Month: September 2022

UC Merced has received a $12.5 million grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop the Biology Integration Institute (BII): INSITE — the INstitute for Symbiotic Interactions, Training and Education — a research collaborative that aims to expand the fundamental knowledge of symbioses and inform immediate and long-term conservation strategies in the face … Read more

Dr. Nishiguchi and her team at UC Merced, Michigan State University, and Resilient Oceans receives a $12.5 M grant from the National Science Foundation Biological Integration Visit website: https://bii-insite.org/

The Fellows of the California Academy of Sciences are a group of distinguished scientists, nominated and appointed in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the natural sciences. Fellows help us extend the Academy’s positive impact on research, public engagement, and education, through individual and collaborative efforts with Academy researchers and staff.

Dr. Nishiguchi was recently elected as President elect for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Her term will commence after the annual meeting in January 2023. The mission of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) is to foster research, education, public awareness and understanding of living organisms from molecules and cells to … Read more

Dr. Nishiguchi and Dr. Stefan Materna from the Molecular and Cell Biology Department at UC Merced receive a faculty senate grant to study the Evolution and developmental origins of light organ lens in a squid-bioluminescent bacterium mutualism. https://www.ucmerced.edu/content/stefan-materna