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Monthly Snapshot

June 2023 | Edited by: Meredith Lew Tan

DEM Guacamole Day

Thank you to all the labs who participated in the DEM Guacamole Day. We hope you had your fill of guacamole and chips. Shoutout to the Feeney Lab for winning the golden spoon! If you want to see pictures from the event, click here.

Announcements

Lab Assistant

Thank you to everyone who helped autoclave and provided coverage in Xavier's absence ! We are glad to say we have found our new lab assistant, Isabella Maytorena.

Upcoming DOMINOs Events

LGBTQ Pride Month Lunch at Mission Rock Resort with Jon Rueter (DOM Central) and Gabe Ibarra (DGIM) - 6/29, 12 PM


Scent Blending at Moonshot Studio and Dinner with Hailey Park and Sophia Tan (HIVID) - 7/12, 3 PM


Dinner at Mr. Digby's with Bob Wachter (DOM) - 7/19, 6 PM


Mosaic Madness at Brushstrokes and Heavy Hors d'oeuvres with Sam Santiago (DOM) and Sara Wingate (DOM) - 7/31, 3 PM

UCSF COVID-19 Policy Updates

Food and drinks are permitted when at 50% occupancy staff are present together in in-door, non-clinical areas. Masking is optional in non-clinical settings.

ZRAB Updates

Move Dates

The DEM's scheduled move dates are as follows:

  • Dry Lab - 9/6
  • Feeney - 9/11
  • BSL2* - 9/12
  • CIL - 9/13
  • Rutishauser, Hunt, Henrich - 9/14
  • Javid, Suliman - 9/20
  • Ernst Dry Lab - 10/9
  • Ernst - 10/10


UCSF ID Badges

Any UCSF ID badge with a black magnetic stripe on the back will need to be replaced. Click here for additional information.

Staffing Updates

Departures

  • Anthony Tran - SRA - Ernst
  • Ingrid Wiggers - Visiting Scholar - Ernst
  • Lily Zemelko - SRA - Rutishauser
  • Gary Chan - Rotation Student - Rutishauser


Arrivals

  • David Maison - Postdoc - Henrich
  • Amanda Buck - SRA - Henrich (new position)
  • Urmila Vudali - Intern - Henrich
  • Santiago Cobarrubias - Intern - Henrich


Current Openings

Awards and Publications

Rachel Rutishauser has received notice that she will be awarded an MPI P01 with Dennis Hartigan-O'Connor for Multi-omic understanding of the transformed host T-cell response to HIV following therapeutic vaccination (short name - OmiT-HIV: "omics of T cells in HIV


Alex Mohapatra has been awarded a Mentored Scientist Award in TB Research to research the "Impact of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on monocyte differentiation in vivo".


Rania Bouzeyen has been awarded a Mentored Scientist Award in TB Research to research the "Development of therapeutic antibodies for tuberculosis".

DEM Events


June 9 | 1-5 PM

UCSF Zine Fair


June 13 | 12-1 PM

Health Advocacy and Community Journalism


June 13 | 3:00-4:30 PM

Out in Science: Being Queer in a Digital Age


June 19 | all day

UCSF Closed - Juneteenth


June 13 | 1 PM

Juneteenth x Pride Film Screening


June 23 | 9 AM-2:30 PM

Digital Health Humanities Interdisciplinary Symposium


July 13 | 1:00-2:30 PM

Publishing for Equity: A Panel Discussion on Anti-Oppressive Publishing

Division Links

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