We want to extend a big welcome to our newest lab member Alex Kratochwill! Alex is a rising 2nd-year PhD student in the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology department at UCLA. We are so excited to see all Alex will accomplish in lab!
We want to congratulate Andréa on completing a summer internship at Amgen in South San Francisco in their oncology department! Through her Chemistry-Biology Training grant, Andréa had the opportunity to participate in an industry-sponsored summer internship.
We want to wish congratulations to Anthony as he begins his next chapter as a medical student at UCLA! We are so proud of Anthony for being awarded a full-ride medical school scholarship through L.A. Care’s Elevating the Safety Net Scholarship Program. While he will be greatly missed in lab, we are excited to see him begin his journey towards improving patients’ lives.
We want to extend a big welcome to our three summer trainees. We welcome Taraneh Beikbaghban from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, supported by the Austrian Marshall Fellowship. We also welcome an Amgen Scholar, Caroline Ceravolo from Western Washington University, and lastly we want to welcome Ayanna Higgins from Clark Atlanta University, supported by the Pathways Program in the UCLA Dept. of Pharmacology.
We want to wish a big congrats to our three undergraduate students who are graduating, Kaitlyn, Amy, and Beza! We are so thankful for all your hard work and dedication in lab and are excited to see what you accomplish next. We wish you the best of luck in your next adventures of graduate school and beyond!
Congrats to Nataly for passing your qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy! We are excited to see all your will accomplish in lab for these next few years!
Congrats Marisa on passing your qualifying exams in October 2023 and advancing to candidacy! We are excited to see all you will continue to accomplish these next few years in lab.
Congratulations to Aracely on presenting her thesis defense titled “The BCKDK inhibitor BT2 is a chemical uncoupler that lowers mitochondrial ROS production and de novo lipogenesis.” We wish Aracely the best of luck in her next chapter of life!
We congratulate Ajit for being awarded the 2023 Agilent Early Career Professor Award. Each year Agilent selects one professor who they believe demonstrates outstanding potential for future research, significant original research contributions enabling technologies of importance to Agilent and the world, and aligns with the focus topic. This year’s focus topic was “Contributions to the development of live cell analytical tools to identify and measure novel critical quality attributes to advance biomanufacturing applications.” For more information please see this link.
We wish a huge congratulations to Neira, an undergraduate researcher in the lab who just graduated from UCLA. Neira graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and a minor in Mathematical Biology. She will be greatly missed, but we are excited to see all she accomplishes in this next chapter!
