News
Fall 2024
The lab is awarded an NIH/NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award and an award from the American Cancer Society and Yosemite!
Summer 2024
Jun Kim joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow and Trishna Patel joins the lab for her PhD thesis work. Welcome, Jun and Trishna!
Jun joins us following completion of his PhD at UC Berkeley in Abby Dernburg's lab, where he developed a high-throughput screening pipeline for regulators of meiosis in C. elegans and characterized novel meiotic regulators, among other projects.
Trishna graduated from UC Berkeley and subsequently worked as a Junior Specialist in the Brain Tumor Center at UCSF before joining the BMS graduate program.
Welcome, Jun and Trishna!!
We are grateful to the Kinship Foundation for the support of our work and excited to join the Searle community!
June 2024
Sonal Joshi joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow, Madeline McCanne joins the lab for her PhD thesis work, and Annika Bai joins as a summer intern. Welcome, all!
Sonal joins us following completion of her PhD at ICGEB in Trieste, Italy in Federica Benvenuti's lab, where she worked on mechanisms of macrophage recognition of cancer cells.
Madeline graduated from Cornell and subsequently worked as a Research Technician at Massachusetts General Hospital before joining the BMS graduate program.
Annika is a sophomore at UC Santa Barbara and has conducted research at Stanford, Jackson Labs, and UCSB. She joins us through the Emerson Collective First-Gen Interns program.
Welcome, Sonal, Madeline, and Annika!!!
The lab also receives funding from the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center through their Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy pilot grant program and a Hevolution Foundation Gerosciences Research Opportunities Grant.
January 2024
Jinglin Zhu joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow, and Trishna Patel starts her rotation. Welcome!
Jinglin joins us following completion of his PhD at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in Xun Huang's lab, where he worked on mechanisms of lipid regulation and ferroptosis in C. elegans.
Trishna graduated from UC Berkeley and subsequently worked as a Junior Specialist in the Brain Tumor Center at UCSF before joining the BMS graduate program.
Welcome, Jinglin and Trishna!!
The lab also receives an Impetus grant and a New Frontiers Award from the Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research.
October 2023
Ariana Sanchez joins the lab as the lab's first postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
Ariana joins us from Genentech, where she worked for two years as a Scientist developing high-throughput immune-cell/cancer co-culture assays and receptor interactome discovery methods. Prior to that, she completed her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology at Stanford University in Jessica Feldman's lab, where she established proximity labeling methods in living organisms. Welcome, Ariana!
The lab also receives funding from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation, Glenn Foundation/AFAR, UCSF Liver Center, and the CRISPR Cures for Cancer Initiative.
September 2023
Dillon Pang joins the lab as a Junior Specialist, and Madeline McCanne starts her rotation in the lab. Welcome!
The lab also bids farewell for now to An and Manu as they head back to their respective campuses for the fall term. Thank you for all your contributions to starting the lab!
May-June 2023
Alex Morse joins as the lab as a Junior Specialist, and An Nguyen, Manu Prabandham, and Meredith Fenyo start as undergraduate researchers. Welcome all!
The team notches a win with its first Incucyte assay!
April 2023