April 11th, 2025: Bre successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations, Bre!
March 6th, 2025: Congratulations to Gloria and Ricardo on receiving AChemS Diversity Travel Fellowships!
February 13th, 2025: Congratulations to Damia on receiving honorable mention in the Broad Stem Cell Center's 2024 microscopy image and video contest for her image "Dreaming of Feet." December 23rd, 2024: Navonil's paper on carbon dioxide sensing in S. stercoralis was published in Current Biology.
December 17th, 2024: Congratulations to Ricardo on becoming an Edward A. Bouchet scholar!
December 11th, 2024: Congratulations to Bre on receiving the S.C. Rittenberg Award from MIMG!
September 20th, 2024: Congratulations to Bre on receiving the Jules Brenner Scholar's Achievement Award from the MBI!
September 20th, 2024: Congratulations to Damia on receiving a Best Poster Award at the 2024 MBI retreat!
September 1st, 2024: Congratulations to Damia on receiving an F31 Predoctoral NRSA Award!
June 5th, 2024: Ruhi and Astra's paper on a method for generating stable transgenic lines in S. stercoralis was published in G3.
April, 14th, 2024: Matthew's review on astacin metalloproteases in human-parasitic nematodes was published in Advances in Parasitology.
February 23rd, 2024: Congratulations to Damia on receiving an AChemS Diversity Travel Fellowship!
February 7th, 2024: Navonil's paper on the neurogenetic mechanisms of valence encoding in the C. elegans CO2 circuit was published in G3.
November 27th, 2023: Courtney and Ruhi's review on the skin-penetration behaviors of skin-penetrating nematodes, and Astra and Damia's paper on a workflow for community-driven manual curation of the Strongyloides genome, were published in Phil Trans R Soc B.
November 9th, 2023: Congratulations to Damia on receiving Best Talk 4th place at the SCEP meeting!
November 7th, 2023: Michelle's chapter on Strongyloides anatomy was published in WormAtlas.
September 22nd, 2023: Congratulations to Ricardo on receiving 2nd place in the MIMG poster competition!
September 14th, 2023: Congratulations to Patricia on receiving an Eiserling/Lengyel Teaching Excellence Award from the MBI!
August 7th, 2023: Congratulations to Cindy and Ava on receiving a URSP Fellowships!
July 1st, 2023: Congratulations to Matthew on receiving a Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) Training Grant award!
July 1st, 2023: Congratulations to Gloria on receiving a Microbial Pathogenesis Training Grant (MPTG) award!
June 28th, 2023: Congratulations to Bre on receiving an F30 Predoctoral NRSA Award!
June 28th, 2023: Congratulations to Damia on receiving a Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) Training Grant award again this year!
June 21st, 2023: Congratulations to Ricardo on receiving a DeLill Nasser travel award from the Genetics Society of America!
June 8th, 2023: Congratulations to Bre on receiving a Whitcome Fellowship!
May 20th, 2023: Congratulations to Ava on receiving a SACNAS Travel Award!
May 20th, 2023: Congratulations to Bre on receiving the Mitsuo Takasugi travel award from MIMG!
May 9th, 2023: Elissa received a UCLA Life Sciences Excellence in Research Award.
May 5th, 2023: Courtney successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. McClure!
May 1st, 2023: Congratulations to Ava on her acceptance into the UCSF SRTP Summer Research Program!
May 1st, 2023: Congratulations to Aracely on her acceptance into the Penn State Big Ten SROP!
May 1st, 2023: Navonil's paper on the CO2 microcircuit of C. elegans dauers was published in PNAS.
April 18th, 2023: Congratulations to Gloria and Bre on winning first place for their elevator pitches at the "Learning the Art of Science Communication" meeting!
March 25th, 2023: Congratulations to Navonil on receiving a BRI Travel Award!
March 22nd, 2023: Congratulations to Damia on receiving Honorable Mention for her Ford Fellowship application!
March 15th, 2023: Congratulations to Bre on being named a Finalist for the Don Tucker Memorial Award from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences!
January 6th, 2023: Congratulations to Courtney on receiving a Graduate Student Travel Award to the 2023 Society of Toxicology Meeting!
January 3rd, 2023: Congratulations to Astra on starting her new job as an assistant professor at University of Washington!
November 14th, 2022: Congratulations to Courtney for receiving the Best Student Poster award at the ACT meeting!
November 7th, 2022: Congratulations to Ruhi on receiving an F32 Postdoctoral NRSA Award!
November 3rd, 2022: Congratulations to Bre on passing her oral qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!
October 27th, 2022: Congratulations to Cindy on being accepted into the i2URP program!
October 25th, 2022: Congratulations to Bre on receiving third place for Best Talk at the SCEP meeting!
October 17th, 2022: Congratulations to Ricardo on passing his oral qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!
September 30th, 2022: Congratulations to Patricia on passing her oral qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!
July 1st, 2022: Congratulations to Courtney on being selected for the ACT member spotlight and on receiving an ACT travel award!
June 16th, 2022: Patricia and Bre's review article on sensory behaviors of Strongyloides species was published in Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology.
June 15th, 2022: Congratulations to Bre on receiving a Dean's Excellence Award!
June 7th, 2022: Congratulations to Bre on receiving the award for Best Written Qualifying Exam from the Molecular Biology Interdepartmental PhD Program!
June 3rd, 2022: Congratulations to Bre on receiving the Best Case-Study Writing Award from the Ethics and Accountability in Biomedical Research Course!
June 1st, 2022: Congratulations to Gloria and Damia on receiving a Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) Training Grant award!
May 20th, 2022: Ivan will be starting grad school at UCSF this summer. Congratulations, Ivan, and best of luck at UCSF!
May 18th, 2022: Congratulations to Cindy and Ava on their acceptance into the URC-Sciences Summer Research Program!
May 5th, 2022: Congratulations to Courtney on passing her oral qualifying exam!
April 23rd, 2022: Astra's paper on the neural basis of heat seeking in S. stercoralis was published in Current Biology.
April 6th, 2022: Congratulations to Aracely on her acceptance into the MARC program!
April 4th, 2022: Congratulations to Ivan on receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! And congratulations to Ricardo and Damia on receiving NSF Honorable Mention!
March 22nd, 2022: Congratulations to Ricardo on receiving a Ford Foundation Fellowship!
December 10th, 2021: Congratulations to Aracely on receiving a URFP Award! November 18th, 2021: Congratulations to Ava and Cindy on receiving CARE Fellowships!
October 7th, 2021: Michelle's paper on how to make transgenic and knockout Strongyloides was published in JoVE.
October 7th, 2021: Ivan's paper on parasitic nematode - bacteria interactions was published in BMC Biology.
June 15th, 2021: Congratulations to Ivan and Elisa on their graduation!
June 6th, 2021: Congratulations to Astra on receiving the 2021 Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Award!
June 6th, 2021: Congratulations to Ivan on receiving the Frederick A. Eiserling Award!
June 3rd, 2021: Congratulations to Navonil on receiving the 2021 Sydney Finegold Postdoctoral Award!
May 27th, 2021: Congratulations to Ivan on receiving the Dean's Prize at the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase!
April 29th, 2021: Astra's paper on the Wild Worm Codon Adapter was published in G3.
April 22nd, 2021: Congratulations to Elisa on her acceptance into Harvard’s PiN post-bac program!
April 6th, 2021: Astra's paper on the Strongyloides RNA-seq Brower was published in G3.
November 16th, 2020: Congratulations to Ivan on receiving the first place poster award at LSMRCE and an oral presentation award at ABRCMS!
November 3rd, 2020: Congratulations to Astra on receiving a 2020 Arnold Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Award!
July 10th, 2020: Spencer's paper on chemosensation in threadworms and hookworms was published in PNAS.
May 22nd, 2020: Elissa received a 2020 Faculty Mentor Award.
May, 2020: Congratulations to Ivan on his acceptance into the Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program!
March 2nd, 2020: Congratulations to Elisa and Ivan on their acceptance into the Rockefeller SURF Program!
February 20th, 2020:Congratulations to Elisa on her acceptance into the Stanford ADVANCE Undergraduate Institute!
January 15th, 2020: Congratulations to Astra on winning the M. John Pickett for MIMG Postdoctoral Scholars!
November 7th, 2019: Ivan was accepted into the i2URP program. Congratulations, Ivan! October 30th, 2019: Congratulations to Astra on receiving second place for best talk at the SCEP meeting!
October 11th, 2019: Navonil's review on carbon dioxide sensation in nematodes was published in Parasitology.
August 1st, 2019: We received a new R01 to study thermosensation in skin-penetrating nematodes.
June 19th, 2019: We received a new R01 to study chemosensation in skin-penetrating nematodes.
June 14th, 2019: Navonil received a Postdoctoral NRSA. Congratulations, Navonil!
June 14th, 2019: Congratulations to Leopoldo on his graduation!
April 12th, 2019: Elisa and Ivan were accepted into the MARC Program. Congratulations, Elisa and Ivan!
April 12th, 2019: Feli received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Feli!
January 16th, 2019: Sophie and Kristen's paper on CO2 response valence during starvation was published in PNAS.
November 28th, 2018: Congratulations to Astra on receiving the award for best talk at the SCEP meeting!
October 29th, 2018: Elisa and Ivan were accepted into the CARE Fellows Program. Congratulations, Elisa and Ivan!
October 26th, 2018: Astra's review on host seeking in parasitic nematodes was published in IJP: Drugs and Drug Resistance.
October 15th, 2018: Astra's review on thermosensation in parasitic nematodes was published in Neuroscience Letters.
September 7th, 2018: Spencer defended his thesis! Congratulations, Spencer!
July 3rd, 2018: Astra's paper on the thermosensory behaviors of skin-penetrating nematodes was published in Current Biology.
June 15th, 2018: Congratulations to Wendy on her graduation!
May 23rd, 2018: Wendy received the Dean's Prize at Research Poster Day. Congratulations, Wendy!
April 4th, 2018: Taylor received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Taylor!
December 14th, 2017: Manon defended her thesis! Congratulations, Manon!
November 30th, 2017: Feli's paper on the olfactory behaviors of H. polygyrus was published in PLoS Pathogens.
October 10th, 2017: Spencer's paper on CRISPR/Cas9 in Strongyloides was published in PLoS Pathogens.
September 11th, 2017: Manon's paper on CO2 response valence was published in Current Biology.
July 27th, 2017: Michelle received a lab safety award from EH&S! Congratulations, Michelle, and thank you for all of your hard work as our lab's safety officer!
June 20th, 2017: Sophie defended her thesis! Congratulations, Sophie!
June 15th, 2017: Congratulations to Emily, Feli, and James on their graduation!
May 24th, 2017: Feli received the Dean's Prize at Research Poster Day. Congratulations, Feli!
March 19th, 2017: James and Ryo's paper on the olfactory behaviors of the mushroom fly Drosophilafalleni and its nematode parasite Howardula aoronymphium was published in Journal of Chemical Ecology.
December 16th, 2016: Wendy received a URFP award. Congratulations, Wendy!
September 23rd, 2016: Sophie's review on olfactory circuits and behaviors of nematodes was published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
August 15th, 2014: Spencer received a Whitcome Predoctoral Training Grant. Congratulations, Spencer!
August 14th, 2014: Michelle, Spencer, Ryo, and Anastassia's paper on odor-driven host seeking in skin-penetrating nematodes was published in PLoS Pathogens.
June 13th, 2014: Congratulations to Anastassia, Arezoo, Jenny, and Joon on their graduation!
June 8th, 2014: Mayra's review paper on gas sensing in nematodes was published in Molecular Neurobiology.
May 14th, 2013: Jenny and Joon were awarded the Science Poster Day Dean's Prize, and Jenny was also awarded the Charles Buchanan Award. Congratulations, Jenny and Joon!
March 3rd, 2013: Jenny received the Special Merit Award at the UC LEADS Symposium. Congratulations, Jenny!
January 14th, 2013: Jenny was accepted into the HHMI EXROP program. Congratulations, Jenny!
October 26th, 2012: Joon and Jenny were accepted into the Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Program. Congratulations, Joon and Jenny!
