December 9, 2025

This afternoon former group member Sayuri Pacheco successfully defended her PhD thesis at USC. Her talk was titled “Disordered with a purpose: characterizing the dynamic fuzzy coat of α-synuclein fibrils”. Congratulations and welcome to the club, Dr. Pacheco!

January 28, 2025

This afternoon former group member Lannah Abasi successfully defended her PhD thesis at UCSD. Her talk was titled “Investigation of phase separation in heterochomatin organization and neurological disease”. Congratulations and welcome to the club, Dr Abasi!

January 24, 2025

Welcome to Zeni Fontanilla, a new undergraduate research student in the lab! She, along with Adam Andrade (who attended our group meetings last semester) have formally joined the group. Both are excited to get started – welcome to our research family!

January 11,2025

This morning Scarlett presented a poster of her research at the CSUBIOTECH symposium. She had a lot of interest from symposium attendees, and was busy presenting through the entire poster session!

October 7, 2024

The CSUN Newsroom has published an article about our former labmate Akemi Hinzer (who graduated in Fall 2021) and her role in preparing NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft for launch in a few days (with a launch window October 12 – November 6). The Clipper’s mission is to do multiple close fly-bys of Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter,… Continue reading October 7, 2024