July 2025 – Jeevan joins the team for a summer internship mentored by Bri on CoQ and choanoflagelaltes!

June 2025 – Cole joins the team supported by the CCOP program to study Src signaling with Maria and Silvia joins the team supported by DevBio’s summer undergraduate program to study inducers of choanoflagellate colonies with Yvette!

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!