Assistant Professor Pei Su (link to Su Lab website) has been selected as a Scialog Fellow in Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems (NCE), joining the program for its third and final year.
The three-year Scialog initiative brings together early-career scientists from many disciplines to explore how nervous systems respond and adapt to rapid environmental change, such as pollution, toxins, and shifting habitats.
Su joined the UC Riverside Department of Biochemistry as an Assistant Professor in 2025. Su earned a Ph.D. at Purdue University with Professor Julia Laskin and completed postdoctoral training at Northwestern University with Professor Neil Kelleher. In addition to Scialog Fellow, Su has recently received the UC Regents’ Faculty Fellowship and Young Investigator Award from the Chinese American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
The Su Lab studies proteoform biology, the many molecular forms a protein can take through genetic variation, alternative splicing, and post-translational modifications. The lab develops next-generation top-down and native protein mass spectrometry methods, including nano-DESI and laser-ablation based spatial proteomics, to map proteoforms directly in tissues and single cells. Su hopes to contribute a molecular perspective on how metabolic proteins in the brain and other tissues change under environmental stress.
Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems (2025–2027) is sponsored by Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), with support from Allen Family Philanthropies, The Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and The Kavli Foundation. The Year 3 meeting will take place in 2027, in Tucson, Arizona.
Click here (https://rescorp.org/scialog/neurobiology-and-changing-ecosystems/) for the list of Fellows and Facilitators. Year 3 Fellows will be added as they confirm attendance at the 2027 meeting.
NCE Fellows come from institutions across the United States and Canada and work in fields including cell biology, genetics, neurophysiology, climate science, environmental chemistry, physical modeling, and toxicology. Scialog meetings help scientists from different disciplines connect, discuss open problems in fundamental science, and develop ideas for team projects.
Senior scientists serve as Facilitators, framing key questions, guiding discussion, and reviewing proposals for collaborative, high-risk research. Selected team projects receive seed funding.