My Orange County Lab Family ❤️

I've #mentored ~50 #graduate and #undergraduate #students & it's been one of the best experiences in my #academic #career. These were my last before the pandemic hit. #brunch with my former #uci #students #☺️

Thank you to @hobbsn687 & Krystina Jarema and team for putting together an awesome UCI Cancer Research Institute BBQ!! We had a great time & appreciate your hard work ☺️ UC IrvineSOM @UCIrvine #zot #anteaters #cancer #research #bbq #party #fun #summer

Kicked #cancer in the nut sack 🥜💰. My last #uci Anti-Cancer Challenge #run (mostly walking 😅) with these lovely people 🥲🥹❤️...congrats to our very own Tim McMullen who finished 2nd in the 10k run! 🔥 . #cancer #research #family UCI Cancer Research Institute UC Irvine @UCIrvineSOM

Magical Anti-Cancer Challenge group photo! Swear the background is not CGI! Kai Kessenbrock Devon Lawson @UCIrvineSOM UCI Cancer Research Institute @NafPascal Hamad Alshetaiwi Tim McMullen

Post #lab #workout ... Gonna miss this #gym ! UC Irvine #science #fitness #work

Congrats to my former PhD supervisor Siyaram Pandey for being honored as a Distinguished University Professor at University of Windsor! He has always put his students 1st & even as I do my postdoc at UC Irvine, he still has found time to meet & provide me with crucial career/ life advice.

Welcome to attend one of my best friend's PhD defense: Ph.D. Dissertation Defense of Hamad Alshetaiwi Hamad Alshetaiwi, “Defining Immunosuppressive Myeloid Cells in Breast Cancer in Single Cell Resolution” Tuesday, November 22, 2022 3:00 p.m. Nelson Auditorium @UCIrvineSOM

My best friend Hamad Alshetaiwi just got his PhD! We’ve worked on our cancer research together through many late nights, weekends, holidays, & even Christmas. Easily the nicest, most hard working person I know & I will miss working with you! Congrats Dr. Alshetaiwi!

What a day started with my national team winning 🤍💚 and ended with defending my PhD. Thanks to my PI Kai @kessenbrocklab, for his guidance and motivation during my PhD. Thanks go to my family, friends, colleagues and my country for giving me all the support🙏🏻🌹

MA going away party. Thanks Kai Kessenbrock & Devon Lawson for taking a chance with me as your 1st Postdoc & letting me grow as a scientist. And thank you to my lab family who are easily the most wonderful people I have ever met… I will miss you guys! 🥲

Was always my dream to work for Google & do #cancer #research. It happened. I will be starting work at the Alphabet (Google) company Calico Life Sciences as an Oncology Dept Sr Scientist. Thanks to my friends & family & excited to join this amazing team! uwindsor.ca/dailynews/2022…

Sunday Funday Science Crew Tim McMullen

Super excited to see our paper on the role of the microenvironment in promoting BRCA1-mediated breast cancer initiation finally out Nature Genetics. Huge congrats to the combined driving force of first authors Kevin Nee and Dennis Ma. go.nature.com/3Lj1GTs

Got to celebrate our Nature Genetics paper with my UC Irvine School of Medicine family. Great to see everyone again :) Kai Kessenbrock Devon Lawson @Maren_Pein Jacob Insua-Rodríguez

Moonlighting as a postdoc in Kai Kessenbrock & Devon Lawson & presented our project defining the role of epigenetics in metastasis with PDX models at the UC Irvine CCBS retreat. Thanks Arthur Lander, Karen Martin & team for putting on a great event! Timothy L. Downing Michelle Digman

For anyone interested, I will be giving a talk on my cancer research at the University of Windsor at 3pm on Friday, May 12, 2023 in Essex Hall Room #109. University of Windsor @ScienceUWindsor UWindsor Chemistry

Caught up with my PhD supervisor, Dr. Siyaram Pandey, & presented my cancer research at UWindsor Chemistry . He was the 1st person to get me excited about science & has continued to provide me valuable career & science advice. Could not have asked for a better life long mentor 🥹

Poster prize!!! Congrats Perera lab grad student Grace Hernandez Grace Hernandez on presenting a prize winning poster at the CSHL Meetings metabolic signaling meeting #cshlmetab

Attention organelle enthusiasts!! I am beyond thrilled to introduce Nellie: a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D/3D live-cell microscopy. paper: arxiv.org/abs/2403.13214 github: github.com/aelefebv/nellie 🧵1/N