Come join me at Spit Camp in April 2025!

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Want to know how to leverage non-invasive salivary bioscience into your research?  Want to collect biospecimens OUTSIDE of the lab and without a phlebotomist? Come join me in this specialized and comprehensive crash course next month!

Spit Camp 2025 – Spring – Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research

Description: Intensive 2-Day Workshop in Salivary Bioscience

Spit Camp is an intensive two-day workshop that combines lecture/didactic and hands-on laboratory training. There is a focus on the theoretical perspectives of salivary bioscience, use of oral fluid as biological specimens, practical aspects of sample handing, collection, study design, and the basics of salivary immunoassays. The laboratory component includes hands-on, supervised training on sample processing, salivary immunoassay and kinetic reaction assays, as well as learning basic wet-lab procedures.

Next Camp Date: April 15 – 16, 2025
Fee: $1430 per person

Our lab’s 2024 year in review

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2024 Year in Review

A call to leverage a health equity lens to accelerate human neuroscience research. 
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/integrative-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnint.Rebello & Uban 2024
PDF: 2023.1035597/full

Expert commentary in LAist: More infants in OC are getting exposed to harmful substances, report finds.
Link: https://laist.com/news/education/early-childhood-education-pre-k/more-infants-in-oc-are-getting-exposed-to-substances-report-finds

Associations between perinatal risk and physical health in pre-adolescence in the ABCD Study, Adise et al., 2024.
Link:   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-024-03288-z
PDF: Adise et al 2024

The implications of socioeconomic factors on salivary bioscience methodological variables in a large pediatric multi-site study.
Link:  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1088043/full PDF: Mariko & Uban

FASD Podcast 
Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQJbh_leomU

Expert commentary in Healthline.  Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Link: https://www.healthline.com/health/sudden-infant-death-syndrome

Congratulations Dr. Mariko on graduating with your PhD!
Link: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6fw2q17t

Congratulations Associate Professor Uban on receiving tenure!