Jacqueline Wen

January 31, 2019

Let’s Tau-lk about Tau: Exploring the Protein

By Jacqueline Wen

The Han research group has found a method that can track the healthy to pathological transition of the protein tau, which is implicated in diseases including Alzheimer's.

January 24, 2019

Gut Feeling: Studying Interactions in the Microbiome

By Jacqueline Wen

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It’s not just the individual microbes but, rather, it’s the microbes in their context," Jones said.

January 10, 2019

UCSB Researchers Help Develop New Technique to Detect Changes in Bone Structure

By Jacqueline Wen

The micro-Texture technique can still produce high-resolution data that can help in diagnosing and monitoring diseases without the need to acquire an entire 2-D magnetic resonance image.

November 29, 2018

UCSB Researchers Study Diet of Population With ‘World’s Healthiest Arteries’

By Jacqueline Wen

As the Tsimané and Mosetén populations experience an ongoing nutrition transition, the study illustrates the link between diet and an increase in noncommunicable chronic diseases.

November 15, 2018

Improving Shark Sanctuaries

By Jacqueline Wen

UCSB researchers set out to understand shark movement in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean consisting of hundreds of small atolls and islands. Instead, they discove...

November 8, 2018

UCSB Researcher Studies Optimization of Wind Farm Performance

By Jacqueline Wen

While the performance limits for a single wind turbine have been established, the same couldn’t be said of the power output from a large wind farm.

November 1, 2018

Exploring How Team Dynamics Affect Team Performance

By Jacqueline Wen

"We found that the role of dynamics of team collaboration predicts the team performance more [accurately] than team compositional features alone," said Kim.

October 18, 2018

UCSB Researcher ReFINes Method to Detect Sharks

By Jacqueline Wen

“We wanted to see if we could detect white sharks from a water sample using eDNA,” Lafferty said.

October 4, 2018

UCSB Researcher Studies Possibility of Greater Wildfire Frequency in Future

By Jacqueline Wen

Based on the climate models, climate warming may enhance the impacts of ENSO, including proportionally stronger changes to the risk of wildfire in fire-prone places.

August 9, 2018

Going with the Flow

By Jacqueline Wen

As riffles and pools provide the foundation for stream habitats and environments, they can reveal much about the basic ecology of streams.

July 23, 2018

UC’s Communication Strategies for Carbon Neutrality

By Jacqueline Wen

The CNI states it will need continuing efforts by stakeholder groups and multifarious parties, as well as engagement and cooperation across the UC community to reduce the university's carbon footprint.

July 13, 2018

UCSB’s Own BIFROST

By Jacqueline Wen

Like a faucet for light, BIFROST features a unique web interface that will allow researchers to log on to the instrument, select a desired wavelength or tuning range, and simply begin their work.

July 6, 2018

UCSB Joins Large-Scale Cancer Research Consortium

By Jacqueline Wen

Using broad evolutionary and ecological perspectives to look at cancer across the tree of life could help make great strides in cancer prevention and treatment mechanisms, according to Boddy.

June 29, 2018

Where There’s a Whale, There’s a Way

By Jacqueline Wen

Without updating protection policies to reflect the right whale’s shifting distribution, the researchers predict the right whale may go extinct in as soon as 27 years.

June 7, 2018

Consciousness Conundrum

By Jacqueline Wen

In everyday conversations, we often use the words “mind” and “brain” interchangeably. For psychologists and other researchers studying the mind-brain problem, the two terms hold very different meanings. The mind-...

February 22, 2018

Arginine’s Larger (in) Life Role

By Jacqueline Wen

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that the amino acids arginine and, to a lesser degree, lysine may have greater importance than previously thought regarding the origin of life.