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Karen Xiao wins award at 2022 NCI Jr. Investigator meeting!
Karen Xiao, a 4th-year MCSB student in Dr. Anand Ganesan's lab, was awarded the People's Choice Poster Award at the 2022 NCI Junior Investigator Annual Meeting! Her poster was entitled, "Identifying Signaling Networks in Melanoma Tumors that Promote the Uncontrolled Growth of BRAF Mutant Melanocytes."
Dr. Min Wu receives NSF Career Award
Dr. Min Wu (MCSB Inaugural Class 2007) has been awarded a NSF Career Award. Her project, "Probing Multiscale Growth Dynamics in Filamentous Cell Walls," will develop mathematical models and computational methods to simulate, predict and quantify various aspects of cell wall expansion. Findings from this study will have great impact in agriculture and public health.
Presently, Dr. Min Wu is an assistant professor in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA.
Drs. Zhao and Gratton publish their novel method for multiplexed mRNA profiling in Nature Communications.
Dr. Enrico Gratton and Dr. Weian Zhao publish their latest work, Spatial transcriptomics using combinatorial fluorescence spectral and lifetime encoding, imaging and analysis, in Nature Communications!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27798-0
Dr. Mortazavi discusses his recent work in New York Times
Dr. Ali Mortazavi's discusses his lab's most recent work, Coordinated Gene Expression and Chromatin Regulation during Hydra Head Regeneration, published in Genome Biology and Evolution this month, with New York Times.
Funding Opportunity – UCI Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CaSB@UCI) Pilot Awards
Tessa Morris awarded 2021 La Verne Noyes Fellowship
Tessa Morris, an MCSB PhD student in Dr. Anna Grosberg’s Cardiovascular Modeling Laboratory, is the recipient of the 2021 La Verne Noyes Fellowship!
Tessa works to create computational tools for characterization of cardiac tissue architecture. This involves using and developing image analysis techniques to extract quantitative information about the biological constructs that comprise muscle tissues.
The La Verne Noyes Fellowship provides financial support to graduate students who demonstrate outstanding past academic achievement as well as future promise and are descendants of World War I U.S. Army or Navy veterans.
Congratulations, Tessa!
Trini Nguyen receives NSF fellowship
The MCSB program would like to congratulate student Trini Nguyen on receiving a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!
The title of Trini’s project is: Intermediate Binding States, Motor Length, and Rigidness Affect Intracellular Transport.
Trini collaborates with Dr. Steve Gross (UCI Developmental & Cell Biology) and is a Fellow of the Center for Multiscale Cell Fate.
Stephen Chea receives CdLS Foundation Grant
As part of the 2019 Research Grants Program, the CdLS Foundation has awarded $24,447 to researchers studying various aspects of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS). Chea, one of three researchers sharing the award, will present findings at the 2020 CdLS Scientific and Educational Symposia.
Stephenson Chea is a Graduate Researcher in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, Dr. Anne L. Calof laboratory, University of California, Irvine, Center for Complex Biological Systems: Investigating Cell Fate Misallocation as a Source of Developmental Defects in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome.
This study will be using single-cell RNA sequencing to investigate whether similar disruptions in the allocations and fates of embryonic stem and progenitor cells are also responsible for defects in the brain and gastrointestinal system, two critical organ systems that often show abnormalities in CdLS
UCI/NTU Joint Symposium Sponsored by the Center for Complex Biological Systems and the Cancer Research Institute
Colleagues,
On December 3rd (next Tuesday), CCBS and the Cancer Research Institute will host a one day symposium in the Cal-IT2 auditorium, with speakers representing National Taiwan University (NTU) and UCI. As you may know, CCBS has sought to foster academic exchange and collaboration with NTU—the premier University in Taiwan—for several years. Areas of overlapping interest include Systems Biology, Precision Medicine, Cancer Biology, Immunology, Microbiome Science, Biotechnology and several others. Last year our colleagues at NTU were kind enough to host a Symposium in Taipei, which included talks from Ali Mortazavi, Paul Gershon, Katrine Whiteson, Kyoko Yokomori and myself.
This year they are sending five representatives from NTU to talk alongside six UCI faculty members. A flier and a tenative program are attached. All members of the UCI community are invited to attend, learn about the science being done by some of our Taiwanese colleagues, and have an opportunity to hear about potential opportunities for collaboration and exchange.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Arthur Lander
Arthur D. Lander, M.D., Ph.D.
Donald Bren Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology
Director, Center for Complex Biological Systems