Giraldez Lab News

Postdoc Curtis Boswell gave an oral presentation at the International Zebrafish Conference in Kyoto, Japan.

Postdoc Srikar Krishna gave an oral presentation at the RNA Society Annual International Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
PhD student Damir Musaev won a poster presentation prize at the RNA Society Conference.
Scott Youlten, Liyun Miao, and Valerie Tornini’s work investigating the developmental fate of zebrafish embryonic cells mutant for pioneer factors Nanog, Pou5f3, and Sox19b is now available as a preprint.

Postdoc Valerie Tornini was selected to participate in the prestigious Linton-Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute.
Scott Youlten, Liyun Miao, and Valerie Tornini’s work investigating the developmental fate of zebrafish embryonic cells mutant for pioneer factors Nanog, Pou5f3, and Sox19b is now available as a preprint.
PhD student Haejeong Lee gave an oral presentation at the 2nd Workshop on Codon Usage in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Srikar Krishna was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Cancer Society.
Damir Musaev and Maria Benitez defended their PhD theses. Congratulations Dr. Musaev and Dr. Benitez!
Our lab’s paper describing ORF-mediated decay is published in Cell Reports. Congrats to Damir and all other co-authors!
PhD student Ethan Strayer was named a fellow of the Joan and Tom Steitz RNA Fellows Program.

Postgraduate assistant Miguel Ángel Delgado Toscano was accepted to the EMBL International PhD Programme.
Goodbye Mark Pownall! He’s off to start his own lab as part of the UCSF Sandler Fellows Program.

Postdoc Caroline Hoppe was a selected participant at the Global Young Scientist Summit 2024 in Singapore.

Ella Callahan joins our lab as a postgraduate assistant.
Curtis Boswell and Caroline Hoppe’s work on GEARs (Genetically Encoded Affinity Reagents) is now available as a preprint.
Fiona Sievers was awarded a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) PhD fellowship.
Second year graduate students Fiona Sievers and Gal Jaschek passed their qualifying exams.
Ethan Strayer’s new preprint describing NaP-TRAP, a novel assay for measuring translation, is now available. This work was done in collaboration with lab alum Jean-Denis Beaudoin, now assistant professor at UConn.

Postdoc Valerie Tornini is named a 2023 STAT Wunderkind.
Postdoc Caroline Hoppe received the Best Poster Award at the EMBL Symposium “Seeing is Believing”.

All lab members participated in the annual Giraldez Lab Retreat – three full days of science and fun!
Goodbye Charles Vejnar! He’s off to a position at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Postdoc Alice Sherrard awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NICHD.
Postdoc Valerie Tornini named a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists.

Postdoc Valerie Tornini named a finalist for Proteintech’s Best Postdoc Mentor Award 2023.
Our lab’s paper describing Chromatin Expansion Microscopy (ChromExM) is published in Science. Congrats to Mark, Liyun, and all other co-authors!

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