Congratulations Dr. Theresa Wechsler! A freshly minted PhD from the UC Davis BMCDB program. Next stop: Seattle and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center for a postdoc, where she’ll trade California sunshine for rain, amazing science, and perhaps a few too many flannel shirts and some great coffee.
Big cheers to Mirjam & Sydney, UC Davis V&E Master’s graduates! From juice stains, MOG, to harvest research chaos, they’ve mastered the science, the art, and the swirl, so they’re ready for release—watch out, wine world! 🍇🥂
Congratulations to Breanne for her selection for a NIH Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32)! These highly competitive awards support the training of promising postdoctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators. With this support Breanne is performing research to define core principles of mRNA packaging, including common RNA arrangements used to modulate nuclear packaging and/or export, and their regulation by RNA-binding proteins.
Ben was recently able to attend a conference on mRNP structure and function in Rome (yes, life is hard) where he shared recently published data from Dr. Ryuta Asada in the lab. The science was great, as was the art, culture, food, and friendly company. We cannot wait for the next time this meeting is held.
Congratulations to Arvind for receiving his PhD and publishing a paper in eLife describing a new mode of regulation for the DEAD-box ATPase Dbp5 by structured RNAs and Gle1. Arvind is now headed to the Bay Area and the next phase of his career. We wish him well and look forward to the great science he will do!
We are excited to welcome Christian Torres and Pragyan Singh to the lab.
Christian joins us as a PREP Scholar for the next year. Our goal is to convince him of the wonders of yeast to study fundamental biology, and have some fun too along the way.
Pragyan is a postdoctoral fellow who brings previous experience in yeast RNA and telomere biology, who was most recently at the Tel Aviv University in Israel within the laboratory of Dr. Martin Kupiec.
Congratulations to Andrew for being offered a spot on the MCB T32 training program at UC Davis. This is a great program that provides additional training of predoctoral graduate students in the area of molecular and cell biology, with a focus on preparing scholars for careers in the biomedical sciences.
Science is exciting, rewarding, and hard at times, so we all need to remember to relax and enjoy life. To help us do this, we have our own in house therapist…Phoebe. She, like the rest of us, likes to have fun, has the odd bad hair day, and needs to relax at times too!
Excited to have Andrew Dominguez join the Montpetit lab! Andrew is part of the BMCDB graduate group at UC Davis and comes to us with an interest in gene expression regulation after time spent in the Bay Area biotech industry and Fred Hutch in Seattle. Welcome to the lab!
