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Starr-Luxton lab: entry-level position

  • by Carole L Hom

Dan Starr and Gant Luxton are hiring! Starr and Luxton run a joint lab funded by an Allen Distinguished Investigator Award.

Research aspects of this job will be using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to engineer mammalian tissue culture lines to test how LINC complexes and the cytoskeleton interact to regulate the biomechanics of the cell. Cell culture transfection, immunostaining, genome editing, live microscopy, and biophysical assays will be the primary approaches. 

Microbiome diversity in women who produce equol and those who do not

Brayan Vilanova's published research

  • by Carole L Hom

Congratulations to PREP@UC Davis scholar Brayan, whose undergraduate work on the gut microbiome just appeared. Brayan and his colleagues studied the relationship between the consumption of soy and dairy products, and gut microflora in healthy equol (a bacterial metabolite implicated in increased incidence of breast cancer) and non-equol producing Puerto Rican women. Women in their study who consume soy and high amounts of dairy products had a less diverse microbiome, leading to increased production of equol.

 

T.rex skull from the Wankler discovery

The Science of Storytelling

  • by Kevin Abuhanna

I used to hate writing. I still do somewhat. In high school, English was consistently my worst subject. Coincidentally, it was the subject with the most amount of writing. But at the end of my junior year, I was given an assignment that changed my outlook on writing. I had to emulate the tone of a short story with personal stories. While writing this particular essay, I had an epiphany: write in a way that I stayed interested. I realized that I hated writing because I hated the way I wrote. So, I changed. I wrote like I thought. Short sentences with no verbs.

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Profile of PREP@UCD mentor Jamal Lewis

  • by Carole L Hom

Read all about Jamal Lewis, a faculty member in biomedical engineering and mentor to PREP@UCD scholar Arthur Flores (2020-2021 cohort), in this wonderful profile from the University of Florida.

"Lewis, 36, is at the vanguard of immunoengineering, designing microscopic but powerful biotechnologies that stop relentless “big trucks” in their tracks." -- Barbara Drake, UF

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