We seek to understand how the organization of the nucleus is established, specialized across cell types, and maintained over time to influence cellular identity.
Mentorship Development:
11/2019 - Equity and Inclusion in the Lab (2 hours)
11/2020 - Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab
5/2021 - Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
1/2022 - Equity Based Interview Practices
We study tumor evolution, drug sensitization and oncogene network alterations in patients in order to improve precision medicine therapies for hormone-related and genitourinary cancers.
Mentorship Development:
5/2021 - Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
6/2022 - Career Conversations
Systems approaches to understand immune responses, particularly to cancer
Mentorship Development:
3/3/20 Promoting Student Mental Health:A Presentation and Discussion (Staff and Faculty)
11/10/20 Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab
12/8/20 Setting Expectations with a "Welcome to the Lab' Letter (Parts 1 and 2)
Normal and malignant blood cell development, including break of immune tolerance (autoimmunity) and blood cell cancer (leukemia), with a focus on transcriptional regulation.
Mentorship Development:
12/12/19 ACRA: Setting Training Expectations for Trainees on the Academic Career Track (1.5 hours)
3/3/20 Promoting Student Mental Health:A Presentation and Discussion (Staff and Faculty)
3/3/20 Promoting Student Mental Health: Faculty Workshop (Faculty only)
4/23/20 Effective Strategies for IDPs
11/10/20 Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab
2/18/21 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
We are molecularly modifying pluripotent stem cell lines to create non-immunogenic cells that are protected from post-transplant rejection without affecting the general immune system.
4/2019 - Acknowleding and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab (Mission Bay)
2/2021 - Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
6/2022 - Career Conversations
11/2022 - Faculty Development Program: Supervising People Who Aren't You: Mentoring/Managing Different Work Styles
We develop and apply innovative approaches, such as CRISPR-based functional genomics, in human iPSC-derived neurons and glia and mouse models to elucidate mechanisms and therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases.
Mentorship Development:
4/12/19 Acknowleding and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab (Mission Bay)
4/30/20 Mental Health in a Pandemic: Q&A for Faculty
6/10/20 Tools and Tips for Virtual Learning
10/22/20 Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty and Staff
9/11/20 Mentoring Across Differences
9/24/20 DEI Champions Training
