Prof. Michele Nishiguchi (University of California Merced, USA) “Interpreting the road map between ecological and molecular boundaries using a squid-bacterial mutualism” To participate in the

Undergraduate Aarthika Nagarajan was accepted into the UC Merced UROC program for the summer of 2023 UROC Mission Fostering access to faculty-mentored research opportunities for

Undergraduate Jason Tello (headshots above) was accepted into the UC Berkeley NSF REU program “Integrating Biology from Molecules to Ecosystems” for the summer of 2023.

The CSU Stanislaus Science Day took place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, 2023 at Naraghi Hall of Science, CSU Stanislaus Main Campus

Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor Michele “Nish” Nishiguchi has been inducted as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and was recently named president-elect for the Society

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Nishiguchi received $15,000 from the Moore Foundation to support the annual Squid-Vibrio meeting being held at UC Merced in 2023. https://www.moore.org/

Congratulations to David Hernandez for getting accepted into the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. IQ BIO REU program this summer

Professor Nishiguchi was recently awarded a 5 year NIH U-RISE grant with Professor Rudy Ortiz to support undergraduate research training at UC Merced. Read More:

Doctoral student Daravuth Cheam was awarded the JGI/UC Merced Genomics Distinguished Graduate Internship for summer 2022.  He will be studying Virus Diversity and Host Interactions

The UC Merced women’s basketball team beat Westcliff University 64-46 on Tuesday night to win their fourth California Pacific Conference Tournament Championship in the last eight years. The Bobcats

Daravuth Cheam Wins the SSE membership award  from the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). The goal of these awards is to support researchers

Congrats to Daravuth Cheam for being selected for a Broadening Participation award to attend the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meetings in Phoenix, AZ”.