Congratulations to our recent graduates!
Diego Martinez and Andrea Guerra Chong recently graduated with their Bachelor of Science degrees from UCSD. While in the lab, Andrea was a part of the STARTneuro program and Diego was a part of the MADURA program. Congratulations to you both and we wish you success in your post-graduate careers!
Our talented undergraduate researcher, Diego, recently presented his work at the 2024 MADURA Research Showcase and Educational Pathways Meeting!
His poster is titled “Forced Circadian Desynchrony accelerates brain senescence in adult mice”. Diego has been a part of the Mentorship for Advancing Diversity in Undergraduate Research on Aging (MADURA) program since July of 2023 and he is graduating from UCSD with his B.S. this June!
We are excited to announce that our high school interns recently completed their internship with us as a part of the Biomed Project from the Lead the Way Program at University City High School!
Congratulations Mattias and Troy! We are so excited for you to attend UCSC and UCSB next year and wish you the best of luck with your studies.
We are excited to announce that Dr. Haylie Romero successfully defended her Neurosciences Graduate Program Dissertation and earned her Ph.D.!
Haylie’s thesis is titled “Spatial transcriptomic analysis of rhythmic gene expression across the brain in health, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease”. Congratulations Dr. Romero!
Congratulations to Daniel Whittaker for being granted a UCSD Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Research Education Component pilot award!
Daniel’s project will investigate gut-brain signaling in Alzheimer’s disease.