Andrew Pan & Eva Gillis-Buck

Andrew Pan (student)

"A little bubbly and a little brainy– Carbonic Anhydrase IV as a novel transporter of AAVs across the blood-brain barrier"

Timothy F. Shay et al. ,Primate-conserved carbonic anhydrase IV and murine-restricted LY6C1 enable blood-brain barrier crossing by engineered viral vectors.Sci. Adv.9,eadg6618(2023).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adg6618

Coaches: Andrew C. Yang, PhD and Elizabeth Crouch, PhD

Eva Gillis-Buck (student)

"Retrotransposons induce maternal erythropoiesis during normal pregnancy and after bleeding"

Phan, Julia, et al. "Retrotransposons are co-opted to activate hematopoietic stem cells and erythropoiesis." Science 386.6722 (2024): eado6836.

Coaches: Kyle Cromer, PhD and Serine Avagyan, MD, PhD

Moderator: Courtney Tamaki & Liz Arouge

Location: HSW-302, Parnassus & MH-1405, Mission Bay