Qing Nie, associate professor of mathematics, has received a four-year,
$1.2 million grant through a National Science Foundation/National
Institutes of Health joint initiative on mathematical biology, with
funding from the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology of
the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Together with cell
biologists Lee Bardwell and Tau-Mu Yi, and mathematicians Natalia
Komarova and Frederic Wan, Nie will use mathematical, computational and
experimental approaches to understand how proper signal processing occurs

Three UC Irvine researchers have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
this year: Natalia Komarova, assistant professor of mathematics with a
joint appointment in ecology and evolutionary biology, for mathematics;
Frances Chance, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior, for
neuroscience; and Thorsten Ritz, assistant professor of physics and
astronomy, for molecular biology. All three researchers are associated
with UCI's Center for Complex Biological Systems, an interdisciplinary
center that focuses on the study of biological processes as whole