Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF
Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF studies fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms of development, stem cells, regeneration, and disease
- Fun times at the CTB Holiday party yesterday with a great turnout!
- Reposted by Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSFThe UCSF Breast Oncology Program is happy to partner with One More City and founder Christine O’Connell to support metastatic breast cancer research. This will be the 4th year that together with Rapha they have sponsored a century ride. @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social
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- We are excited to share that Ace Lewis and Yasmeen Ibrahim will speak at the CTB Department Research In Progress Seminar tomorrow! We look forward to seeing you there!
- 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
- Ting, a postdoc in the L’Etoile lab @girlsinscience.bsky.social, was recently awarded the BARI Postdoctoral Fellowship to study how nights of poor sleep contribute to age-related memory decline in tiny roundworms, which—like humans—also experience sleep loss and memory deterioration as they age.
- 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
- Kyle Jacobs, a Biomedical Sciences PhD candidate in the Kutys Lab, is studying mechanisms of blood vessel inflammation and how this inflammation is dysregulated in diseases like atherosclerosis.
- Cambria Chou-Freed, a Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. student in Diane Barber and Dan Wagner's labs, is investigating intracellular pH dynamics during zebrafish larval tail regeneration.
- We are thrilled that Hydronovo www.hydronovo.com has been awarded an NIH SBIR grant to develop Ceviginate, a new therapeutic for regenerating salivary gland function in debilitating xerostomia. The discoveries for this breakthrough come from the lab of Sarah Knox in CTB!
- Karin Shamardani, DDS/PhD candidate, is working with Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social to study how Efnb1 and the understudied actin-regulator gene Shrm4 interact to control palatal outgrowth and mesenchymal organization during craniofacial development.
- The Department of Cell and Tissue Biology has outstanding graduate students from several different programs at UCSF. We are grateful! Over the next several weeks, we will highlight some of these students and share their research focus.
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- We are happy to have @semilc.bsky.social and the Choksi Lab join the CTB community!
- I'm thrilled to announce that my lab is opening this August in the Department of Cell & Tissue Biology @ UCSF! We will study airway stem cells and explore how they generate multiciliated cells (my favorite!) to keep pathogens and debris out of the lung. Check out choksilab.org for more!
- CTB welcomes new Assistant Professor Semil Choksi @semilc.bsky.social to the department! The Choksi Lab will study how airway stem cells generate multiciliated cells - and how this process goes wrong in respiratory disease. His lab is opening this August. Visit choksilab.org to learn more!
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- We are excited to share that Nathan Griffin and Petria Thompson will speak at the CTB Department Research In Progress Seminar today! We look forward to seeing you there!
- We are excited to share that Arvind Rajan and Karin Shamardani will speak at the CTB Department Research In Progress Seminar today! We look forward to seeing you there!
- Reposted by Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSFPleased to have our reviewed preprint out now @elife.bsky.social Outstanding work by Drs. Rachel Nakagawa, Dan Van de Mark, and Andrew Beardsley. Shout out to @genophoria.bsky.social, Mary-Kate Hayward and many others Press Release Here elifesciences.org/for-the-pres... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social
- We are excited to share that Annie Kingsland will speak at the CTB Department Research In Progress Seminar tomorrow! We look forward to seeing you there!
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- We are excited to share that Fred Chang has been elected as a AAAS fellow! @fredchanglab.bsky.social www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/03/429681/ucsfs-fred-chang-honored-election-aaas
- Reposted by Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSFI'm thrilled to share that CTB faculty Fred Chang has been elected as a AAAS fellow! Congratulations to Fred on this well-deserved honor. @fredchanglab.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/03/429681/ucsfs-fred-chang-honored-election-aaas
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- We are excited to share that Shabrina Amirruddin will speak at the CTB Department Research In Progress Seminar tomorrow! We look forward to seeing you there!
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- Join us at the Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Research Group seminar today at 4 PM, hosted by Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social and Patrick Ha, to hear Flora (Fatemeh) Momen-Heravi speak about personalized medicine in head and neck cancer!
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- We are excited to share that Luke Lucido and Daphne Superville will speak at the CTB Department Research In Progress Seminar tomorrow! We look forward to seeing you there!
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