Lab News

2023

12.20.23 Congratulations to Shally for receiving the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Predoctoral Fellowship through the Institute for Biology of Stem Cells (IBSC) here at UCSC! And thanks to the UCSC IBSC for the support! We're very excited about Shally's proposed projects studying fibroblast-epithelial interactions in lung organoid models. 

11.20.23 Daniel Savala, an MCD PhD student, started his rotation in the lab today. Welcome Daniel!

11.6.23 We are excited to have Nikhil start as research specialist today! Nikhil has been working in the lab as an undergrad student since the lab started back in the summer of 2021. We're very happy that he decided to stay on in the lab.

10.2.23 Mike Borja and Juste Simanauskaite, both MCD PhD students, started their rotations today. Welcome Mike and Juste!

10.2.23 We are very excited that Mark Mora has joined our lab as a research specialist. Welcome Mark!

9.7.23 Today was Rachel's last day in the lab as an undergraduate researcher. We're sad that you're leaving but know that you'll do great things at UCLA. Stay in touch!

8.31.23 We are all very excited to hear that we received funding for an R01 through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)! Over the next several years, we'll be studying how fibroblasts regulate the development of post-viral disease after severe influenza virus infection. There is so much to learn about how these cells regulate responses during and after respiratory viral infection.

8.14.23 Shally gave an excellent poster presentation at the 2023 Gordon Research Conference on Lung Development, Injury, and Repair in Waterville Valley, NH. Lots of great progress on defining the fibroblast reponses to viral infection in different respiratory compartments.

07.29.23 Today was Charles' last day as a research specialist in the lab. We're sad to see him go but are excited that he'll be joining the MCD PhD program here at UCSC in the fall. Thanks for all that you've done to get the lab going!

07.1.23 Congratulations to Summer for receiving a T32 Training Grant in MCD Biology! 

06.16.23 Congrats to Abram, Farah, and Nikhil on their graduation! Thank you all for your enthusiasm and hard work over the last two years. We will miss you all but know that you're moving on to exciting opportunities.

06.07.23 Congratulations to the Cortez Lab on their paper on how ID01 regulates permissivity to astrovirus infection (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1933021923000429). Our own Summer Jordan is a co-author!

05.26.23 Congratulations to Summer for passing her Qualifying Exam! She has some great plans for figuring out how lung fibroblasts turnover following influenza infection and what the consequences are for disease.

05.23.23 David attended the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and gave a short talk at the scientific symposium "Immunology in context: mechanisms and biomarkers that determine viral disease severity." He had a wonderful time catching up with collaborators and seeing friends from St. Jude.

05.09.23 Congratulations to Shally for passing her Qualifying Exam! She is proposing some exciting work on the inflammatory responses of different fibroblast types following influenza infection.

2022

12.04.22 The Boyd Lab (Summer, Rachel, Farah, David, and Abram) attended the BayViro Symposium hosted by the Bay Area Virus Network at UCSF. This was a wonderful event. Thank you for hosting!

10.27.22 Abram presented his work on characterizing the phenotypes of primary fibroblasts cultured in vitro at the SACNAS Conference in Puerto Rico!

10.21.22 Farah presented her work on age-dependent fibroblast responses to influenza infection at the National Symposium for Undergraduate Research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. What a great opportunity!

10.16.22 David attended the ASMB Fibroblast Workshop at the University of Virginia. He loved being back at his alma mater and hearing about so much great work on fibroblasts.

08.16.22 Abram presented at the UCSC STEM Diversity Summer Research Symposium

6.30.22 Abram Rodriguez and Rachel Levy join the lab as undergraduate research assistants.

3.21.22 Summer Jordan and Shally Saini are the first Graduate students to join the Boyd Lab.

3.11.22 PBSE Ph.D. students present at the Rotation #3 poster session.

1.24.22 Natalie Pedicino (MCD) and Shally Saini (MCD) start their rotations in the lab.

1.10.22 Charles Winterbottom joins the lab as a junior research specialist.

2021

11.15.21 First Graduate rotation students, Summer Jordan (MCD) and Sydney Smyer (METX), begin their rotations in the lab.

8.10.21 Farah Abou-Taleb, Nikhil Marudai, and Jimmy Gomez join the lab as undergraduate research assistants.