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UC Merced hosts Developmental Symposium

News: May 10, 2025
UC Merced hosted for the first time a long-established regional gathering of researchers in Developmental Psychology. The Bay Area Developmental Symposium brought together about 70 faculty, graduate students and post-doctoral students from UC Merced, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz...

Jake Velen

Person: Graduate Student [1st year]
Jake had an extensive undergraduate research experience at Pepperdine University before joining the QSB program and the Jensen lab. Jake is interested in understanding mechanisms of tolerance following Toxoplasma infection and will be performing large-scale genetic screens to this end!

28th Woods Hole Immuno-parasitology meeting - a success!

News: April 16, 2025
I was honored to be the lead organizer of the Woods hole Immuno-parasitology ( WHIP) meeting that I co-organized with Tajie Harris (University of Virginia) April 13-16, 2025. We had ground breaking trainee talks, and wonderful key note addresses from P'ng Loke (NIH), Jenny Ting (University of North...

Ana Quintana-Ceja

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Person: Student Researcher
Ana Quintana-Ceja is an undergraduate Sociology and Economics student. She is a native of Merced, where she has been involved in various community organizations since high school. Ana has an interest in studying the effects of land use, housing, and transportation. Her past experience includes...

Sofia Aguilar

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Research Assistant Alum Sofia Aguilar, a native of Los Angeles, California, graduated from the University of California, Merced in 2024 with a bachelor's degree in Public Health. She was a Student Researcher at Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab in the Department of Public Health...

Brenda Castañeda-Castañeda

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Research Associate Alum Brenda Castañeda-Castañeda was a Staff Research Associate in Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity, and Place (HOPe) Lab within the Department of Public Health. She graduated with a BA in Public Health from the University of California, Merced, in May 2020, and is currently pursuing...

Cas12a Paper Published

News: April 30, 2023
The paper " Boosting genome editing efficiency in human cells and plants with novel LbCas12a variants" was published in Europe PMC.

Hellman Fellowship

News: September 30, 2024
The Hellman Fellowship was awarded to fund research in the lab. Let's get to work!