Jacqueline Do has joined the lab as a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Bridges intern.

Haley Masters successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Investigating the mysteries of human choroid plexus development in varying physiological states using pluripotent stem cells.” She will be staying on in the Monuki lab for a while, wrapping up exciting experiments and writing papers.

Congratulations to Aarij Gora, Frances Goyokpin, Caren Yassa, and Keith Ray, all of whom now have received their Bachelor’s degrees!

Congratulations to Aarij, Frances, and Erfan Zolfaghari for being awarded Excellence in Research in Biological Sciences for their work in our lab!

Congratulations to Aarij, Frances, Erfan, Caren, Ashley Nguyen, and Juslyn Chan for successful presentations at the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Symposium!

Sandra Girgis has joined the lab as a CIRM Bridges intern from California State University, Fullerton.

Sophia Estrada has joined the lab as a CIRM Bridges intern from Cal State Long Beach. Our former intern, John Dy, has now been hired as a Laboratory Assistant II to continue his work on stem cell derivations.

Sara Khan, Seong Won, Jessica Yeung, Cristina Martel, and Ben Tran were all awarded Excellence in Research for their independent projects, which they described in a paper and an oral poster presentation. Jessica was further honored with a Poster Award, and Seong was awarded the Robert Ernst Prize for Excellence in Biological Sciences.

Victoria has been accepted to the Experimental Pathology PhD program and will continue on our stem cell team. In July of 2020, she joined us a CIRM intern from Long Beach State University, and then continued in the lab as a Laboratory Assistant starting in July of 2021.

John Dy joined the stem cell team as a CIRM intern from California Sate University Long Beach on 9/13/21.

Yogesh Kushwaha joined our group as a Laboratory Assistant II. He will be working on culture and differentiation of human iPSCs.

Haley advanced to candidacy for a PhD in Developmental and Cell Biology!