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Wrapping up National Postdoc Appreciation Week with a big thank you to our outstanding postdocs! #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Elliott is postdoc in the Sneddon lab who is excited to uncover novel insights of transcription factor function in pancreatic endocrine development--a project recently funded by a Hillblom Foundation Fellowship award. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Hector, a postdoc in the Wittmann lab @microtubule.bsky.social, works on chromosome dynamics in cancer and stem cells and is developing methods to identify chromosomes in live mitotic cells as well as interfering with chromosome segregation by optogenetic approaches. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Yuwei Zhang joined the Sneddon lab in 2025. Her research accomplishments include using patient-derived stem cells and CRISPR to investigate the molecular basis of β-cell failure, while her current work aims to bioengineer more functional, transplant-ready islets. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week! We are celebrating all the incredible postdocs in the CTB Department! Thank you for your dedication and the vital role you play in advancing research! We will be introducing some of the postdocs who have joined in 2025. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Ton Montoya, a postdoc in the Goga lab @andreigoga.bsky.social, has discovered the critical importance of alanine metabolism in liver cancer. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Ana Lyons is a waterbear- whisperer. She is fascinated by how they do what they do - move, respond to light and heat, how their neurons are connected up; in order to approach these questions she has done expansion microscopy, RNA-fish and much more. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Yoon-Gu Jang in the Bush lab @jeffbush.bsky.social is working on understanding a novel metabolic pathway that is important for human craniofacial development and is disrupted in a condition called Catel-Manzke syndrome. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Shuting Li, a postdoc in the Goga lab @andreigoga.bsky.social, is using in vivo CRISPR screens to identify mechanisms of cancer immune evasion and how to improve such treatments. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Iris Liu, a vascular surgery resident and postdoc, is working with Matt Kutys and Michael Conte to study mechanisms of vascular calcification in peripheral artery disease. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Laura Persson discovered the surprising collective spiraling behavior of C. elegans that she dubbed the "WormNado". She uses physics driven approaches to reveal an unusual electro-magneto- sense that worms and possibly other organisms, use to navigate. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Fatema Saifuddin discovered the circuits that allow animals to switch between two radically different locomotory behavior and she is hot on the trail of the neurons that actually allow the animals to learn how to switch! #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Cedric Yu, a postdoc in the Knox lab, is studying the role of the sympathetic nervous system in the sexual dimorphic response of salivary glands to radiation. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Kyle Kisor is a postdoc in the Barber lab. His work focuses on how pH broadly regulates protein electrostatics specifically at titratable histidine residues to regulate diverse behaviors, including gene expression, metabolism, and cancer. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Bo Sun, a postdoctoral researcher in the Knox lab, is dedicated to shedding light on the mechanisms of organ regeneration, with a specific focus on the aging-related changes in the salivary gland. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Luye An, a postdoc in the Knox lab, completed his PhD study on skin immunology at Cornell University and studied cornea inflammatory disease. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Shabrina Amirruddin, a postdoc in Julie Sneddon's lab, is using human stem cells to understand diabetes pathophysiology. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Mageshi graduated from the University of Paris-Saclay, where she studied early hindbrain morphogenesis in zebrafish. Currently, at the Kutys Lab, she focuses on cell adhesion biology, specifically on keratins and desmosomes, using mammalian cell culture. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Sonia Infante is a postdoctoral fellow in the Diane Barber lab. As a postdoc, she bridges protein chemistry and cell biology to address questions on the regulation of lysosomes in cancer and neurodegeneration. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Camilla Teng in the Bush lab @jeffbushman.bsky.social is working to understand cell behaviors and force generators driving development of the upper lip. This mysterious process has relevance to cleft lip, which is the most common congenital anomaly affecting the face. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Petria-George Thompson, a postdoc in the Goga lab @andreigoga.bsky.social, is studying mechanisms of CDK2 inhibition as therapeutics for breast cancer and other cancers. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

José Liboy-Lugo has identified a connection between biomolecular condensates known as stress granules and changes to gene expression during cellular stress using cell biology, biochemistry, and functional genomics. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Vahid Niknezhad joined the Knox lab in 2022 as a postdoctoral scholar, focusing on the development of biomaterials and hydrogels for drug delivery systems and tissue repair technologies. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs