Fall 2024
Summer 2024
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 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 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 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
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
The team notches a win with its first Incucyte assay!
April 2023