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The Youtube page of Peter Wainwright’s lab in the Department of
Evolution and Ecology has a number of high-speed videos of fish
feeding, mostly by suction but also a few “biters” such as moray eels.
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The College of Biological Sciences (CBS) recognizes Peter Wainwright, professor of evolution and ecology, with the CBS 2008-09 Faculty Teaching Award!
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The UC Davis College of Biological Sciences (CBS) is one of few colleges in the country dedicated entirely to the study of basic biology. The college’s faculty, researchers and students are advancing the planet's knowledge on many frontiers by exploring fundamental questions about life.

College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior student Tem Woldeyesus wowed judges at cancer center research symposium!
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UC Davis Health System is charged with discovering and sharing knowledge and providing the highest quality care. UC Davis Health System pursues its mission through the education of physicians, medical ...

College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Read a great article by Emily Dubina in the latest issue of the UC Davis magazine! Emily is a 2009 graduate (exercise biology) of the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences and she also won the College Medal.
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The first time I walked through the double doors of 1262 Haring into undergraduate “Human Gross Anatomy Lab 101L,” my senses went into overdrive. Students gathered around stainless steel gurneys, chatting anxiously as they waited for class to start. ...

College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Are you a graduating senior participating in the commencement ceremony on December 12? Would you like to wow your family and friends by being the student commencement speaker? Deadline to submit your application is this Friday, October 16 at 5:00 p.m. Contact Gail Stroup, commencement coordinator, for additional information, gastroup@ucdavis.edu.
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Applications may be downloaded as a pdf file HERE . Applications are due by 5:00 p.m., Monday, October 16, 2009 to the College of Engineering Deans Office, 1050 Kemper Hall.

College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis One of the scientists featured in the fall newsletter, Lifeng Xu, spent her postdoctoral years studying telomeres in the 2009 Nobel prize in medicine winner Elizabeth Blackburn’s lab!
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The fall issue of the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences newsletter features three scientists who work on the basic biology of aging and regeneration in the college.

College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Start the new academic year with a Storer Lecture! Dr Carlos Castillo-Chavez from Arizona State University will speak about The Complexity of Epidemics and the Simplicity of Epidemiological Theory: with Examples from the H1N1 Ongoing Pandemic on Wednesday September 30 at 4:10 p.m. in 1005 Genome.
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College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis James Doyle, paleobotanist and professor of evolution and ecology at the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, shares his expert opinion about the evolution of flowers in The New York Times article "Where Did All the Flowers Come From?"
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A few genes seem to have guided the great evolutionary burst of flowering plants.

College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Interested in marine biology? Follow College of Biological Sciences alumna Erin Loury in her summer-at-sea adventures with Moss Landing Marine Labs!
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Undergraduate education: B.S. in Biological Sciences (emphasis in Marine Biology) and a minor in English, UC Davis (2007)

College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis By James D. Watson, a winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is the chancellor emeritus of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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Beating cancer now is a realistic ambition for the National Cancer Institute because, at long last, we largely know its true genetic and chemical characteristics.

College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Peter Wainwright, professor of evolution and ecology, co-authored a study which found that after having evolved to eat other fish, the largemouth bass have remained relatively unchanged. “There’s no fish out there that’s a better fish-feeder,” Wainwright says.
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ScienceDaily (July 28, 2009) For avid fishermen and anglers, the largemouth bass is a favorite freshwater fish with an appetite for minnows. A new study finds that once they evolved to eat other ...

College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Kimberley McAllister, associate professor at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, co-authored a study that discovered how a protein called neuroligin is critical to the construction of a working synapse.
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A protein called neuroligin that is implicated in some forms of autism is critical to the construction of a working synapse, locking neurons together like "molecular Velcro," a study lead by a team of UC Davis researchers has found.

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Summer lecture! On Monday, July 13, 2009 at 4:10 P.M. come see Bo Barker Jørgensen speak at UC Davis! The topic is “The deep subseafloor
biosphere – microbial life under extreme energy limitation.”
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College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Congratulations to all the biology graduates this year! On June 12 at 10 a.m. PST at the Activities & Recreation Center, the College of Biological Sciences will award 1,040 Bachelor of Science and 30 Bachelor of Arts degrees. You can watch the ceremony online via webcast!
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