Utpal Banerjee, the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and chairman of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology co-authored a study showing that two-way signaling from two different sets of cells is necessary for bloody-supply balance, both to ensure that enough blood cells are produced to respond to injury and infection and that blood progenitor cells remain available for future needs.
Ladan Shams, associate professor of Cognitive Psychology recently led research that found that our senses of sight and hearing work closely together, perhaps more so than we might have thought.
Robert Modlin, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, has been selected as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science.
William Lowry, an assistant professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and associate researcher Saran Karumbayaram, have taken human skin cells, reprogrammed them into cells with the same unlimited property as embryonic stem cells, and then differentiated them into neurons while completely avoiding the use of animal-based reagents and feeder conditions throughout the process.
Robert Modlin, professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, has been named a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science for “distinguished contributions toward understanding human antimicrobial pathways, including Th1/Th2 cytokines, TLR 2 recognition of microbial lipoproteins, and the role of vitamin D in immunity.”
Amander Clark, UCLA assistant professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and colleagues recently found that established human embryonic stem cell lines, including those approved for federal research funding, differ from newly derived human embryonic stem cell lines. This finding highlights the importance of continuing to derive new stem cell lines so that researchers can better understand the ability of these cells to make every cell in the human body.
Amander Clark, assistant professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and colleagues recently found that established human embryonic stem cell lines, including those approved for federal research funding, differ from newly derived human embryonic stem cell lines. This finding highlights the importance of continuing to derive new stem cell lines so that researchers can better understand the ability of these cells to make every cell in the human body.
Robert Wayne, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is co-author of a recent study that produced the most comprehensive mathematical model ever devised to track the health of populations exposed to environmental change. The team’s groundbreaking integral projection model allows researchers to link many different data sources simultaneously.
Robert Wayne, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, recently led research that produced the most comprehensive mathematical model ever devised to track the health of populations exposed to environmental change. The team’s groundbreaking integral projection model allows researchers to link many different data sources simultaneously. Scientists can now change just a single variable, like temperature, and see how that affects many factors for a population.
Jerome Zack, professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, and his colleagues, have recently engineered blood stem cells to create immune cells that seek out and attack a type of human melanoma.
Life Sciences
** Students should meet with departmental Student Affairs Officers, to help pick the right courses and curricular pathway.**
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14A LS 30A (OR MATH 3A OR MATH 31B) Plus other courses |
CHEM14B LS 30B (OR MATH 3B OR MATH 31B) Plus other courses |
CHEM 14BL LS 7A STATS 13 OR LS40 OR MATH 3C |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14C LS 7B STATS 13 OR LS40 OR MATH 3C or other course |
CHEM 14D LS 7C LS 23L |
PHYSICS 5A CHEM 153A* LS 107* |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| PHYSICS 5B Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
PHYSICS 5C Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
Electives and remaining requirements needed for graduation |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
* Only required for select Life Science majors.
** Students should meet with departmental Student Affairs Officers, to help pick the right courses and curricular pathway.**
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| LS 20 Non-majors biology class (LS 15, EEB 25, EEB 87, MCDB 50) Plus other courses |
LS 30A (OR MATH 3A OR MATH 31A) LS 7A Plus other courses |
LS 30B (OR MATH 3B OR MATH 31B) LS 7B Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| LS 7C CHEM 17 LS 23L |
CHEM 14A STATS 13 OR LS 40 OR MATH 3C LS 110 |
CHEM 14B CHEM 14BL Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14C LS 107* OR STATS 13 OR LS 40 Plus other courses |
CHEM 14D PHYSICS 5A Plus other courses |
CHEM 153A* or 14D PHYSICS 5B Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| PHYSICS 5C Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
* Only required for select Life Sciences majors.
** Students should meet with departmental Student Affairs Officers, to help pick the right courses and curricular pathway.**
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| LS 30A (OR MATH 3A OR MATH 31A) LS 7A Plus other course(s) |
LS 30B (OR MATH 3B OR MATH 31B) LS 7B Plus other course(s) |
CHEM 14A PHYSICS 5A (OR LS 40 OR STATS 13) Plus other course(s) |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14B LS 40 OR STATS 13 (OR PHYSICS 5A) Plus other course(s) |
LS 7C LS 23L CHEM 14C |
CHEM 14BL PHYSICS 5C (pre-req for Neurosci M101A) * Plus other course(s) |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| PHYSICS 5B CHEM 14CL Plus other courses |
CHEM 14D Plus other courses |
CHEM 153A Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
*Physics does not require Physics 5B as a pre-requisite for Physics 5C
** Students should meet with departmental Student Affairs Officers, to help pick the right courses and curricular pathway.**
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| LS 30A (OR MATH 3A OR MATH 31A) LS 7A Plus other course(s) |
LS 30B (OR MATH 3B OR MATH 31B) LS 7B Plus other course(s) |
STATS 13 OR LS40 OR MATH 3C LS 7C LS 23L |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14A STATS 13 OR LS 40 Plus other course(s) |
CHEM 14B CHEM 14BL Plus other course(s) |
CHEM 14C PHYSICS 5A Plus other course(s) |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| CHEM 14D LS 107* Plus other course(s) |
CHEM 153A* PHYSICS 5B Plus other course(s) |
PHYSICS 5C Plus other courses |
| Fall | Winter | Spring |
| Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation | Electives and remaining requirements as needed for graduation |
* Only required for select Life Science Majors.