Giraldez Lab News

Srikar Krishna was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Cancer Society.
Damir Musaev and Maria Benitez defended their PhD theses. Congratulations Dr. Musaev and Dr. Benitez!

Postgraduate assistant Miguel Ángel Delgado Toscano was accepted to the EMBL International PhD Programme.
Goodbye Mark Pownall! He’s off to start his own lab as part of the UCSF Sandler Fellows Program.

Postdoc Caroline Hoppe was a selected participant at the Global Young Scientist Summit 2024 in Singapore.

Ella Callahan joins our lab as a postgraduate assistant.
Curtis Boswell and Caroline Hoppe’s work on GEARs (Genetically Encoded Affinity Reagents) is now available as a preprint.
Fiona Sievers was awarded a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) PhD fellowship.
Second year graduate students Fiona Sievers and Gal Jaschek passed their qualifying exams.
Ethan Strayer’s new preprint describing NaP-TRAP, a novel assay for measuring translation, is now available. This work was done in collaboration with lab alum Jean-Denis Beaudoin, now assistant professor at UConn.

Postdoc Valerie Tornini is named a 2023 STAT Wunderkind.
Postdoc Caroline Hoppe received the Best Poster Award at the EMBL Symposium “Seeing is Believing”.

All lab members participated in the annual Giraldez Lab Retreat – three full days of science and fun!
Goodbye Charles Vejnar! He’s off to a position at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Postdoc Alice Sherrard awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NICHD.
Postdoc Valerie Tornini named a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists.

Postdoc Valerie Tornini named a finalist for Proteintech’s Best Postdoc Mentor Award 2023.
Our lab’s paper describing Chromatin Expansion Microscopy (ChromExM) is published in Science. Congrats to Mark, Liyun, and all other co-authors!

Giraldez Lab News!