For his excellence in research, Dinesh-Kumar has received the American Phytopathological Society's Noel T. Keen Award
His interest in plants goes back to his youth working with his father on his family's farm in India
His well-published research focuses on host-microbe interactions and plant defense tactics
Congratulations to Jamie Ho, current BMCDB second year student, and Yesica Mercado-Ayon, UCD PREP Scholar and incoming BMCDB student, on being selected for the 2019 NSF GRFP Fellowships!
When a healthy cell turns cancerous a cascade of events enables the cancer to spread throughout the body. But its origin lies within a single progenitor cell.
“What goes wrong with that particular cell?” asked Assistant Professor Chang-il Hwang, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. “Something happens at the molecular level. One DNA molecule, or one protein molecule changes.”
In a study appearing in Genetics, BMCDB Graduate Group faculty chair Bruce Draper and UC Davis researchers relay new discoveries about the molecular mechanisms behind sexual determination. Using zebrafish, they highlighted the gene responsible for determining whether the fish will develop into a female or a male.
In a paper appearing in Cell Metabolism, Associate Professor Mark Huising, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, and Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology graduate student Sharon Lee refute a previous study that claimed an antimalarial drug could be used to treat type 1 diabetes.
