Alumni

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Jackelyn Alva, Ph.D.

Jackelyn Alva, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2011 Current Position: Research Scientist in Dr. Brigitte Gomperts’s Lab, UCLA UC Regent’s President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2010 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (relinquished due to overlapping funding), 2008-2009 Tumor Immunology Postdoctoral Training Grant Fellowship (NIH T32-CA009120), 2007-2008 Research Scientist- University of California, Santa Barbara in Dr. Hyongsok (Tom) Soh’s Group at UCSB, 2010-2012

Shahab Younesi

Shahab Younesi

Masters Student, Pyle lab CIRM Bridges Funding, 2014-2015 Bachelors of Science and Masters, Cal State Northridge, CIRM Bridges Fellow, SRA, UCLA Current Position:  Broad Stem Cell Center GMP Team Member

Devin Gibbs

Devin Gibbs

Previous Training:  Lou Kunkel Lab, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA Devin grew up in the small town of Waterville, Maine where he attended Colby College and double majored in Biology and Music History and Composition. At Colby, Devin was a research assistant in Professor Andrea Tilden’s lab where he investigated the timing and localization of […]

Michael Hicks, Ph.D.

Michael Hicks, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow: 2015-2020 Previous training: Arizona State University and University of Arizona What allows transplanted stem cells to self-renew?  My goal is to determine when and where donor muscle cells take up position in the stem cell niche, to regulate muscle stem cell genes, and contribute to new muscle formation.  My current project studies how […]

Matt Romero, Ph.D.

Matt Romero, Ph.D.

Previous training: Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Cells put forth complex regulatory programs that work to control their identity. These programs are unique to their respective cell types, but how do these programs start and how exactly do cells “know” how/when to become a specific type? My work is focused on how muscle stem cells or [...]