Meet Dr. Alicia Hall, a postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Tallie Z. Baram in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology. She currently studies mechanisms of epileptogenesis in order to block epilepsy development. She earned her Ph.D. at University of Alabama at Birmingham studying neuronal hyperexcitability in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Alicia attended University…Continue Reading Alicia Hall
Meet Postdoctoral scholar Dr. Rishi Jajoo who conducts research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Rishi is re-engineering the mitochondrial genetic code to produce new proteins with functions not found in nature. He is also planning to speed the evolution of mitochondrial DNA to allow evolution to draw on that increased number of building blocks…Continue Reading Rishi Jajoo
Meet Dr. Houman Yaghoubi who works in Dr. Shane Ardo’s laboratory in the Department of Chemistry. Houman’s primary area of interest spans the field of clean energy, namely solar energy conversion and harvesting, solar fuel production, and synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications. His work is funded by the U.S. Department of…Continue Reading Houman Yaghoubi
Dr. Adolfo Sequeira works in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior in the School of Medicine. His lab explores the genetic and molecular basis of neuropsychiatric disorders. They focus on major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. They also study the involvement of stress response alterations at the molecular level in suicide. He started working in…Continue Reading Adolfo Sequeira
Dr. Mahul Chakraborty is a Postdoctoral Scholar working in the lab of J. J. Emerson, in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Mahul’s primary interest is the genetics of adaptation, studying how new biological functions evolve at the molecular level and what evolutionary forces facilitate origin of such functions. He uses genomic approaches to address these questions…Continue Reading Mahul Chakraborty
Dr. Mary Traester is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities for Humanities Core. Her fellowship is supported by the Mellon Foundation. At UCI, Mary is developing and integrating digital technologies for use in large lectures and smaller discussion sections, collaborating on a series of workshops and training in emerging methods and tools, developing and expanding…Continue Reading Mary Traester