May 2022 - Congratulations to Will - Graduate School next!
Congratulations to Will who was admitted into the Ph.D. Graduate program at Rush University in Chicago! We are so happy for you, and we are looking forward to hearing about your next journey in Graduate School. Once you leave our lab in the fall: Stay in touch!
04/16/2022 - Welcome to Zane
We are looking forward to welcoming Zane to join our lab as a summer intern through the College Track and Emerson Collective FirstGen Internship Program. We'll see you when you join us in June!
04/11/2022 - Welcome to Jonas
We are happy to welcome Jonas to our lab, and to San Francisco. Coming from the same Medical Student Research program in Norway as Mariam, we hope you will enjoy your visiting stay here at UCSF.
03/28/2022 - Welcome to Amy
Welcome ot our first BMS gradaute rotation student, Amy! We are looking forward to having you join our team, and we hope you will enjoy your rotation in our lab.
02/01/2022 - Congratulations to Jaela
Congratulations to Jaela who was admitted into the UCSF BMS Ph.D. Graduate program! We are so happy for you, and we are looking forward to seeing you grow in your Ph.d. graduate studies. We will see you around!
01/15/2022 - Welcome to Mariam
We are happy to welcome Mariam to our lab, and to San Francisco. We hope you will enjoy your visiting stay here at UCSF as part of your Medical Student Research program at the University of Oslo in Norway.
11/29/2021 - Welcome to Nehemiya
Welcome to Nehemiya, who is a new undergrad joining our lab. We are looking forward to teaching you the fun (and reality) of laboratory research.
September 2021 - Welcome to Sanika, Vibha and Nitish
A joint welcome to Sanika, Vibha and Nitish who joined our lab back-to-back over the first few weeks of September. We are looking forward to teaching you the fun (and reality) of laboratory research.
07/01/2021 - Congratulations to Jaela
Congratulations to Jaela on getting a new exiting job in the Fassett group here at UCSF! Transitioning from immunology to neuroimmunology and continuing on her career path. We wish you all the best and looking forward to seeing you around.
06/21/2021 - Welcome to Luis
Welcome to Luis who is joining our lab as a summer intern through the College Track and Emerson Collective FirstGen Internship Program. We are looking forward to having you in lab and teching you about academic lab research.
06/04/2021 - Congratulations to Princess - Dr. Rodriguez!
Congratulations to Princess in our collaborating lab at University of Vermont for a successful and excellent Ph.D. defense: You are now officially Dr. Rodriguez! We wish you a great celebratory weekend, and we are happy that you will continue in the Frietze lab for a while as a Post Doc, to continue our ongoing collaborative work.
06/02/2021 - Congratulations and Welcome to Mariam
Congratulations to Mariam for being awarded a Medical Student Research Fellowship to join our lab for a 1 year visiting student research internship. She will join our lab either in the late fall of 2021 or January 2022. We are looking forward to having her join our lab and get to know UCSF and the great scientific community here.
05/30/2021 - Congratulations to Sarah
Congratulations to Sarah for her new job as a Jr. Specialist position in William Weiss Lab here at UCSF! Happy you will stay in academic science here at UCSF, so we hope to see you around, although you will be at the Mission Bay campus.
05/21/2021 - Congratulations to Huan and Sarah
Congratulations to Huan and Sarah for completing their excellent Senior Thesis in our lab, and for graduating with Bachelor degrees (BA) from UC Berkeley.
05/06/2021 - Congratulations to Zoe
Congratulations to Zoe for being accepted into Medical School! She will start in the fall at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine: Class of 2025!
04/06/2021 - Welcome to Luis
We are looking forward to welcoming Luis to join our lab as a summer intern through the College Track and Emerson Collective FirstGen Internship Program. We'll see you when you join in June!
03/18/2021 - Congratulations to Huan
Congratulations to Huan for being accepted into the PIBBS Ph.D. Graduate School program at USC! We are so happy for you, and we are also happy that you choose to stay in our lab for a little longer this summer to continue explore the project you have initiated in your Honor Thesis Project.
03/07/2021 - Congratulations to Co-authors
Congratulations to Princess, Hana and coauthors for published review article: “Non-Coding RNA Signatures of B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia”. Rodriguez PD, Paculova H, Kogut S, Heath J, Schjerven H, Frietze S. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Mar 7;22(5):2683. doi: 10.3390/ijms22052683. PMID: 33799946
12/23/2020 - All the best wishes for lab members returning to family during pandemic
We wish all the best for Justin and Douglas as they return to their families during the Covid19 pandemic. We thank you for the time in our lab and wish you all the best for your future careers.
12/20/2020 - Welcome to Zoe
Welcome to Zoe, a new campus volunteer in our lab! We are looking forward to giving you insight and experience in academic research through our lab, as part of your journey towards medical school.
12/01/2020 - Good luck to Hana- Transferring as Post Doc to our collaborators in Vermont
Best wishes to Hana as she transfers her Post Doc to our collaborators at the Univ of Vermont, where she will join the Frietze lab to learn more high throughput experimental techniques (e.g. Cut&run) and bioinformatics analysis! We look forward to continue working with you, through our ongoing collaboration, and see how your project develops.
08/21/2020 - Good luck to Silvia - returning to school
Good luck to Silvia in her future education and career, as she returns to her undergraduate education after her summer internship in our lab. It was nice to get to know you, and we hope you had a good stay and learned more about research, even when faced with challenges in this COVID pandemic.
07/01/2020 - Welcome to Amrita and Silvia
Welcome Amrita and Silvia, our newest post-doc and summer intern respectively, to our lab. We are happy to see our lab grow as we slowly resume activities during these COVID times
03/30/2020 - Welcome to Sarah
Welcome Sarah to our lab! We hope your upcoming experience volunteering will compliment your studies in immunology.
03/17/2020 - Quarantine Shutdown
"Shelter in Place" order and shut down of Lab research activities due to COVID-19.
02/13/2020 - Welcome to Huan
Welcome to Huan, a new campus volunteer in our lab! We are looking forward to giving you insight and experience in academic research through our lab.
01/15/2020 - Congratulations to Eugene Park et al. in the lab of our collaborator Ingo Ringshausen, for their Published work in Science Translational Medicine
Congratulations to our collaborators on a great story that just got published today in Science Translational Medicine. "Stromal cell protein kinase C-β inhibition enhances chemosensitivity in B cell malignancies and overcomes drug resistance"
09/13/2019 - Congratulations to Mabel
Congratulations to Mabel for a great presentation to our lab on her last day in lab. We wish her all the best for her future career, as she is starting her undergraduate studies at University of Washington, in Seattle. Good luck!
09/09/2019 - Welcome to new Post Doc, and welcome back to Justin!
Welcome to new Post Doc, Hana Paculova, who is joining our lab just a month after Douglas. Also welcome back to Justin, who is returning to our lab as a Junior Specialist after his recent B.A. degree! We are happy to have you both join our growing team!
08/12/2019 - Welcome to new Post Doc
Welcome to Douglas Pinheiro, a new Post Doc joining our lab. We are very happy to have you join our group!
06/17/2019 - Welcome to new lab member
Welcome to Jaela Caston, who is joining our lab as a Student Intern. We are looking forward to having you join our group!
06/10/2019 - Congratulations to Eta and Biniam on moving on to the next step in their career
Our warmest congratulations to Eta and Biniam, who are soon going to move onto the next step in their careers. Biniam is accepted into the Respiratory Care program at Skyline College, and Eta will be moving to Seattle to start studies for a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP), Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) at Seattle University!
05/28/2019 - Welcome to Princess
Welcome to Princess, who is a visiting Graduate Ph.D. Student from our collaborating lab at University of Vermont. We are looking forward to having you visit!
05/12/2019: Oral presentations at AAI Immunology 2019 conference
The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) annual meeting (IMMUNOLOGY 2019) was held from Thursday May 9 to Monday May 13, 2019. Both our collaborator, Princess Rodriguez from Univ of Vermont, and our lab, had oral presentations at the meeting.
11/02/2018 - Welcome to new lab member
Welcome to our new lab member, Mabel Ho. We look forward to having you in lab during your High School Senior year project internship, and we hope to give you insight into academic science and share the excitement of research.
10/08/2018 - Welcome to new lab member
Welcome to Justin Pham, who is joining the lab part time, in addition to his ongoing studies at UC Berkley. We are happy to have you join our group!
09/17/2018 - Welcome to new lab member
Welcome to Matthew Strege, who is joining the lab as a Junior Specialist. We are happy to have you join our group!
08/06/2018 - New appointment
We are happy that Will is staying on in our lab, now as a full time Junior Specialist after his recent B.A. graduate degree!
05/22/2018 - Congratulations
Congratulations to Will, who graduated with a B.A. from Berkley, and to Shyama, who has accepted an offer to start at UC Davis with a scholarship!
05/14/2018 - Welcome
Welcome to Dhairya Shah, who is joining us for the summer. We are happy to have you join our group!
02/27/2018 - Welcome to new lab members
Welcome to our new lab members: Sana Alsamman and Alex Vargas, who are joining as Campus volunteers to learn about academic research for the next few months. We are happy to have you join our group!
11/21/2017 - Congratulations to Collaborators on publication
Our collaborators just had their very interesting research on the role of Ahr in gut Treg published in Cell Reports. Congratulations!
"The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Preferentially Marks and Promotes Gut Regulatory T Cells." by Ye et al., in Liang Zhou's lab at Univ of Florida
11/6/2017 - Congratulations to Luis
Congratulations and good luck to Luis Lopez in his new job in Eric Collisson's Lab (also here at UCSF)! While his time here in our lab was cut short, we are really happy for him that he got this new opportunity for a full-time job in science, and we wish him all the best in his future career!
10/31/2017 - Welcome to new lab member
Welcome to our new lab member, Shyamankita (Shyama) Chaganti. We look forward to having you onboard, and giving you insight into academic science and share the excitement of research.
07/19/2017 - Article about our work on ANRF website
The Arthritis National Research Foundation (ANRF) just posted an article about one of our projects that has been funded by a grant from them. We are very thankful for their support! You can read more about their work and mission here: www.curearthritis.org
Also shared on Facebook.
07/05/2017 - Welcome to new lab members
Welcome to our new lab members: Vanesa Bedregal, William Howell and Luis Lopez, who are joining as Campus volunteers. Also welcome to Patricia Chin, who is joining our lab for the summer before she heads back to her studies at UC San Diego in the fall. We are happy to have them on board and look forward to sharing the experience of academic research here at UCSF.
06/01/2017 - Congratulations to Collaborators on publication
Our collaborators just had their very interesting research on STAT5 in pre-B cell leukemia published in Nature Immuology. Congratulations!
"Antagonism of B cell enhancer networks by STAT5 drives leukemia and poor patient survival" By Casey D S Katerndahl et al., from the lab of Michael A Farrar.
04/18/2017 - Congratulations to Karissa
Congratulations and good luck to Karissa Hansen in her new job in Selleri Lab (also here at UCSF)! While we will miss her smiling face here in our lab, we are happy for her that she has found a full-time job in science, and we wish her all the best in her future career!
02/11/2017 - Recent publication in Journal of Experimental Medicine
"Genetic analysis of Ikaros target genes and tumor suppressor function in BCR-ABL1+ pre–B ALL"
Schjerven et al., 2017.
In this work, we used our mouse and human models of pre–B ALL to define conserved target genes and pathways of the tumor suppressor Ikaros. We revealed novel conserved target genes associated with Ikaros tumor suppressor function, and genome-wide chromatin analysis suggests that Ikaros enforces the proper developmental stage–specific expression of multiple genes through chromatin compaction at its target gene. In particular, CTNND1 as well as the early hematopoietic cell-surface receptors CD43 (SPN) and CD34, where identified as Ikaros target genes that each conferred oncogenic growth advantage.
This paper was published Back-to-back with the following paper from Witkowski et al.: "Conserved IKAROS-regulated genes associated with B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia outcome".
2/1/2017 - Welcome back to Eta
Welcome back to Eta - returning after completing his Masters! Happy to have you back! (see joint 'Welcome' Party for him, Danielle, Johanne and Marit under "Photo Gallery")
01/28/2017 - Scholarly Open Access website taken down
Unfortunately, the Scholarly Open Access website was recently taken down (On 15 January 2017, according to this Wiki page that explains more). This Scholarly Open Access website contained "Beall's list" that alerted scientists to the increasing problem of predatory journals and publishers. It also explained this new trend, and contained discussions and articles with specific examples. This website, as well as the list itself, played an important role in putting the spotlight on an increasing problem: Publishing for profit, with (too) fast, fee-based online publishing, without the scientific rigor that proper peer review is supposed to provide. Some "journals" are clear scam, while others are grey-zone, with some solid science mixed with weaker articles that never benefited from proper scientific peer review. There were also examples of self-promotion of journals, by editor- or reviewer-requested references, to drive up "impact factor" of the journal. It is unfortunate that the host, Jeffrey Beall, decided to take down the website. But thanks to his efforts and the information previously provided on his website, the problem has received attention, and we can hope that the efforts will result in more careful and critical evaluation of journals - both in regards to where to publish, where to accept invites to be reviewer or on editorial board, and how to evaluate the papers published within these journals. To read more, take a look at Nature's and Science's comments on the matter. To view Beall's list (static), click here.
01/17/2017 - Welcome
Danielle, Johanne and Marit arrived in the lab. They are master students performing their laboratory project work in the lab at UCSF. Welcome!