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

May 17, 2024

Today the university held its commencement ceremony for graduating students in the College of Science and Mathematics. This included several of our lab members! Demi De La Vara and Ruben Bautista received their MS Biochemistry degrees and Nick Mead received his MS Biochemistry degree. Congratulations to everyone – we celebrate your hard work!

Apr 24, 2024

This afternoon, our lab member Nick Mead presented his thesis research in a seminar to the department, marking his completion of his MS Biochemistry degree. We threw a small party afterward to celebrate – congratulations, Nick!