News Archive
February 13, 2006
Streaming Video from Information Theory and Applications Workshop
Faculty from Bioengineering, CSE and ECE were among more than 400 experts from around the world who participated in a weeklong workshop to inaugurate Calit2's new Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Center. Streaming video of key presentations and tutorials is now available for on-demand viewing. Full Story
February 10, 2006
UCSD Bioengineering Professor Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Bernhard O. Palsson, a professor of bioengineering and adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Full Story
February 5, 2006
Decoding Da Vinci, UCSD Alumnus Shows Stunning Discoveries
To a packed audience at Calit2, UCSD bioengineering alumnus Maurizio Seracini unveiled drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci that went unseen for 500 years, until Seracini used high-tech imaging techniques to look below the surface of Da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi. Full Story
February 1, 2006
Leading Scientists Help Guide New Nationwide Networking Infrastructure
Two of the eight experts appointed to a new Science Research Council for optical networking have appointments in the Jacobs School: Calit2 director Larry Smarr in Computer Science and Engineering; and UCSD neuroscientist Mark Ellisman, adjunct professor of Bioengineering. Full Story
January 24, 2006
Patterns in Genome Organization May Partially Explain How Microbial Cells Work
The location of a piece of real estate may be its most important feature to many Realtors, and bioengineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Virginia have reported that the location of genes and other features distributed along the chromosomes of bacteria and simpler organisms also is fundamentally important to how microbial cells operate. Full Story
December 21, 2005
Researchers Quantify More Noise in Gene Expression
A team of researchers at UCSD led by bioengineering professor Jeff Hasty report in the Dec. 21 issue of Nature a mathematical description of “extrinsic noise" in gene expression in a technique that would apply to other types of cells and other species. Full Story
December 16, 2005
Students Engineer a Digital Solution for Senior Care Provider
A team of UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering students has designed a system that is enabling nurses at St. Paul’s Senior Homes & Services to manage patient information via an easy-to-use computer interface. Full Story
December 15, 2005
How E. coli Bacterium Generates Simplicity from Complexity
Researchers at UCSD report in the Dec. 27 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that computer simulations show that only a handful of dominant metabolic states are found in E. coli even when it is “grown” in 15,580 different environments. Full Story
November 30, 2005
Engineers Discover Why Toucan Beaks Are Models of Lightweight Strength
Marc A. Meyers, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, reports in Acta Materialia that the secret to the toucan beak's lightweight strength is an unusual bio-composite. Full Story
November 29, 2005
UCSD Establishes Graduate Training Program Integrating Biomedical and Physical Sciences with Engineering
Nine graduate programs and thirteen departments at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are collaborating in a new graduate educational program at the increasingly crucial interface of biology, medicine, and physical and engineering sciences. Full Story
November 2, 2005
Researchers Develop New Method To Find Deadly Malaria Parasite's Achilles Heel
A team of UCSD researchers led by bioengineering professor Trey Ideker has discovered that the single-cell parasite responsible for an estimated 1 million deaths per year worldwide from malaria has protein “wiring” that differs markedly from the cellular circuitry of other higher organisms, a finding which could lead to the development of antimalarial drugs that exploit that difference Full Story
November 1, 2005
Researchers Learn How Blood Vessel Cells Cope with their Pressure-Packed Job
UCSD researchers stretched cells in a workout chamber the size of a credit card to gain a better understanding of how repetitive stretching of endothelial cells that line arteries can make them healthy and resistant to vascular diseases. Full Story
October 21, 2005
Scientists Discover Secret Behind Human Red Blood Cell's Amazing Flexibility
A team of UCSD researchers discovered how a mesh-like protein skeleton gives a healthy human red blood cell both its rubbery ability to stretch without breaking, and a potential mechanism to facilitate diffusion of oxygen across its membrane. Full Story
October 3, 2005
Thinking Big with the Very Small: Focus of New Cancer Nanotechnology Center at UCSD
In a new national effort to fight cancer with “nanoscale” devices that find and destroy tumor cells while leaving healthy tissue unharmed, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) today awarded the University of California, San Diego $3.9 million in the first year of a five-year $20 million initiative to establish a Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE). Full Story
September 30, 2005
Noise and Delays Explain Why Some Genes Oscillate in Activity
UCSD scientists report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the coupling of noise and time delay could also be an important factor in determining the variability in gene expression. Full Story
September 6, 2005
UCSD Bioengineering Professor Trey Ideker Named Top 35 Young Scientist by MIT's Technology Review Magazine
Trey Ideker, an assistant professor of bioengineering at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering, has been named one of the nation’s top 35 innovators under age 35 by MIT’s Technology Review magazine. Full Story
August 16, 2005
UCSD Named 'Hottest for Science' by Newsweek Guide
August 16, 2005--The University of California, San Diego, long regarded as one of the nation’s premier research universities, has been named the “hottest” institution in the country for students to study science by Newsweek and the 2006 Kaplan/Newsweek College Guide. Full Story
August 9, 2005
COSMOS Experience Ends on a High Note for High School Students at UCSD
The 83 students participating in the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) program left the UCSD campus over the weekend, after showcasing their work for industry and family members at a Student Research Expo. In 2005 UCSD became the fourth UC campus after Irvine, Davis and Santa Cruz to host the COSMOS program. Full Story
August 8, 2005
Von Liebig Center Funds Five New Projects
The von Liebig Center awards more than $200,000 to five projects led by five professors at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Full Story
August 1, 2005
Researchers in Australia Perform Microsurgery in California over the Internet
Scientists from UC Irvine, UC San Diego and the University of Queensland have performed laser surgery and “optical trapping” via the Internet, producing surgical holes in a distinct pattern of less than one micron in diameter in single cells. Full Story