ABRCMs meet and greet, 2019
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Dr. Brayan finishes his PhD

  • by Carole L Hom
 

 

Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas just defended his dissertation in the Field of Microbiology at Cornell University. In January, he will be off to do a postdoc at the University of North Carolina -- Charlotte under the mentorship of Dr. Elaine Luo. His research in the Luo lab will focus on grazing by marine snails on corals, with implications for management and conservation of coral reefs.

Congratulations, Brayan!

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Another PhD completed: Brandy Weathers!

  • by Carole L Hom
 

Meet Dr. Brandy Weathers, PREP@UC Davis alumna from the 2020-2021 cohort.

Brandy just completed a PhD from the Molecular and Computational Biology program at USC under the direction of Sean Curran. She studied host-pathogen interactions, signal transduction, and immune response in C. elegans.

Want some of the details? You can read some of her work in Nature Communications.

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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.

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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