Nutrition & Health

(Embargo lifted at noon, Pacific Daylight Time) DAVIS--Newly published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) indicates that a drug discovered and developed in the laboratory of Bruce Hammock,UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, may have a major role in p...

Like you, we at the UC Statewide IPM Program are responding to the COVID-19 situation in ways that help protect ourselves, our families, and our communities.

For most of us, our work, social, and academic lives look much different this month in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Desert Research and Extension Center DREC is committed to continuing to work and available to assist our partners and stakeholders in our desert region.

As our world grapples with the containment of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), essential services including food provisioning remain vital to the health and well-being of our communities.

"Bruce D. Hammock is widely known for his groundbreaking research in insect physiology, toxicology, pharmacology, and experimental therapeutics.

As I write this post on the morning of March 19, 2020, several of the counties surrounding Placer County, where I live, work, and ranch, have issued "shelter in place" orders in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Hello all from the new shelter-in-place normal. We are all figuring out this new way of working and living, so in the meantime, stay calm, be compassionate, be positive and productive.

(Editor's Note: In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic precautions--when facilities are closing down--we're taking time to spotlight some of our UC Davis entomologists and their projects) Agricultural entomologist and Cooperative Extension specialist Ian Grettenberger, who joined the faculty of th...

Parents often try to predict the gender of their offspring, but is it possible to predict the sex of a cyst or sexually dimorphic nematode?

Due to coronavirus pandemic precautions and campus directives, teaching at UC Davis has switched from traditional classroom instruction to web-conferencing. The directives apply for the spring quarter--and perhaps beyond.