crowd enjoying a rain of bubbles in the Picnic Day parade, 2023

Congratulations x 3!

  • by Carole L Hom

Congratulations to PREP alumna Dr. Anna Andronicos (Georgieva), who defended her dissertation at UC Irvine late last month. In addition to her research on the role of methionine in the cell cycle, Anna was a member of the UCI GPS-STEM program and led the 2024 Science Policy and Advocate Certificate Program.

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Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Amezquita!

  • by Carole L Hom

Jonathan Amezquita (PREP@UCD 2018 cohort) just presented his exit seminar at the University of Washington, with Dan, Carole, and mentor JoAnne Engebrecht watching on zoom. Beautifully executed and an impressive amount of very cool work on the regulation of sensory neurons in C. elegans. 

 

You can read the publication from the first part of his dissertation at PLoS Genetics, 2024 Dec 13;20(12):e1011496. A second manuscript is in review.

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Decisions!

  • by Carole L Hom

The members of the 2024-2025 PREP@UC Davis cohort have made decisions about their next steps.

Guardians: Spirits of Protection art installation by MFA Design student Miloufar Abdolmaleki in the Arboretum on March 23, 2022. The approach uses the Islamic traditional act of devotion is to expand knowledge fo cultural approaches to healing and hope. Ducks swim by.

Congratulations to Dr. Iván Olaya!

  • by Carole L Hom
 

Dr. Iván Olaya gave the UC Davis Molecular and Cellular Biology seminar yesterday, Chromosome asynapsis and unrepaired DNA double-strand breaks fail to elicit a strong meiotic prophase checkpoint response in zebrafish. In presenting his dissertation research, he told a detailed story about his meticulous work to investigate the mechanisms that regulate repair of double-strand breaks in zebrafish DNA. 

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