Lisa, Suhas, Zach, and Jenna traveled to Boston for a Wellcome Leap HOPE program meeting. It was a fantastic meeting – very exciting to see the incredible progress from several labs and lots of fun to catch up with friends and collaborators.

Congratulations to postdocs Jenna Kastenschmidt and Suhas Sureshchandra for receiving Society of Leukocyte Biology trainee travel awards! They did a great job representing the lab at the annual meeting in Hawaii. We also celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving at Lisa’s house – how the lab and families have grown over the past year!

The Wagar lab welcomes a flurry of trainees to the lab for the new academic year. A warm welcome to David Bojorquez (CMB rotation student), Kyle Batucal (Bio199 CS student), and Tim Yates (bioinformatics programmer).

Congratulations to (now alum) Aviv Benchorin for graduating! Aviv completed his BSc in Computer Science. We’re grateful for Aviv’s contributions to the lab (thoughtful analysis strategies for datasets of epic proportions) that culminated in a successful honors thesis project.

We finally got our own 10X controller. Thx Zach for being a great backdrop to show off those GEMs!

Lisa, Suhas, and Zach traveled to Atlanta for the bi-annual Wellcome Leap HOPE PI meeting. It was great to meet all the performers in person and to catch up with our amazing collaborators. Color coordination on point.

Graduate student Mahina Mitul received first prize for her oral presentation at the SoCal Flow Summit. Way to go Mahina!

‍Lisa received a finalist prize for the Michelson Philanthropies and Science Prize for Immunology. She was one of three recipients for the inaugural year. You can learn more about the related work from a free Keystone ePanel featuring the three winners and Lisa’s essay published in Science this month.

‍The Wagar lab welcomes postdoc Suhas Sureshchandra to the lab. Welcome Suhas!