April 2025 – Yvette and Elionel receive honorable mentions for their NSF Graduate Research Fellowship applications.

March 2025—Bri passes her quals and becomes a Biology PhD candidate! Mariann Guzman-Espinoza joins us to study Abelson tyrosine kinase in choanoflagellates! Elionel, Viky, and Yvette are accepted into PhD programs and will start graduate school in Fall 2025!

January 2025 – Hannah passes her quals and becomes a Biochemistry PhD candidate!

September 2024 – Bri joins the team to study choanoflagellate-bacterial symbiosis!

July 2024 – María receives the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship! 

June 2024 – Elionel joins the team as a Stanford SSRP intern to study Src signaling with María!

May 2024 – Hannah joins the team to study choanoflagellate focal adhesions, and Yeganeh joins the team to study IGF1R in choanoflagellates! 

April 2024 – We receive support from the Hypothesis Fund to explore the ancestry of cancer-associated genes! Nils completes his Master’s Thesis!