Congratulations to Tori, who has been awarded the 2026 Sandra L. Jewett Scholarship in Biochemistry! This is a departmental award, given to one biochemistry graduate student per year. It comes with a $1000 prize. Well done, Tori, it is well-deserved!
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!
Congratulations to Scarlett for successfully defending her MS thesis this afternoon! Very well done, and deserving of the party we held afterward in her honor. Good luck with your next endeavors, Scarlett!
Congratulations to Angelique, who graduated today! We hope you enjoyed your commencement ceremony! Good luck with the next phase of your career, and be sure to let us know how you’re doing!
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!
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!
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!
Walter Torres, is a new graduate student who has joined the lab – welcome, Walter! We are happy to have you and hope for research success!
We have another new member of our lab – Walter Torres has joined us as a MS Biochemistry student. Welcome, Walter! We are happy to have you with us!
This week we had a new student join us for our group meetings. Adam Andrade, a freshman at CSUN, is planning to join the lab and will attend group meetings this semester to become familiarized. Welcome, Adam!
