Our SARS-CoV-2 surveillance study is out on MedRxiv! What a wonderful collaboration with many of our colleagues! 

CRISPR-based and RT-qPCR surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic individuals uncovers a shift in viral prevalence among a university population

doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.06.20169771

Congrats Franci! We wish you much success in your studies!

Our preprint on a scalable easy-to-deploy protocol to detect SARS-CoV-2 is out on bioRxiv. Check it out here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.20.052159v1

We have two new papers, one in PNAS and one in Bio-protocol!

Harnoss JM, Le Thomas A, Shemorry A, Marsters SA, Lawrence DA, Lu M, Chen Y-CAriel, Qing J, Totpal K, Kan D et al..  2019. Disruption of IRE1α through its kinase domain attenuates multiple myeloma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Here we describe the pharmacological targeting of the kinase domain of the key UPR effector IRE1 as a potential therapeutic for multiple myeloma.

Michael decided to join our lab for his Ph.D. Welcome! We are excited to have you in our lab community and we wish you much success in your research.

Carlos received the 2018 Lindros Award for Translating Research to Medical Practice of the UCSB Center for Bioengineering. This annual award is made possible by a generous donation from Carl and Jo Lindros. 

Sabrina received the 2018 Doreen J. Putrah Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship for summer research.

Thank you to the donors for supporting our research, and congratulations Carlos and Sabrina!

José Carlos Ponce Rojas has chosen our lab to conduct his postdoctoral work. We are delighted to have you in our group Carlos, and we wish you much success in your studies!

Welcome Anastasiya, Megan, Neda, Shakuntala, Lauren, and Soham! We are very happy to have you as part of our team.

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We are very excited and honored ot receive this prestigious Award!  Our deepest gratitude to the UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Grants Program and to Chancellor Henry T. Yang.