Institute for Integrative Genome Biology

Free Public Lecture on Anticancer Drugs!

(May 15, 2013)

IIGB/CEPCEB Chemist Yinsheng Wang will give a talk on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. in Rooms C, D and E, University Extension Center (UNEX), on the mechanisms of action of some commonly used anticancer drugs and how laboratory research may lead to novel targets and new strategies for cancer treatment.

IIGB Geneticist Elected to Country's First Learned Society!

(May 2, 2013)

Renowned IIGB/CEPCEB geneticist Susan Wessler has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the country's first learned society. She is the first faculty member at UC Riverside to be elected a member of the APS.

IIGB/CEPCEB Researcher Elected to NAS!

(April 30, 2013)

IIGB/CEPCEB researcher Xuemei Chen has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her excellence in original scientific research. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.

Free Public Lecture on Plant-Insect Interactions

(April 26, 2013)

On May 2, 2013, IIGB geneticist Linda Walling will give a free lecture titled "Friends and Enemies: Dynamic Interactions of Plants and Insects" at 5:30 pm in Rooms C, D and E, University Extension Center (UNEX) as part of the second annual Science Lecture Series hosted by CNAS.

Discovery of Gene Silencing Site

(April 26, 2013)

A team of IIGB scientists, led by geneticist Xuemei Chen, have conducted a study on plants (Arabidopsis) showing that the site of repression of target gene expression occurs on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a cellular organelle that is an interconnected network of membranes.

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