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Ramen (PI) and our wonderful collaborator at Purdue university –Dr. Emily Dykhuizen (Co-PI)– received a R21 award from NIMH. The funded grant is titled, "BAF complex inhibitors in neuronal development and functions". This award will fund Karen's project where we are studying the role of BAF complex...

Cumulative work from two graduate students, Angel Kongsomboonvech and Laura Garcia-Lopez, in which genetic mapping was employed to understand the parasite strain differences in eliciting CD8 T cell IFNg production to parasite infected cells. Over 120 parasite strains were screened, and ROP16 - a...

As of today I will serve as the Chair of MCB department.

Undergraduate student Hins Qiu who has been associated with our lab for almost two years now receives a CCBM student fellowship for the academic year 2023/2024. He will receive a stipend and additional mentoring from the CCBM - a NSF-funded center for biophysics/bioengineering on campus. He is...

The National Institute of Health awarded a R01 grant worth $3 million dollars to Professor Maria-Elena Young. Young's project plans to span across five years looking at health care access and quality of life of latinos in rural communities and how immigration policies have an impact. The project...

Our work on climate change and health has been recently featured in local news here: https://abc30.com/uc-merced-new-review-health-study-pregnancy-complicat…

Honored to have been a part of a guest session at the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) meeting as an invited speaker for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Symposium. Azza Idris (Harvard), Robin Stephens (Rutgers) and Romaniya Zayats (pictured below) gave...