News

4.25.24 Alejandro is accepted into the California Alliance for Minority Programs (CAMP)!

4.5.24 Skar is accepted into the Post-bac program at Baylor College of Medicine!

4.1.24 Michelle joins the lab as an MCD PhD student!

3.25.24 Val attends the Hispanic-Serving Research University Alliance Summit in Arlington, TX

3.19.24 Nat, Jacob & Melanie present posters at BayViro, hosted by Stanford University 

3.7.24 Natalie becomes a UC-HSI-Doctoral Diversity Initiative Fellow through the IBSC!

3.2.24 Nat wins the UCSC-wide Grad Slam!

2.21.24 Alejandro Poot joins the lab!

2.8.24 Nat wins the UCSC PBSci Division Grad Slam!

2.7.24 Danny gets into his top grad school pick, way to go!

1.29.24 Christian Montiel (METX) begins rotating in the lab

1.24.24 Nicole Heredia-Osuna joins the lab!

1.2.24 Melanie Kirkpatrick enters the MCD M.S. program

12.16.23 Skar graduates! We are so proud and sad to see her go.

11.20.23 Michelle Pablo (MCD) begins rotating in the lab

11.16.23 Matteo is awarded a Koret Scholarship!

10.26.23 Val, Angelina, Skar, Danny & Matteo attend NDiSTEM Conference in Portland!

10.9.23 Daniel Savala (MCD) begins rotating in the lab

9.28.23 Matteo Anicetti joins the lab!

8.21.23 Angelina receives a travel award to SACNAS!

7.31.23 Melanie Kirkpatrick joins the lab as a Research Specialist

7.17.23 Val participates in the RAPID program at UCSD

6.24.23 American Society for Virology held in Athens, GA, Natalie receives a travel award and presents her first talk. Val presents in the Satellite Symposium!

6.20.23 Angelina Fernando starts her ACCESS summer research project in the lab

5.18.23 Natalie passes her Qualifying Exam!

5.12.23 Skar and Danny receive travel awards to SACNAS!

4.3.23 Samuel Hernandez, B.S. transitions to a Research Specialist and Val begins teaching BIOL 113 Principles of Epidemiology!

3.24.23 Val is awarded a Hellman Fellowship

1.28.23 Midwinter Conference of Immunologist at Asilomar, walk-up song

1.9.23 Val begins teaching BIOL 110K Introduction of Laboratory Research

12.1.22 Congrats to Natalie for being selected as a CITL Graduate Pedagogy Fellow!

11.14.22 UC-wide strike for fair contracts NOW

11.14.22 Samira Yitiz (MCD) and Devons Mo (METX) start their rotations in the lab

9.30.22 Art Marquez (MCD) started his rotation in the lab and Ben Rosales joins as a Research Specialist

9.13.22 Skar Lopez and Danny Cruz join the lab!

9.1.22 Jacob Gulman, B.S. transitions to a Research Specialist!

8.19.22 Val helps host the HSI-Doctoral Diversity Initiative Family Science Weekend

8.9.22 Dr. Rebecca DuBois (BME) receives a DEIA Mentorship Supplement to fund collaboration, mentorship, and cross-training in our labs!

7.27.22 Mucins in Health & Disease held in Utrecht, The Netherlands 

7.16.22 International Conference on Mucosal Immunology held in Seattle, WA

7.15.22 Ayaka's last day before starting nursing school next month. We are so proud, but also quite sad to see her go!

7.12.22 Notice of award for NIAID Supplement to Promote Research Continuity and Retention of K awardees

6.22.22 Gabby White starts her ACCESS summer research project in the lab

6.20.22 Natalie is awarded a competitive spot on the NIGMS T32 MCD training grant!

3.30.22 Natalie defended her Master's thesis! Big congrats!!!

3.21.22 Natalie joins the lab as the FIRST grad student

2.14.22 Ayaka Lopez joins the lab as a Research Specialist

2.10.22 First invited seminar at Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology

1.24.22 Summer Jordan (MCD) and Sydney Smyer (METX) begin their rotations in the lab!

11.15.21 First rotation students, Fatima Rizvi (METX) and Natalie Pedicino (MCD), start in the lab! 

8.19.21 Back from visit to Newberry Lab @ WUSTL,  funded by the Society for Mucosal Immunology Technique-Sharing Grant 

7.26.21 Notice of award for NIAID K22 "I got money in the bank..."

7.1.21 First day as an Assistant Professor