Zena Del Mundo passed her advancement examination today after joining the Nicholas Lab in August 2022. This important milestone has been in the works for some time. We are very proud of Zena and her hard work to put together her presentation. We are so excited for her to continue developing her project and developing [...]
Read MoreGabby De Robles, a master's student in the Nicholas Lab, successfully defended ther Thesis titled "Analyzing inflammatory signatures of letrozole-induced mouse model of polycystic ovary syndrome." She now has a Master of Science in Mathematical, Computational, and Systems Biology from the University of California Irvine. Gabby crushed her defense with poise, clarity, and a crap [...]
Read MoreThree undergraduates from the Nicholas Lab: Carrie Jackson (mentored by Julio Angulo), Angie Rivera (mentored by Kiara Wiggins), and John Arriola (mentored by Gabriela Pacheco Sanchez) did an amazing job presenting thier summer research projects in oral and poster format. They will have the opportunity to present again at ABRCMS 2024 in Novebmer. Look out [...]
Read MoreJoin us in congratulating Zena Del Mundo on receiving a spot on the Institute for Immunology T32 Training Grant along with 4 other graduate students who submitted outstanding applications. Zena will be studying local pituitary immune responses. Zena Del Mundo (Nicholas lab) Shannon Geels (Marangoni lab) Karl Liboro (Pearlman lab) Zach Wagoner (Wagar lab) Hannah […]
Read MoreThis summer, two high school research interns as part of the Youth Science Fellowship Program (YSFP) learned flow cytometry and computational analysis in the Nicholas Lab. Lauren Gao mentored by Zena Del Mundo and Kartik Shivastava mentored by Dr. Gabriela Pacheco Sanchez learned a lot as part of the YSFP program and we hope to [...]
Read MoreWe congratulate Naveena Ujagar who passed her advancement examination. Naveena is the very first graduate student in the Nicholas Lab. Naveena joined the lab winter quater of 2022 and has been a force since first placed her hands on a flow cytometer. During her 2 hour examination titled "Metabolism of Inflammatory T helper 17 cells [...]
Read MoreThis Spring, three undergrads in the Nicholas lab presented thier research to complete the UCI School of Biological Sciences Excellence in Research Program. You can learn more about the program at https://excellence.bio.uci.edu/. Davina Trinh, Uyen-Vy Le, and Sizhe Wang all wrote research reports and defended thier research in front of UCI BioSci Faculty during a [...]
Read MoreCongratulations to Trupti Sriram on receving the UROP 2022 Research Experience Fellowship. This amazing undergrad in our lab not only is making progress on a cool project but is also a clinical coordinator for the human blood samples she processes and uses in her experiments. We and her graduate student mentor, Naveena Ujagar, are extremely […]
Read MoreSo many things have happened in the Nicholas Lab Over the Summer. So let’s catch everyone up. Funding – Congratulations to Naveena Ujagar who was awarded a Diversity Supplement through NICHD! Congrats to the Nicholas lab who was awarded A New Innovator Award (DP2) through NIH NIAID worth $1.5 million! We’re ready to do some […]
Read MoreThe Nicholas Lab IACUC protocol has officially been approved. We can’t wait to get research up and running. This is a major step forward for the lab. We’re definitely gonna celebrate.
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