2020 News

November 12, 2020

Novel insights on cellular suicide could provide new avenues for cancer therapies.

October 26, 2020

Neuroscientist Sung Soo Kim receives prestigious NIH award to study how brains select landmarks for navigation

September 25, 2020

Fruit Flies Plug into the Matrix: A new budget-friendly virtual-reality system helps researchers study the brains of small animals

September 14, 2020

Surveillance study reveals how COVID-19 can travel silently through a community via asymptomatic carriers.

August 20, 2020

The MCDB Graduate Program congratulates soon-to-be PhD Neil Zhang in Professor Julie Simpson's group on his outstanding research and for sharing his experiences through the UCSB Graduate Division Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program.

June 15, 2020

Researchers and medical staff collaborate to detect asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 on campus.

May 15, 2020

These prestigious, campus-wide Fellowships recognize our students' outstanding progress in research and scholarship.

May 5, 2020

Scientists develop a faster, less expensive COVID-19 test that can be deployed in the field

April 29, 2020

Highlighting a campus-wide research effort to understand the nervous system using a broad array of powerful approaches.

April 8, 2020

Understanding how the protein tau moves between neurons yields insight into possible treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.