November 9, 2017
…San Diego after a postdoctoral fellowship only three years ago, is part of a group of young faculty on campus whose out-of-the-box approach to solving research problems has allowed them to quickly gain recognition, academic prizes and funding. She’s also an example of another noteworthy campus trend—female scientists who, despite…
January 17, 2023
More than half a dozen scientists from Scripps Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center will be venturing to Antarctica for the 2022-23 field season.
May 13, 2021
…doctorado en microbiología en UC Davis. Completó su investigación postdoctoral en la Escuela de Medicina de Harvard antes de unirse a la facultad de UC San Diego en 2020.
October 3, 2019
…the Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers Fung mentored went on to lead bioengineering and biomedical engineering departments around the United States. Many have the same story: they heard Fung talk during a seminar and were instantly impressed. Often, they lingered after the talk and found that Fung was personable and…
May 2, 2019
…a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University before joining UC San Diego’s faculty in 1996. In her laboratory, Pogliano applies cell biological tools to understanding the design principles of bacterial cells, and to discover new antibiotics and develop diagnostics for multidrug resistant bacterial infections. Six years ago, she…
March 8, 2018
…research, mentored students and postdoctoral trainees and taught classes for 27 years. When he died in 2016, social media literally illuminated in his memory, with scientists around the world posting images of cells glowing in his honor. Tsien’s legacy lives on. His work forms the basis for untold numbers of…
February 5, 2024
Researchers from University of California San Diego have developed a new search tool to that can match microbes to the metabolites they produce with no prior knowledge, an innovation that could transform our understanding of both human health and the environment.
November 12, 2020
…San Diego as a postdoctoral researcher in 1971, training in the lab of biochemist Nathan Kaplan. There, she worked alongside a number of talented, eager scientists, including graduate student J. Craig Venter and fellow postdoc Jack Dixon. Venter went on to lead the effort to sequence the human genome. He…
June 10, 2021
…Biomedical Sciences in Fall 2020, Arakaki is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Taran Gujral’s lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. She is continuing to build on her graduate work, studying the cellular and molecular processes that contribute to cancer progression in a translation setting.
February 11, 2021
…mentorship of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty in science and medicine, hoping to create the next generation of leaders in solving the important infectious disease challenges facing the world. If you could share one of your biggest takeaways surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and/or the ongoing conversations around the…
