This winter quarter, UCR labs will be presenting their work in our weekly joint lab meetings. These are held on Wednesdays from noon until 1PM in the Genomics Auditorium. A pizza lunch is served from 11:30AM until noon. Come and learn about what UCR researchers are doing in stem cell biology. Click here for the...
Dr. Stephen Ashwal and Dr. Andre Obenaus, both members of the UCR Stem Cell Center, have recently published a new study in the Annals of Neurology. This study, which was done in collaboration with Dr. Evan Snyder from the Burnham Institute, uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to track the movement of neural stem cells (NSC)...
Dr. Nicole zur Nieden, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at UCR, is the editor of a newly published book entitled " Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy for Osteo-Degenerative Diseases". This book, published by Humana Press, contains 21 chapters dealing with a broad spectrum of methods used in embryonic stem cell...
On October 29th, the UCR Stem Cell Center co-sponsored a symposium on Tobacco-Related Disease Research. The symposium was well attended by UCR faculty, students and staff and by researchers from both southern and northern California. The event featured platform presentations by 10 speakers as well as a poster session. A broad range of new information...
Sabrina Lin, Shawn Fonteno, and Nikki Weng, members of Dr. Prue Talbot's lab, have published a new study in Toxicological Sciences using human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to compare the toxicity of smoke from conventional and harm reduction cigarettes. They used embryonic stem cells because they provide the best model currently available for evaluating the...
Thirty UCR scientists from life science and engineering departments recently met at the Arrowhead Conference Center for a 3 day retreat sponsored by the NSF Video Bioinformatics IGERT grant. The retreat featured presentations by all of the participants and discussions of the IGERT program and how it will evolve. Video bioinformatics is a new field...
Dr Noburo Sato's lab has found that the use of blebbistatin, a non-muscle myosin II (NMII) inhibitor, enhances cloning efficiency of human ES and iPS cells. The effect of blebbistatin is comparable to that of ROCK inhibitor, Y-27632 in both adherent monolayer and suspension culture conditions. shRNA-mediated knockdown of NMII heavy chain (NMHCIIA) also prevented...
On June 3, 2010, Sabrina Lin, a PhD student in Dr. Talbot's lab, successfully defended her PhD research in an open seminar that was part of our spring seminar series. On 6-13-2010, Sabrina participated in the UCR graduation ceremonies, was hooded, and officially became Dr. Sabrina Lin. Sabrina is the first UCR student to receive...
Tobacco-related disease kills more people world wide than any other single factor. In the United States alone, 400,000 people die each year from tobacco-related disease. Stem cell researchers at UC Riverside will be contributing to our understanding of tobacco's effect on human development using novel stem cell technologies. This year, two of our stem cell...
The annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research was held this June in San Francisco. Three UCR labs attended the annual meeting and presented their work. Dr. zur Nieden's lab presented a number of posters done on her work both in Germany and at UCR. Her PhD graduate student Ivan Martinez (a...
Dr. Nicole zur Nieden, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, recently published a new stem cell paper in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. Dr. zur Nieden's past work included making improvements in the Embryonic Stem Cell Test (EST), a validated assay based on the differentiation of cardiomyocytes that is used to...
The UCR Stem Core Core Facility had its Grand Opening on Friday January 29, 2010. Please click on the link below to see the UCR Newsroom's highlight article of the Grand Opening event. UC Riverside’s New State-of-the-art Technology to Accelerate Stem Cell Research
The UCR Stem Cell Core Facility will be having its Grand Opening on January 29th, 2010 from 1-5 PM. This event will feature tours of the new Core plus poster and image contests, live cell demonstrations, equipment demonstrations, and vendor exhibits. (Click on the images below to enlarge).
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in partnership with research institutions, patient groups, and educators around the world marked Stem Cell Awareness day on September 23. Because broader education is an important part of CIRM’s mission, an outreach program was implemented in which scientists in the field visited local high schools to discuss embryonic...
Dr. Andy Obenaus, a Professor at Loma Linda University and Adjunct Professor in Cell Biology and Neuroscience at UCR, and Dr. Bir Bhanu, a Professor in UCRs School of Engineering, are both part of a team of investigators recently funded by NIH to conduct research on neuroimaging techniques that may ultimately be used to treat...
Sabrina Lin, a graduate student in Dr. Prue Talbot’s lab and Tiffany Satoorian, a PhD student working with Dr. Michael Pirrung, were recipients this year of awards for best presentations at the 10th Annual Cell, Molecular, and Development Biology Research Symposium. Both students gave presentations dealing with their work on human embryonic stem cells (hESC)...
Connie Martin, an undergraduate student in Dr. Talbot’s lab, has received a two year award to study the effects of cigarette smoke on post-implantation embryonic development. Connie will be setting up and using the Embryonic Stem Cell test, to study the effects of cigarette smoke on prenatal development. The Embryonic Stem Cell Test is the...
In January, construction began on UCR’s new Stem Cell Core Facility. This facility is made available through a grant funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The Core will be a 2000 square foot laboratory dedicated to research involving stem cells. The facility will feature culture rooms for growing cells and state-of-the-art analytical equipment...
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Duncan Liew has joined the UCR Stem Cell Center as the Academic Coordinator for the Stem Cell Core. Dr. Liew has extensive experience with human embryonic stem cell biology. After graduating with 1st class honors from the University of Putra Malaysia, he received his Ph.D training at...
Dr Jiayu Liao an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering published a paper this week in the "Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences" dealing with human embryonic stem cell pluripotency. Dr. Liao has demonstrated that mTOR is necessary for maintenance of pluripotency in stem cells. His team inhibited mTOR using Rapamycin, a FDA...