous donor, Craig Carlson, professor and chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Ecology, Evolution, and Microbial Biology department, will now be directing a collaborative project that conducts ...

January 7, 2016

Transforming Diabetes Treatment

By Erendira Garcia

Since the development of diabetes treatment, injections have been the only method of insulin delivery available to patients. However, diabetes patients may soon be able to replace their insulin pricks with a pill that Sa...

November 19, 2015

California Health Department Bans Crabs Due to Toxic Algal Blooms

By Erendira Garcia

Crab season is getting a late start this year due to high levels of domoic acid (DA) present in Dungeness and rock crab off of most of the West Coast. From Ventura County to the Oregon border, State Fish and Wildlife ser...

October 29, 2015

Commonly Abused Drugs – Cocaine

By Erendira Garcia

Although not a new trend, cocaine use has been portrayed in media — from soap operas to trap music — as an increasingly glamorized lifestyle. Cocaine has had a tumultuous history and continues to be one of the most c...

September 24, 2015

Global Plastic Pollution Threatens Seabirds

By Erendira Garcia

Plastic pollution has been an important global environmental concern for decades due to the rapid amount of plastic production and consumption. Until now, scientists have not been able to quantify the impact of plastic w...

September 7, 2015

Scientists Discover Single-Celled Marine Plankton Staring Back at Them

By Erendira Garcia

Scientists at the University of British Columbia have identified an eye-like structure in a rare, single-celled marine plankton from the family Warnowiaceae. It is more common that multicellular organisms gain morphologi...

August 13, 2015

UCSB Professor Announced as NFL Sponsored Grant Recipient

By Erendira Garcia

Imagine awaking in an emergency room. A doctor assures that you have suffered a mild concussion from an early morning bike crash, and that you’ll be back attending class in no time. But a week or two later, you discove...

July 19, 2015

Study Confirms Connection Between Synapses and Memory Storage

By Erendira Garcia

Scientists at Stanford’s Bio-X Center have proven that memories last as long as the synapses that store them. Until now, this concept has been a long-standing unproven theory in the scientific community. The team of St...

July 2, 2015

Chasing the Solar Revolution

By Erendira Garcia

Scientists and environmentalists have been hopeful of a “solar revolution” in the near future where all electricity will be powered by the sun’s energy. The concept of solar energy has proved to be cost-effective, ...

May 21, 2015

Coffee Addicts Rejoice

By Erendira Garcia

I invite you to question a friend who has recently acquired a coffee habit: chances are they will speak of their consumption with a tone of culpability, admitting a need to cut down as soon as finals are over. This is a ...