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A scientist in a blue University of California lab coat sits beside a microscope and imaging equipment in a research lab. A computer screen behind him displays multicolored microscopic images.

Cell Biologist Elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society

by Douglas Fox
May 20, 2025

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society in London.

This prestigious appointment, announced May 20, was offered to only 70 scientists across the world.

“I’m thrilled and surprised,” said Hunter. “The acknowledgment means a great deal to me, because it’s an election by some of the best scientists in the world.”

Congratulations to Professors Samuel Díaz-Muñoz and Chang-il Hwang

by Lisa Boggeri
May 19, 2025

Effective July 1, 2025, Samuel Díaz-Muñoz and Chang-il Hwang are promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure at the University of California, Davis.

Fluorescent microscopy image showing a green-colored Entamoeba histolytica parasite in contact with several magenta-colored circular human T-cells, illustrating the parasite’s attack on immune cells.

Wily Parasite Kills Human Cells and Wears Their Remains as Disguise

by Douglas Fox
May 12, 2025

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes it triggers severe, even fatal disease by chewing ulcers in the colon, liquefying parts of the liver and invading the brain and lungs.

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