Congrats to Ilina Bhaya-Grossman, our Graduate Division Grad Slam champion, with her presentation on 'The Magic of Language Understanding.' We can't wait to cheer her on in the University of California #GradSlam finals on May 3. tiny.ucsf.edu/VNpwCG

Read the new article by first author Jiuling Yang, published simultaneously at #AACR24 —
PVRL2 Suppresses Antitumor Immunity through PVRIG- and TIGIT-independent Pathways.
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Passionate about single-cell omics, ML/AI, and target discovery? Have expertise in these areas? Explore the open postdoc fellow position at Genentech. Exciting projects in developmental biology, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, and human genetics. Contact Michelle Chen for more.

Out now with the #AACR24 late-breaking session LBMS01:
PVRL2 Suppresses Antitumor Immunity Through PVRIG- and TIGIT-Independent Pathways, by Robert Blelloch, Jiuling Yang et al.
bit.ly/4cMqT46
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The big reveal. My post-doc Jiuling Yang will be giving an oral presentation on her exciting findings on the immune checkpoint protein PVRL2 (aka Nectin2, CD112) at the AACR on Monday: abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20272/p… UC San Francisco, UC San Franciscostemcell, UC San FranciscoUrology, UC San FranciscoCancer

Graduate Student Appreciation Week starts now at Parnassus - join us at the Student Success Center!

Congratulations, The Conklin Lab! 🎉 @CIRM selected 'A Center for Stem Cell Disease Modeling and Therapeutics' as part of a $21.3M investment in Shared Resources Labs. These labs will foster collaboration and drive stem cell disease modeling, advancing treatment breakthroughs.

Abstracts Due Tomorrow! Submit your Late-Breaking Abstract by 11:59 p.m. EDT (USA) tomorrow, 3 April, for the opportunity to present your research to the global stem cell community at ISSCR 2024.

Submit now 👉 ow.ly/n4oY50R6Gur

Was great to have played a small role in this work just published in Developmental Cell. Congrats to Kyle Loh's group Stanford University , led by Jonas Fowler & Sherry Li Zheng 🦭: cell.com/developmental-…

🎉 Congratulations to Alex Pollen for being awarded a prestigious MIND Prize! 🧠 Excited to see his innovative research at the intersection of neurodegeneration, cellular models, and genetics. A fantastic achievement indeed! 👏 #Neuroscience #MINDPrize

🎉 Congratulations to Faranak Fattahi for receiving a prestigious Pershing Square Foundation MIND Prize! 🧠 Her groundbreaking work on Schwann cell-neuron interaction in ALS opens new doors for therapeutic breakthroughs. Well-deserved recognition! #Neuroscience #MINDPrize

UCSF's Dr. Tippi MacKenzie is making advances on in utero applications of #CRISPR that could change the future of fetal surgery. “Tippi MacKenzie’s work is not just a sketch on a napkin, it’s a beacon,” UC Berkeley MCB's Fyodor Urnov tells STAT. ucsfh.org/48koomc

In The Transmitter, Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD (@LabNowakowski) and College of Chemistry's Karthik Shekhar, PhD, discuss the ways that new technologies will help scientists understand how the many cell types and circuits in the brain arise:
thetransmitter.org/defining-cell-…
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Thrilled to announce our latest The Incubator Podcast #atthebench with UCSF Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine UCSF Pediatrics alum David McCulley (co-hosted w #curenec researcher Misty Good ). 🤯 about the heterogeneity of #CDH 🫀🫁that will impact my clinical practice & my 🐭models of disease UCSF Broad Stem Cell

👩‍🔬 🧫 #ISSCR2024 is our most clinically focused annual meeting yet! Join us to explore groundbreaking advancements across the research continuum, from bench to bedside. Register today👉 isscr2024.org

Because of #brainawarenessweek2024 , we are thrilled to share that the 3rd edition of #BrainMosaic24 is set to take place in Leuven on the 10-11 October 2024. 📅 More info here: vibbio.tech/3TBDXBG See you there? #neurodevelopment #neurodegeneration #computationalanalysis

Excited to share the latest story from our group in Cell and so proud of the great science and incredible dedication of first authors Leah Dorman and Caroline Escoubas Güney and all co authors (more details to follow)
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Join us today! Getting to Patients Seminar with Dr. Stephen Gitelman. We’re excited to share this clinician-patient dialog with you to explore the real impact of UC San Francisco research on patients’ lived experiences. tiny.ucsf.edu/TzJTdE

How do you find that spark that drives you forward and gives you your ‘why’?

Hear from Robert Blelloch, in our first Love Letters to Science episode. OUT NOW!

Watch the full episode: bit.ly/43267Jo

#ProgressHappensTogether #LoveLettersToScience #Abcam

UC San Francisco Investigators Drs. Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith, MD, FACS, Anthony Luke, Saul Villeda Villeda Lab & Roland Bainton received 1⃣ of UC San FranciscoLabMedicine's funded CTMCT pilot awards for their research on using platelet-rich plasma for osteoarthritis, aiming to advance regenerative transfusion medicine‼️