News

2025

• Welcome to our rotation students: Ricardo Roure, Systems Biology; Hayden Hausman, Cell and Developmental Biology; and Islah Zareef-Mustafah.
• Welcome to our new Master’s graduate student George Contreras.
• Congratulations to Kaiser Atai on defending his Ph.D..
• Congratulations Cecilia Lei for winning a Dean’s Prize at Undergraduate Research Week.
• Congratulations to students who presented at Undergraduate Research Day: Clara Sullivan, Cecilia Lei, Nathan Siemers, Amy Kalteis, Prerana Kasanagottu.

2024

• Aaron Ambrus presented at the Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Department Retreat.
• Congratulations Mithun Mitra and Michael Chen on your selection for Life Science Best Paper award.
• Congratulations Eliana Bohn and Isabel Romero on winning a Science Dean’s Prize at Undergraduate Research Day
• Raymond Alvarado presented at ABCRMS and Cecilia Lei presented at the UCLA Metabolism Interest Group.
• Congratulations Beza Mesfin on winning the Biochemistry Queen’s Road Scholar award.

2023

• Congratulations to Oarteze Hunter for being selected for the UCLA Tumor Cell Biology Training Grant.
• Welcome new postdoctoral fellow Oarteze Hunter.
• Congratulations Rui Wang for winner Outstanding Senior award at Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Commencement.
• Congratulations Ronida Cheko on winning a Science Dean’s Prize at Undergraduate Research Day.
• Congratulations Namita Shyam on winning a Biomedical Research Summer Scholarship.
• Congratulations Amy Kalteis for being selected as a finalist for the Kristen Hansen award.
• Congratulations to our graduate researcher, Kaiser Atai, for presenting at the MBI poster session.
• Congratulations to Laurent Voisin on his fantastic presentation at the MCDB Retreat.

2022

• Dec 01 - Congratulations to our alumnus, Kevin Sun, on his acceptance to the St. Louis University School of Medicine!
• Sep 26 - Welcome to our rotation graduate student, Shania Day!
• Sep 21 - Congratulations to Kaiser on his amazing presentation at Cold Spring Harbor!
• Aug 23 - We celebrated Emanuel's terrific summer at our lab with an end-of-rotation lunch. Thank you so much Emanuel!
• May 26 - Vishvak and Chloe presented their posters in the CaSB poster session!
• May 25 - Congratulations to Vishvak, Sean, Gwen, and Abe on winning Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research awards!
• May 24 - Mason presented at the Research in Computational Molecular Biology Conference!
• May 24 - Many of our undergraduates presented for the UCLA Undergraduate Research Week. Congratulations to Hedi, Gwen, Chloe, Rui, Lorena, Sean, Alex, Vishvak, Jackson, Abe, and Dian!
• May 18 - Jackson presented at Geffen Advanced Research Showcase!
• May 17 - Hedi, Abe, and Sean presented at the MCDB poster day!
• Apr 25 - Abe Horillo, an undergraduate researcher, will be going to University of California, San Francisco for his graduate studies in Molecular Biology. Congratulations Abe!
• Apr 13 - Gwen, a senior undergraduate majoring in MCDB, will be working as a Research Associate with the Epstein lab under the Broad Institute’s Epigenomics Program starting this fall. Congratulations Gwen!
• Apr 09 - Jackson, a highschool student in our lab, will be going to the University of Pennsylvania for college this year. Congratulations Jackson!
• Apr 08 - Vishvak Subramanyam, an undergraduate researcher, will be working as a bioinformatics specialist at UCSF Mission Bay! Congratulations!
• Apr 04 - Congratulations to Corin for getting accepted into the “Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity at Imperial College, London” research exchange program!
• Apr 03 - Congratulations to our undergraduates Bhrugu, Ben, and James for acquiring exciting summer internship positions at Regeneron, Bionanogenomics, and Eli Lilly, respectively. We are so excited for you!
• Apr 02 - Mason, Sean, and Corin attended the 11th Annual Southern California Systems Biology Symposium. Mason presented his amazing work, "Decoding the non-coding RNA Regulatory Map in Cellular Senescence". And Sean presented his wonderful project, "Core Regulatory Circuits in Cell Cycle Arrest".
• Mar 24 - Congratulations to our undergraduates Eliana and Madison for being accepted into the Biomedical Research Minor Program!
• Mar 22 - ‌Znala and Kaiser did a great job at the MBIDP Recruitment Poster Session!
• Mar 21 - Congratulations to Peter Cullimore, a former undergraduate researcher, on his acceptance in the UCLA Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Ph.D. program in the Cell and Developmental Biology home area!
• Mar 17 - We celebrated Znala’s amazing rotation at our lab with an end-of-rotation lunch. Thank you Znala!
• Mar 02 - Chloe will be working as a Computational Biologist with the Translational Immunogenomics Lab at Dana Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard starting this summer! Congratulations Chloe!
• Feb 23 - Congratulations Kaiser on his amazing presentation at his midstream MBI committee meeting.
• Feb 19 - Welcome to the undergraduates who recently joined our lab: Neelaj Das, Cecilia Lei, Jason Nguyễn, Isabel Romero, Corin Ropp, Benjamin Stewart, Gulesin Tunali, and Madison Wade! We look forward to working with you!
• Feb 19 - Congratulations to Hedi Zappacosta on being a finalist for the Kristen Hanson Memorial Fund Scholarship.

2021

• Dec 15 -‌ We had an end of rotation lunch for Melissa. Thank you for a great quarter! We will miss you!
• Dec 10 - Congratulations to Abe Horillo on your Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
• Dec 06 - David and Laurent presented their work on autophagy in the Biological Chemistry Seminar!
• Dec 04 - Laurent gave a great talk at the 2021 UCLA MCDB Research Conference!
• Oct 29 - Congratulations Kirthana, Kenya, Kaiser, and Mithun on your publication in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology: "Is there a histone code for cellular quiescence?"
• Oct 01 - Coller lab submission selected for MCDB retreat T-shirt design
• Sep 10 - Congratulations Kaiser Atai for winning first place poster prize at the MBI Retreat!
• Sep 01 - Welcome to rotation graduate student, Cell and Developmental Biology student Melissa Emami!
• Aug 31 - Congratulations Adriana Corvalan on successfully defending your Ph.D. thesis!
• Aug 13 - Congratulations Mason Sparks for winning a Research Excellence Award as part of the BIG Summer Program!
• Jul 01 - Welcome to rotation student, Cell and Developmental Biology student Tyler Laws!
• May 28 - Congratulations to Kenya Bonitto, Michael Cheng, and Kevin Sun for receiving Dean's Prizes for Undergraduate Research!