So many good things have happened recently, that I need to share this post with an exclamation mark after each sentence!
MaryGracy Antony, Marisol Fermin Flores and Jacqueline Valentino won 3rd prize at the 2023 College of Science and Engineering (COSE) Showcase in the Biological 2 section for their poster presentation: “Antibiotic Resistance and Plasmids”!
Phuong Phan will pursue a PharmD degree at UCSF starting Fall 2023!
Phelan Glenn will continue her research journey with UCLA’s Interdepartmental PhD Program in Neuroscience for Fall 2023. Upon transferring to San Francisco State University, Phelan developed a passion for combining in vitro research with in silico analysis. After learning about techniques to study Alzheimer’s disease with Dr. Pennings, Phelan has decided to dedicate her research skills to studying the molecular and biochemical processes that underpin Alzheimer’s Disease at UCLA!
MaryGracy Antony is going to UC Riverside and will join the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics (GGB) PhD Program!
Fayeeza Shaikh and Aleyna Isik are going to do an internship at Genentech this summer!
Marisol Flores’ abstract got accepted to present a poster at the SACNAS’s NDiSTEM Conference!
MaryGracy Antony got an Agents of Change (AoC) Fellowship!
Ninette Westendorff got an SEO fellowship for the next academic year!
Erica Tate will spend her summer at UCSF for the LCOE Aspiring Physician Program. She also accepted the VIR Biotechnology STEM Scholarship (BSS) and will continue doing research in the CoDE Lab!
Meris Johnson-Hagler, Jameel Ali and Kristiene Recto got abstracts accepted at SMBE in Italy!
2022 Summer Research Associate Evan Ho will be starting a Ph.D. program at UC-Santa Cruz in Fall 2023!
MaryGracy Antony, Lorena Benitez-Rivera and Meris Johnson-Hagler won a Graduate Student Distinguished Achievement Award!

