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Gabriele Wienhausen awarded 2012 Athena Pinnacle Award in Education

Professor Malinow elected into the National Academy of Sciences

Two Biology Professors Honored with Faculty Excellence Awards

Three Faculty named Scholars of Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

Therese Markow wins the George W. Beadle Award

Publications

Identification of novel filament-forming proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila melanogaster

Species selection maintains self-incompatibility

The spatial periodicity of grid cells is not sustained during reduced theta oscillations

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria.

Plant Biologists From Across Country to Converge in San Diego to Discuss Future of Food, Fuel

Some 300 leaders in plant and algae biology from around the country will gather here for a symposium this week to discuss ways of using genetics to develop renewable ways of improving the nation’s food, fuel, pharmaceutical and other bio-based industries.