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Educational Trajectories and Health This is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study investigating education trajectories, the paths people take to complete their education, how it differs by sex, race/ethnicity, and family circumstances, and what the effect of different trajectories is on...

Recent publications Note: if you have difficulty accessing one of these papers, please contact skurtz@ucmerced.edu. Staadecker, M., Szinai, J., Sánchez-Pérez, P.A. et al. " The value of long-duration energy storage under various grid conditions in a zero-emissions future." Nat Commun 15, 9501 (2024)...

Hoyer lab research focuses on understanding immune dysfunction leading to disease. Our current projects involve: Host immunity to Coccidioides Impact of dust on climate, health and disease in San Joaquin Valley, CA.

Former Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars Alumni Dr. Nadia Delgadillo Miranda Current Position: Scientist at Amgen Dr. Susana Tejeda-Garibay Dr. Christi Turner Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow at City of Hope (Duarte, CA) ​​​ Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Group My research...

Spring 2024 Commencement Undergraduate end-of-year party (Spring 2023) Bobcat Day 2023 Commencement 2022. Erika Ramsey (undergrad in my lab), and Asa Bradman (Dept Chair) Commencement 2022. Sandy Rubio (undergrad in my lab, Outstanding Graduating Student 2022 Recipient) End of year lab dinner 2022...

35. Highly tunable magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy in Fe 3+-doped BaTiO 3 Bradford A. Barker, Nabaraj Pokhrel, Md Kamal Hossain, Katherine Inzani, Sinéad M. Griffin, Elizabeth A. Nowadnick Physical Review B 110, 224437 (2024) 34. Piezoelectricity in n=2 Ruddlesden-Popper ferroelectric oxides...

In the Jensen laboratory, we study the immunology and pathogenesis of the obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the causative agent of human toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasma has been dubbed the “ubiquitous” parasite because it infects all species of mammals, a variety of birds and a third of...

Replication code and data for all of my studies can be found at the Higher Education Data Hub.

We Investigate Social Factors Influencing Health and Well-Being The Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab is a research group at the University of California, Merced investigating key social factors affecting health and health inequities in California's Central Valley, the heart of California.