The Mentorship Committee is holding an informal panel on Zoom about applying to the NIH F30 fellowship. It will be held virtually on Zoom next Tuesday 9/19, from 7-8PM. We are looking forward to hearing advice from students who were awarded the fellowship recently. All are welcome to attend, whether you are applying this year or not. […]

Mentor: Dr. Valerie Arboleda “From Germline to Somatic: ASXL1’s Multifaceted Role in Development and Disease” Date: Monday, April 22, 2024 Time: 10:00am Location (Hybrid Format): Boyer 159 Zoom Link: https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/6839347146

Dissertation Defense PhD Candidate: Charltien Long Mentor: Sotiris Masmanidis Title: Physiological constraints on the rapid dopaminergic modulation of striatal reward activity Date/Time: Thursday, May 2 at 2:30pm In-Person Location: Center for Health Sciences (CHS) 23-105

Dissertation Title: Modeling the cell population dynamics that underlie myeloid bias in early hematopoiesis Date: Friday, May 10th, 2024 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Location: Boyer 130 Zoom Meeting ID: 970 2034 2060 Passcode: 458595

Dissertation Defense PhD Candidate: Nicholas Cho Mentor: Benjamin Ellingson Title: Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Tools to Characterize Molecular Subtypes and Malignant Transformation of Human IDH-Mutant Gliomas Date/Time: Thursday, May 23 at 11:00am In-Person Location: CHS Bel Air Room (17-323) Via Zoom: https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/97647774538 

Dissertation Title: Structure-based design of diagnostics and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases Mentor: David Eisenberg, D Phil Date: Friday, May 24th, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Location: Boyer 159 and Zoom Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95759145012 Zoom Meeting ID: 957 5914 5012

Dissertation Defense PhD Candidate: Charles Schleifer Mentor: Carrie Bearden Title: Mapping Brain Development with Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Clinical and Genetic Neuropsychiatric Risk Syndromes Date/Time: Thursday, May 30 at 11:00am In-Person Location: Biomedical Sciences Research Building (BSRB), Room 154

Dissertation Defense PhD Candidate: Lauren Uchiyama Mentor: Peter Tontonoz, MD, PhD Title: Calsyntenin-3b promotes ketogenesis through organelle contact sites in hepatocytes