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November 21, 2013
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Anna La Torre
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May 19, 2015

Anna La Torre grew up in Campdevanol, a small village quite close to the Pyrenees in Catalonia. She attended the University of Barcelona where she received a degree in Biology, and was introduced to the world of Developmental Neurobiology as an undergrad by virtue of Dr. Jesus M. Ureña’s generous mentoring at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). She joined the Neurobiology Ph.D. program at the University of Barcelona under the co-mentorship of Dr. Ureña and Dr.

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Jisoo S. Han
Postdoc

October 20, 2015

Jisoo was born in Korea but she also calls So-Cal home. She did her postdoctoral work in Sergi Simo’s lab working on the role of CRL5 and Arl4 in hippocampal morphogenesis. However, her best (and cutest) development project is her son, Robin. She is the head of the Party Planning Committee and her baking skills are quite epic.

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Adam Miltner
Graduate Student

June 18, 2015

Adam Miltner is from the center of the US–Kansas–and received his bachelors degree from the University of Kansas. He moved to Northern California for graduate school but still anticipates watching the Jayhawks dominate the rest of the Big 12 conference annually in basketball, not football, of course. Adam is interested in using Stem Cells to generate Retinal Ganglion Cells in vitro to move cell replacement therapies a bit closer to clinical applications. He writes the best final sentences for scientific papers (this one is clearly not his).

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Keiko Hino
Lab Manager

May 19, 2015

Keiko Hino came from Osaka, Japan and has a bachelor degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UC Davis. She developed an interest in neuronal development through her experience in the lab but her magic hands for research are inbuilt. Outside of work, she likes to watch movies and play sports.

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Simranjeet Cheema
Junior specialist

July 9, 2018

Simran was born in India and moved to Sacramento at the age of ten. She received her bachelor’s degree in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior (NPB) from University of California, Davis. Since joining the lab as an undergraduate, Simran has assisted on projects to understand the role of miRNAs in neuronal development. In addition to the many joys of research, Simran enjoys reading, hiking, and watching TV. In the very near future, some of the top-notch medical school programs will be fighting to recruit her. 

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Yesica Mercado-Ayon
Junior specialist and PREP scholar

July 9, 2018

Yesica was born in a small town in Jalisco, Mexico and moved to SoCal when she was 10. She completed a BS in Cell Molecular and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Riverside, in March 2018. Prior to joining the La Torre Lab, she worked as a lab technician at UCR and studied the biogenesis of small RNAs in C.elegans. Yesica’s research interests include cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and the genetic basis of disease. Outside of lab she enjoys playing video games and trying new foods.

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Alumni

July 9, 2018

Simranjeet Cheema (junior specialist)          current: medical student at  Western Michigan University 

Joanna Wong (undergraduate researcher)   current: graduate student at University of Pennsylvania 

Yesica Mercado-Ayon (PREP scholar)          current: graduate student at UCLA

Corinne Fairchild (postdoc)                           current: associate research scientist at PPD

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February 13, 2013

The National Science Foundation began supporting ADVANCE initiatives in 2001, and has awarded over $130M in funding for a variety of programs. The most significant efforts seek to create permanent institutional transformation. 

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The UC Davis ADVANCE Program is supported by NSF Cooperative Agreement HRD 1209235

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