DNA Helix sculpture in Green Hall, UC Davis

2023 Retreat at Fallen Leaf Lake

Every year for the past 20-ish years, the T32 Training Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology hosts an annual retreat at Fallen Leaf Lake to foster cohesiveness and community.  In October 2023, we joined the UC Davis T32 graduate students and faculty on their retreat.  

A brisk 3.5-hour drive to Fallen Leaf Lake, a smallish lake near Lake Tahoe, took us to a cabin-style conference center (and resort where Stanford alumni spend their summers) that has stood for more than a century. Over this retreat weekend, I took in the wooded scenery and intriguing science.

Congratulations to Theanne Griffith!

Theanne Griffith, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology at UC Davis, has been named a 2024 Sloan Fellow! Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually to early-career scientists to reward their creativity, innovation, and research, and to recognize their accomplishments as the next generation of leaders in STEM. She joins PREP mentors and previous Sloan Fellows Elva Diaz and Megan Dennis in receiving this honor.

PREP at ABRCMS 2023

In November, the PREP@UCD scholars made our annual pilgrimage to ABRCMS for a few days of science, networking, professional development, and reconnecting with alumni, friends, and colleagues. Since 2018, ABRCMS has been an important part of our fall program, and this year was no exception. 

PREP annual research symposium

The PREP scholars once again did fantastically well in their research presentations. We are so very proud of them (yes, we know that we are repeating ourselves, but it's true) and wish them all the best as they embark on their next academic adventures.

We were joined online by many members of the 2023-2024 PREP@UCD cohort. Check back after 1 July for their bios!

Photo credits: Many thanks to Crystal Rogers for the great photo in the stairwell and to Dan Starr for the "action shots"

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Joanna Chiu!

Professor Joanna Chiu, director of PREP@UC Davis, today received the UC Davis Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research. Joanna's contributions to mentoring include formative work with three PREP scholars:

Maribel Anguiano (2020 cohort, a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience -- as of yesterday!), and Kiya Jackson (2022 cohort, bound for UCLA) and Cameron Vasquez (2023 cohort), both of whom did undergraduate research in Joanna's lab.