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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 predoctoral 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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Mikaela Louie
Graduate Student

July 9, 2018

Mikaela Louie is from Honolulu, Hawaii and received her bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is currently studying the molecular roadblocks for Retinal Ganglion Cell transplantation, and she has the burden to be the “computational person” in a wet lab. Mikaela has many interests outside the lab including baking delicious mochi cakes, growing succulent plants, and cosplaying as other members of the lab. 

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Elizabeth Fishman
Graduate Student

July 9, 2018

Elizabeth is from Phoenix, Arizona and received her Bachelor’s degree from Haverford College in Pennsylvania. She has worked on a new model organism in each of her previous three labs and is excited to add four new organisms to the list as she compares retina development across different species. In addition to endlessly counting cells, she likes to visit museums and explore the outdoors. Elizabeth took a quick break from lab bench before starting graduate school to teach future scientist ecology in the Redwood Forest, and she has been an avid teacher ever since. 

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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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NSF ADVANCE Program

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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