Jo-Hao (Nikki) Weng was selected as a NSF IGERT Fellow in Video Bioinformatics. She will join a new cohort of IGERT Fellows this fall quarter. Nikki is a PhD student in the Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology Graduate Program. Her research deals with the mechanism that regulates dynamic blebbing in human embryonic stem cells. Much...
The UCR Stem Cell Core recently acquired new space nearby the existing Core. The new space, which almost doubles Core floor space, will enable addition of new pieces of equipment in the future and the addition of one new cell culture room which will be set up this coming year. Also existing equipment will now...
The UCR Stem Cell Core has received three additional years of funding from the California institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). This funding helps to support the Core staff and cover the operating expenses of the Core. The Core is open from 8AM to 5PM Monday through Friday, and it available for use with stem cell...
The Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program of California (TRDRP) awarded five new research grants to UCR students and faculty working with stem cells. Four of the awards began August 1 of this year and one will begin August 1 of 2012. Ivann Martinez, a PhD student with Dr. Nicole zur Nieden and a member of the...
Dr. Andy Obenaus and Dr. Steve Ashwal, both members of the UCR Stem Cell Center, have learned that their recent article dealing with imaging of stem cells in neonatal ischemic injury has been evaluated and reviewed by the Faculty of 1000 (F1000), placing this article in the top 2% of published articles in biology and...
On March 18th, the UCR Medical School opened its first building. This is an historic event in the establishment of the UCR Medical School, which will be the first new Medical School in California in over 40 years. The event was attended by over 200 people including dignitaries from the U.S Department of Health and...
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).