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UCLA MBI

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 Westwood, CA
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Joined September 2009
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Congratulations to #NASmembers Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun on winning the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Read about their groundbreaking findings: ow.ly/BZg250TFCRs
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Congratulations to the recipients of this year's Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science!!! Whoo Hoo, so proud of you Maymay, Miranda, Eric and Andrew!!!! 👏👏👏 #UCLAMBI #UCLAMBIDP #UCLA🐻💙💛
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Congratulations Joey, 2024 MBIDP Dissertation Year Award winner!!!!! 👏👏👏#UCLAMBIDP
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Join us for #UCLAMBIRunningClub 💙💛
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Im so proud and excited to report that our very own talented graduate student Maymay Mu is one of the recipients of this years 2024 Audree Fowler Fellowship in Protein Science Very well deserved honor! @BC_UCLA @UCLAMBI
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Meet our #JulesBrennerScholarsAchievementAward winners!!!!! Congratulations Breanna and Jonathan #UCLA #UCLAMBI #UCLAMBIDP Proud!!!!
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UCLA MBI sends congratulations to Grasiela Torres, Johnny Ji and Pablo Alvarez for Excellence in Teaching!!!!! #2024TeachingExcellenceAward #UCLAMBI #UCLAMBIDP #UCLAMBIRetreat2024
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Round of applause 👏👏👏 for our very own Damia Gonzalez Akimori of The Hallem Lab on her F31 Fellowship!!!! Congratulations Damia!!!
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Thrilled and honored to receive the UCLA MBI Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Award in recognition of excellence in postdoctoral research. 😊 #proteindesign #cryoEM #happy @UCLAMBI @uclachem
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Couldn't be more proud of @sarakamalei @UCLAQCBio @MicrobioUcla for her HHMI Gilliam Fellowship!!! It's neat that she is recognized for her science + background in one grant. Thanks to HHMI for promoting her science and for supporting underrepresented scientists 💪🏾
Sara Makanani (@sarakamalei) profile pictureSara Makanani@sarakamalei9 Jul 2024
I still can’t believe it, so excited to be a part of this community!
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The #UCLAMBIDP Community is extremely proud of our new #GilliamFellow award recipient!! Congratulations to our very own, Sara Makanani!!!! Sara has been awarded this year's HHMI Gilliam Fellowship!!! @HHMINEWS #2024GilliamFellowship
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Congratulations to HHMI Investigators Dominique Bergmann (@stanfordstomata) and Oliver Hobert who were selected as @EMBO Associate Members, an honor that celebrates research excellence and outstanding achievements in the life sciences. embo.org/press-releases/outs…
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Congrats to MBI Faculty member, Dr. Julia Mack on her latest publication, showing how blood flow protects against vascular inflammation!!!
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April Pyle@apyle2 Nov 2023
Take a look at our recent work just out @NatureCellBio So excited it’s finally out! Thank you to everyone who worked on this project over many years to make this beautiful story! Very proud of all the hard work! Congrats @Mic_Hicks and all! nature.com/articles/s41556-0…
Regenerating human skeletal muscle forms an emerging niche in vivo to support PAX7 cells

Regenerating human skeletal muscle forms an emerging niche in vivo to support PAX7 cells

Nature Cell Biology - Hicks et al. report that human regenerating myofibres expressing ACTC1 substantially contribute to supporting PAX7+ skeletal muscle progenitor cells.

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Sarah C.P. Williams (@sarahcpwilliams) profile pictureSarah C.P. Williams@sarahcpwilliams2 Nov 2023
Researchers led by @apyle of @UCLAstemcell & @Mic_Hicks are paving the way toward stem cell therapies to regenerate muscle. The team, reporting in @NatureCellBio, discovered how to make stem cells persist in muscle for months & repair injuries. For @UCLA: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/a…
Stem cell research paves way toward regenerating skeletal muscle

Stem cell research paves way toward regenerating skeletal muscle

UCLA researchers have made headway using muscle stem cells to regrow damaged muscle in mice.

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Recent publication ! Hilary Coller, Mithun Mitra, and Michael Cheng Pan-cancer landscape of epigenetic factor expression predicts tumor outcome nature.com/articles/s42003-0… uclahealth.org/news/ai-model…
Pan-cancer landscape of epigenetic factor expression predicts tumor outcome

Pan-cancer landscape of epigenetic factor expression predicts tumor outcome

Communications Biology - A pan-cancer machine learning model using epifactor expression data for five cancer types and single-cell analysis of adult and pediatric tumors reveal expression patterns...

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Preprint Friday for our lab! Proteoform-selective inhibitors of caspase-2 identified by chemoproteomics and a Tev-activation small molecule screening assay. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Chemoproteomics identifies proteoform-selective caspase-2 inhibitors

Chemoproteomics identifies proteoform-selective caspase-2 inhibitors

Caspases are a highly conserved family of cysteine-aspartyl proteases known for their essential roles in regulating apoptosis, inflammation, cell differentiation, and proliferation. Complementary to...

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Congratulations to MBI member, Dr. Arjun Deb, on his publication in the journal Science titled "Fibroblasts in heart scar tissue directly regulate cardiac excitability and arrhythmogenesis"! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Fibroblasts in heart scar tissue directly regulate cardiac excitability and arrhythmogenesis

Fibroblasts in heart scar tissue directly regulate cardiac excitability and arrhythmogenesis

Cardiac fibroblasts in scar tissue electrically couple with myocytes in vivo using gap junctional and ephaptic mechanisms.

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Elaine Hsiao, an MBI member, and Geoff Pronovost, a former @UclaMBIDP student, have published research indicating the significant impact of the gut microbiome during prenatal development. Their work holds promise for the future of prenatal healthcare. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/m…
A mother mouse needs a diverse gut microbiome to form a healthy placenta

A mother mouse needs a diverse gut microbiome to form a healthy placenta

If also true for humans, targeted microbiome improvements might help promote fetal health during pregnancy.

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I'm thrilled to share our latest work on designing imaging scaffolds to determine the structure of small proteins using cryo-EM! pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn…
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Congratulations to MBIDP student Patricia Mendez for receiving a 2023 Gilliam Fellowship!
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