Bioscience Interns have spent 180+hrs over one semester in an internship at a local SF Bay Area lab. Students backgrounds vary from no science coursework prior to coming to the CCSF Biotechnology program to students with Bachelor's degrees in science or higher degrees from institutions outside the United States. All CCSF Bioscience Interns previously completed a Career Exploration in Biosciences course and presented a Career Exploration Poster at a prior CCSF Biosymposium.
Intern: Charlie Allen
Internship Lab: Marcucio Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Hanne (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: How the Mechanical Properties of Extracellular Matrix Influence Facial Morphology
Intern: Yingshan Bi
Internship Lab: Kornberg Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Wanpeng Wang (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: CRISPR Knock-In with Artificial Exons Using the ssDNA Drop-in Approach
Intern: Manuel Cardona
Internship Lab: Ou Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Manuel Soliño (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Investigating the Role of Retinal Ganglion Cells in Glaucoma
Intern: Annie Chu
Internship Lab: Agard Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Yanxin Liu (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: How viral protein Orf9b from SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human Tom70
Intern: Kenneth Fond
Internship Lab: Brain and Spinal Injury Center, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Nikolaos Kyritsis (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Assessment and Prediction of Chronic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury
Intern: Denis Galo
Internship Lab: Manoli Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Nerissa Hoglen (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Quantifying auditory brain stimulation in praire vole pair bonding using c-fos antibody staining
Intern: Lu Guo
Internship Lab: Turnbaugh Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Cecilia Noecker (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Genome Analysis of Eggerthella lenta
Intern: Shaila Hegde
Internship Lab: Huang Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Jiapei Chen (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Abnormal microglia – Etiology of several neuropsychiatric disorders
Intern: Brandon Ho
Internship Lab: Kriegstein Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Li Wang (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Cell-type specific changes during brain development in autism
Intern: Youree Kim
Internship Lab: DC3 Therapeutics
Internship Mentor: Sam Ayyagari and Dr. Eric Mabery
Poster: Isolation of Natural Killer Cells and Flow Cytometry for Cancer Related Research
Intern: Miko Mallari
Internship Lab: Wells Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Susanna Elledge and Dr. Jamie Byrnes (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellows)
Poster: Designing Novel BiTE Formats for Cancer Therapy
Intern: Nidhi Nair
Internship Lab: Hebrok Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Sudipta Ashe (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Creating Beta Cells from Stem Cells to Treat Diabetes
Intern: Zamira Nazirova Nasonkin
Internship Lab: Andino Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Patrick Dolan (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Evolution of RNA Viruses
Intern: Aliyah Peterson
Internship Lab: Turnbaugh Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Guthrie (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Characterization of Gut Enzyme PreTA
Intern: Jeffrey Rong
Internship Lab: Krummel Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. En Cai (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Tuning and Modifying T-Cell Activation through the Binding of Blocking Antibodies to Receptors and Ligands
Intern: Jelena Vukovic
Internship Lab: Roybal Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Camillia Azimi (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Engineering Regulatory and Primary T Cells to Simultaneously Express Stablizing/Immunosuppressive Payloads and Hybrid SynNotch CAR Receptors
Stem Cell Interns have spent 9 months full time in an internship at a local SF Bay Area lab. Prior to their internships each student completed the CCSF Stem Cell Technology Certificate.
Intern: Alex Aycinena
Stem Cell Internship: Tenaya Therapeutics
Project Title: Bioenergetics, Metabolic Consumption & Maturity of iPSC-Cardiomyocytes Cultured in Fatty Acid Rich Media
Intern: Úna Chan
Stem Cell Internship: Finkbeiner Lab, Gladstone Institutes
Project Title: Co-culturing Neuromuscular Junctions from ALS Patient-Derived iPSCs
Intern: Gigi Gunn-Graffy
Stem Cell Internship: Muench Lab, Vitalant Research Institute
Project Title: Dimethyl Sulfoxide: Reduced Concentrations Still Effective for Cryopreservation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Intern: Carmen Lai
Stem Cell Internship: McDevitt Lab, Gladstone Institutes
Project Title: Engineering a 3D Human Model of the Neuromuscular Circuit
Intern: Madeline Matia
Stem Cell Internship: Stem Cell Core, Gladstone Institutes
Project Title: Genome Engineering Using CRISPR Technology to Investigate SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Cardiomyocytes
Intern: Raul Morales
Stem Cell Internship: Kriegstein Lab, UCSF
Project Title: Cellular Stress in Cortical Organoids
Intern: Lisha Prakash
Stem Cell Internship: Tenaya Therapeutics
Project Title: Gain-of-Function High Throughput Screen for Target Discovery
Intern: Niloufar Ziari
Stem Cell Internship: Prosetta Biosciences
Project Title: Characterizing the Target of Anti- Rabies Drugs and their Mechanism of Actions.