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  • May 6, 2025

Congratulations to Katherine Thompson-Peer for receiving the Tom Angell fellowship from the UCI Graduate Division, and the Committee Spotlight award from the UCI Women’s Center for Excellence!

The Tom Angell Fellowship award is awarded annually and intended to honor Tom Angell’s contributions as the UCI Graduate Counselor to graduate student wellness and retention. This award is open to graduate students, faculty, and…

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  • April 3, 2025

Congratulations to John Lowengrub, Devon Lawson, and Arthur Lander for receiving an interdisciplinary program project grant!

The interdisciplinary program project grant, “Tipping points in cancer” has been funded for five years by the National Cancer Institute and awarded to John Lowengrub, Devon Lawson, and Arthur Lander. The grant starts today, and…

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  • March 18, 2025

Congratulations to Sydney Prange for earning second place in the UCI Grad Slam Competition!

Congratulations to Sydney Prange, a graduate student in the lab of Prof. Katie Thompson-Peer. Sydney Prange earned second place in the UCI Grad Slam, a competition that showcases and awards the best three-minute research presentations…

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  • March 12, 2025

Exciting research from Max Plikus and Raul Ramos has identified a novel skeletal tissue ‘lipocartilage’ with resilient properties that could aid tissue reconstruction!

Abstract:

Conventionally, the size, shape, and biomechanics of cartilages are determined by their voluminous extracellular matrix. By contrast, we found that multiple murine cartilages consist of lipid-filled cells called lipochondrocytes. Despite resembling adipocytes, lipochondrocytes were molecularly…

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  • February 19, 2025

New paper from Olivier Cinquin on AI and bioinformatics!

Olivier Cinquin has published a new paper in Briefings in Bioinformatics on the pitfalls and possibilities of using large language models like ChatGPT to help with bioinformatic analysis.

 

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) leverage factual knowledge from pretraining….

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  • October 30, 2024

A collaborative study by Dr. Pablo Lara-Gonzalez and Dr. Lee Bardwell is published at the Journal of Cell Biology!

Congratulations to Dr. Pablo Lara-Gonzalez and Dr. Lee Bardwell!

The Lara-Gonzalez lab, in collaboration with the Bardwell lab, recently published amanuscript titled “Cyclin B3 is a dominant fast-acting cyclin that drives rapid earlyembryonic divisions” in…

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  • October 21, 2024

Congratulations to Laurence Seabrook and Melissa Campos from Albrecht Lab for publishing a paper on methylarginine targeting chimeras for lysosomal degradation of intracellular proteins!

Laurence Seabrook and Melissa Campos, from Lauren Albrecht’s lab, recently published a paper, “Methylarginine targeting chimeras for lysosomal degradation of intracellular proteins”.

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A paradigm shift in drug development is the discovery of small molecules that harness…

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  • September 3, 2024

Congratulations to Mia Brantley for receiving a Rose Hills Foundation Science and Engineering Fellowship!

Congrats to Mia Brantley! The Rose Hills Foundation Science and Engineering Fellowship is intended to recognize and reward our most meritorious graduate students who are pursuing a Ph.D. orMaster’s degree in the life or natural…

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  • June 24, 2024

Congratulations to Vini Duarte for a paper on dendrite injury detection and regeneration being published!

Vini Duarte from Katherine Thompson-Peer’s lab recently had a paper, “Calcium plays an essential role in early-stage dendrite injury detection and regeneration”, published!

Abstract: Dendrites are injured in a variety of clinical conditions such as traumatic…

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  • June 6, 2024

Congratulations to Pablo Lara Gonzales and Fangyuan Ding for receiving the Hellman Fellowships!

The Hellman Fellowships are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 85 UC Irvine Society of Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund was established here. Fangyuan Ding,…

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Department of Developmental
and Cell Biology

2011 Biological Sciences III
Irvine, CA 92697-2300

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