Graduate Students

Previous Training: Northeastern University (B.S.) and Case Western Reserve University (M.S.) An outstanding issue in stem cell-based therapies is that current directed differentiation protocols of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into muscle generate immature embryonic myocytes and skeletal muscle progenitor cells (SMPCs). In order to create more mature muscle and satellite cells (SCs) in vitro, my research […]

Sarah is a PhD student in the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) program at UCLA. She received a BS in Neuroscience and a BA in European Languages from UCLA, where she studied the neurobiology of fruit fly sensory integration in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Frye. As a PhD student in the Pyle Lab, […]