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iQB2 Videos are online!

July 30, 2024

Check out or new videos:  iQB2 Intro & summary video / iQB2 Biochemistry Module / iQB2 Neuroscience Module / iQB2 Optics Module
A special thanks to Wenya Froling Titzler, UCSB undergraduate student for creating the iQB2 video content featured here. Wenya is a graduating senior in the Film and Media Studies department, specializing in film production and storytelling.
On campus, she is involved in student short films and UCSB's literature club. She currently works as the Associated Students videographer, Pollock Theater event staff, and freelance videographer.

Metabowlite for the Win

June 02, 2022

Pitching its optical technology for early detection of urinary tract infections (UTIs) to help save lives, improve health and reduce costs, Metabowlite won UC Santa Barbara’s 23rd Annual New Venture Competition (NVC) Finals(link is external), taking home the $10,000 First Place Award. The event represents the culmination of the Technology Management (TM) Department’s rigorous eight-month technology business plan competition that is open to UCSB students from all disciplines.

The Current

Memory Protein - Researchers uncover unusual glassy behavior in a disordered protein

August 25, 2020

When UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Omar Saleh and graduate student Ian Morgan sought to understand the mechanical behaviors of disordered proteins in the lab, they expected that after being stretched, one particular model protein would snap back instantaneously, like a rubber band.

Instead, this disordered protein relaxed slowly, taking tens of minutes to relax into its original shape — a behavior that defied expectations, and hinted at an inner structure that was long thought to exist, but has been difficult to prove.

The CurrentOmar SalehIan Morgan

A Bridge to the Doctorate (featuring one of BMSE's current grad student)

March 19, 2019

UC Santa Barbara welcomes a new cohort of doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds.  

For as long as she can remember, Lourdes Velazquez’s parents, who emigrated from Mexico to Los Angeles, made education a high priority. Employed in jobs that were both labor intensive and low paying, they taught their children the importance of excelling in school.

Taking their parents’ advice to heart, both Velazquez and her sister pursued advanced degrees. “We are the only two in our family that have pursued careers in STEM,” she said.

The UCSB CurrentLourdes Velazquez

Cells Under Stress

January 11, 2019

UCSB researchers create a device to help understand how cells communicate to form tissues and maintain integrity under loading.

Time-lapse of epithelial cells moving in response to shear force

As cells divide to form tissues and organs in multicell organisms, they move to where they belong, informed by a series of cues that scientists have yet to observe or fully understand.

The UCSB CurrentBeth Pruitt

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