Lab News


Summer 2023      Lab and friends at a BBQ at a local park – mosquitoes                                                stayed away this year!  Coincidence on the black T-shirts.

Summer 2023      Well done Dr. Tucker! Graduated and soon to start a new                                          and exciting Biotech job.

Summer 2023      Well done Sanzida for getting your Masters degree.

Summer 2023      Congratulations to all in the lab who worked                                                               on the new NTR paper. It is accepted to DMM. Great job!                                         Click here. Great collaborative effort and a big well done to                                     all – especially the undergrads Sophia Tran, Deena Khoury                                       and Sheida Eshghi.

Summer 2023      Congratulations to Kathleen Leon Parada (Luderer Lab)                                            and Tori Tucker for recognition of their support of our                                             outreach project, SoCal BioEYEs – at the Grad Gala evening. Also feature on DCB department website.

Spring 2023          Happy to report the graduation of Sophia Tran  and Craig                                       Sutkin – great Bio 199 students. You will be missed

Spring 2023         Congratulations to Sophia Tran, Bio 199 student in the lab                                     for winning the Robert Ernst Prize in the Biological Sciences                                   for her 2022-2023 Excellence in Research project.

Winter 2022/23  Our lab is excited to welcome two new Lab assistants –                                            Charley Wang and Arinnae Kurdian

Summer 2022     Two of our undergrads graduated – well done Sheida and                                         Marie.

Spring 2022       Finished our last class of SoCal BioEYEs for  this year – over                                    200 7th and 8th grade students participated.

Winter 2022      February – we started our first SoCal BioEYEs class.

Fall 2021            Our lab welcomes our latest graduate student, Sanzida                                             Afrin. We are all looking forward to working with you.

Summer 2021    After graduating in June, the lab welcomes back Deena                                             Khoury!

Spring 2021       Congratulations to Tori for getting a F31, winning a Graduate                                 Dean’s Excellence Fellowship and being the 2021 recipient of                                 the Edward Steinhaus Teaching Award recipient!

Spring 2021       Well done lab for recent publication in

Human Molecular Genetics.

Summer 2021   Lab will be attending the 16th International Zebrafish Conference