Entries by Aj Cheline
Campus Curtailment Impact on Research Support Operations
Updated December 7, 2020 UC Davis has announced a Davis campus curtailment program for six workdays between December 21, 2020, and January 4, 2021. Although the campus has modified the curtailment from a hard closure to a soft closure, the Office of Research will continue with its original plan. Please submit all routine or known […]
West African Cuisine at the Heart of New Fortification Clinical Trial Led by UC Davis
By Lisa Howard Bouillon is a staple ingredient in West African cuisine. The cubes are used to flavor soups, stews, gravies and rice. Popular dishes include Red-Red, a bean stew made with red palm oil and fried ripe red plantain, and Jollof Rice, a spicy rice dish prepared with tomatoes, peppers and onions. Seth Adu-Afarwuah’s […]
Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR, coronavirus and curiosity-driven research
Last week, Jennifer Doudna, the 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, gave a fascinating talk to an online audience of more than 1,600 viewers. She shared her journey in co-developing the powerful genome-editing technology CRISPR and its potential to improve diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. Doudna’s co-discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 genetic engineering technology has disrupted human and […]
Call to Enter Phase 2x of the On-Campus Research Ramp-Up Plan
Considering the current infection trends in Yolo and Sacramento counties, we will not be moving on to Phase 3 until our saliva testing facility scales up. However, we will have an incremental research ramp-up to Phase 2x effective October 30, 2020. Details of the Phase 2 were shared in our earlier guidance. Implementations of the […]
Launch Event: Research Pathways to Impact
Please join us for a conversation on how new approaches in team science are leading to unprecedented advances in research outcomes across disciplines. Panelists will include Vice Chancellor for Research Prasant Mohapatra, Dean Allison Brashear from the School of Medicine and Dean Michael Lairmore from the School of Veterinary Medicine. Prasant Mohapatra will also provide an update on the […]
Distinguished Speaker Series in Research and Innovation – 2020 Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna
Guest Speaker Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UC Berkeley Founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute Recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, CRISPR-Cas9 Talk Title CRISPR and Coronavirus Event Details Date: Friday, October 30, 2020 Time: 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Location: […]
