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A recent article was published in the UC Merced Newsroom based on the Valley Teens as Parents study on sleep and Latina teen mothers' mental health. English-language version: https://ucm.edu/1CEic5 Spanish-language version: https://ucm.edu/RsgeB7

The Family Development Lab presented on effective parent-teen communication at the 2017 Tri-District Medical Academies Conference at Cesar E. Chavez Middle School in Planada.

Family Development Lab graduate student Carmen Kho was awarded the Donald and Effie Godbold Fellowship, a fellowship designed to recognize the unique challenges that face international graduate students and the promise that they can contribute a unique perspective to our community. Left to right: Dr...

UC Merced University Communications article on Professor Main’s research on parent-adolescent conflict. This study found that to best resolve conflicts, mothers and their adolescent children should avoid reciprocating negative emotion and take turns validating each other’s views.

Very excited to share our discovery and characterization of the GPI sidechain sytnthetic pathway in T. gondii. This is a first for any parasite. This is the thesis work by graduate student Julia Alvarez, in collaboration with Christopher West at University of Georgia. Parasites that lack a GPI...

Well done, Pooja! Congratulations to Dr. Pooja Chopra! Dr. Chopra will continue her academic adventures with us as a UC Merced Lecturer.

Dr. Yu Zeng's recent work on bacterial rosettes revealed an aggregation-based motility of bacteria, which is now published as Self-propelling and rolling of a sessile-motile aggregate of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus in Communications Biology (Nature publisher), and highlighted in the journal...

Congratulations Patrick on his work on "Mechanical interactions direct multicellular network formation on elastic substrates" being accepted to PNAS!

The Khatri Lab, in collaboration with Prof. Suzanne Sindi and Prof. Erica Rutter in Applied Math and Prof. Thelma Hurd, Director of Medical Education, at UC Merced just received a seed grant from the Health Sciences Research Institute at UC Merced.