Congratulations to MCIP PhD Student, Ricardo Frausto who was awarded the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship! Congrats also to his faculty mentor Dr. Elissa Hallem!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Student, Paul Vander who was selected as one of the top 10 finalists at this year’s 2022 UCLA Grad Slam!

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The final competition will be live streamed on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) on YouTube. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu0ZROvbEZs

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Cynthia McKee on her first author paper published in FASEB J! The title of the paper is “The anti-aging protein Klotho affects early postnatal myogenesis by downregulating Jmjd3 and the canonical Wnt pathway”

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Link to paper: https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1096/fj.202101298R

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Student, Nguyen Phi on her recent publication from her previous work with Dr. Orkun Akin, a faculty from MCIP, published in Nature! The title of the paper is “A discrete neuronal population coordinates brain-wide developmental activity”

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Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04406-9

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Mirian De Siqueira on her co-first author review published in Cell! Congrats also to her faculty mentor Dr. Claudio Villanueva! The title of the paper is “Adipose-tissue plasticity in health and disease”

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Link to paper: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1eX3fL7PXf0eL

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Alexandra Brownstein and the Shirihai Lab who published in Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders! The title of their paper is “ATP-consuming futile cycles as energy dissipating mechanisms to counteract obesity”

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, James Dang who was awarded the Training Grant in Neurobehavioral Genetics T32 for AY 2021-2022! Congratulations also to his faculty mentor, Dr. Weizhe Hong!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Sabeen Kazmi for being awarded the UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology Hyde Fellowship for AY 2021-2022! Congratulations also to her faculty mentor, Dr. Elaine Hsiao!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Monty Blencowe for being awarded the UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology Hyde Fellowship for AY 2021-2022! Congratulations also to his faculty mentor, Dr. Xia Yang!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Sicheng Zhang for being awarded the UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology Eureka Scholarship for AY 2021-2022! Congratulations also to Sicheng’s faculty mentor, Dr. Claudio Villanueva!

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