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Congratulations to Savanna for presenting her poster

"AI-assisted iPSC quality assessment using deep learning and pre-trained vision models" at the UCSF Research AI Day on March 17, 2025.

Congratulations to Eliza for a fantastic oral presentation

UCSF Obesity & Diabetes Research Scientific Retreat 03-18-2025

Poster Presentation: Julia and Grace

Evaluating Hepatocyte Stellate Cell Crosstalk to Study the Progression of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Liver Disease at the CalTeach poster session, December 11, 2024. 

Welcome Daniel and Anmol

  Welcome to our two new UC Berkeley student interns who joined the lab in March 2025

Beth's new R21!

It's official! Beth received her second R21 from NIA entitled, "Changes in cardiometabolic tissue gene regulation and omics profiles with menopause." Huge congratulations Beth!!!

Eliza passes her quals!

Eliza has officially advanced to candidacy as a pre-doctoral student.

Yuanyuan presents at the MASH and Fibrosis Keystone Conference in Banff

Congratulations to Dr. Yuanyuan Qin who's abstract entitled, "TMEM55B deficiency alters lysosomal fatty acid trafficking and induces MASH" was selected for an oral presentation on March 6, 2024 at the MASH and Fibrosis Keystone Conference in Banff, CA.

Marisa appointed as the Director of Lab Research for Oakland

 

Samina presents at the Bay Area Stanford Regenerative Medicine Conference

Huge congrats to Samina who was selected for an oral presentation of her SSRP project at the Bay Area Stanford Regenerative Medicine Conference for Students held on September 23, 2023. 

Medina lab receives new NIH award

The Medina received a 2-year R56 from the NIH entitled, "TMEM55B as a molecular determinant of NAFLD" based on the tremendous efforts by Yuanyuan and her students!