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2023

Jul 1, 2023

Congratulation Dr. Brandon Holmes MD PhD for being promoted to the position of assistant adjunct professor, effective July 1st!

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Jun 13, 2023 

Congratulations Rita for passing the quals!

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Jun 3, 2023

University of Chicago Convocation where Jim received his honorary PhD degree. Congratulations Jim! 

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May 23, 2023 

Congratulations Madison for passing the quals!

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Apr 27, 2023

Farewell to Three Amigos, Jamie, Irene and Paige

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Apr 19, 2023 

Congratulations Paige! Meet Paige Solomon, PhD

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Mar 24, 2023

Social Hour is back! Won't you be my neighbor? 

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2022

Dec 13, 2022

Happy Holidays from Wells Lab crew

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Wells lab holiday
Sep 14, 2022

Annual Wells Lab/Arkin Lab joint Giants game outing! 

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Aug 25, 2022

Farewell to Cole! 

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Jul 27, 2022 

Congratulations Cole! Meet Cole Bracken, PhD

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Jun 1, 2022 

Congratulations to Brandon Holmes for receiving:

  • Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Developmental Award
  • BrightFocus Foundation grant for Alzheimer's research. In addition, the BrightFocus Foundation also awarded him with the BrightFocus Outstanding Achievement in Alzheimer’s Disease Research Award for best overall proposal. 
  • Named one of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center's (ADRC) Research Education Component (REC) Scholar for the 2022 - 2023 year.

 

Brandon Wells Lab

 

May 24, 2022

Congratulations Kaan Kumru for passing the qualifying exam!

Kaan Wells Lab
May 9, 2022 

Congratulations Paul Burroughs for passing the qualifying exam!

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Apr 26, 2022 Jim was selected to give this year’s Annual UCSF Faculty Research Lecture! 

Wonderful gathering of family, friends, alumni and current lab members. “Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A pirate’s life for me!” 

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Feb 22, 2022

Farewell to Xin, Josef, Kata and Lisa! 

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Feb 18, 2022

Congratulation parents to be Soumya and Sunil! 

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Jan 21, 2022

Congratulations Susanna! Meet Susanna Elledge, PhD

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Jan 19, 2022

Congratulations Katarina! Meet Katarina Pance, PhD 

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Jan 12, 2022 

Congratulations Lisa! Meet Lisa Kirkemo, PhD

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2021

Dec 17, 2021

Congratulations Adam! Meet Adam Cotton, PhD (Also Champagne cork champ!) 

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Dec 16, 2021 

Congratulations Nick! Meet Nick Rettko, PhD 

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Dec 1, 2021

Farewell to Emily, Nick and Adam

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Oct 14, 2021

Congratulations parents to be, Brandon and Diane! 

Baby Shower for Holmes
Aug 30, 2021

Our annual Giants game outing!

Jul 26, 2021

Wells Lab Community Circle 

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Jun 26, 2021

Farewell to Jeff, Anum and Shion

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Jun 10, 2021

Congratulations Sophie Kong for passing the qualifying exam!

Sophie Qulas

2019

Dec 14, 2019

Last Christmas Party of the decade!

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Nov 25, 2019

Farewell to Duy Nguyen!

farewell party for Duy Nguyen
Nov 4, 2019

Great dinner at CCB retreat with Wiita lab!

Sept 10, 2019 Go Giants at our annual game outing!
Giants game outing 2019

Aug 27, 2019

Farewell and best wishes to Professor Amy Weeks.

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Jul 31, 2019

Welcome Julia Xu to the world!

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Jun 27, 2019

QBI

Thanks to the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) for their initiative to get to know each private investigator. Details: Interview with Jim Wells.

Jun 26, 2019

Congrats and thanks to Ninwe Maraha for our lab being awarded the LivingGreen certification from the Office of Sustainability. Details: School of Pharmacy leads in LivingGreen certifications.

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Mar 17, 2019

Congrats to Cole Bracken for passing his qualifying exam.

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Mar 16, 2019

Congrats to Adam Cotton for passing his qualifying exam.

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Feb 25, 2019

The lab team enjoys the “to ski or not to ski” ski trip.

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2018

Aug 21, 2018

Mini-farewell to Michael Hornsby at Oda’s.

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Jul 27, 2018

Farewell to Zach Hill, Sam, and Alex.

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Jul 24, 2018

Congrats and thanks to Sam for a “sprinkling” exit talk.

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Jul 13, 2018

Farewell to Sam. We’ll miss him on our weekly boba train.

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Jul 2, 2018

Wells and Martinko

Congrats and thanks to Alex Martinko for a great exit talk.

May 23, 2018

Congrats to Irene Lui on passing her qualifying exam.

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May 23, 2018

Congrats to Susanna Elledge on passing her qualifying exam.

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May 1, 2018

Congrats to Lisa Kirkemo on passing her qualifying exam.

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Mar 1, 2018

The lab team enjoys a ski trip to Lake Tahoe.

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2017

Jul 1, 2017

Welcome to graduate students Susanna Elledge, Lisa Kirkemo, and Irene Liu.

May 31, 2017

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Kurt Mou

Congrats and farewell to Kurt Mou on his new faculty position at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and thanks for an awesome farewell party.

May 30, 2017

Congrats to Amy Weeks on receiving a Burroughs Wellcome Award.

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Amy Weeks

May 17, 2017

Congrats to Emily Kang and Nick Rettko for passing their qualifying exams.

May 1, 2017

CIHR IRSC

Congrats to Kevin Leung for receiving a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) postdoctoral award.

May 1, 2017

Congrats to Xin Zhou for receiving a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellowship award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

May 1, 2017

Congrats to Alex Martinko for receiving a Pharm Sci Award in basic sciences.

Apr 30, 2017

Congrats to Zach Hill on receiving a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K99 award.

Mar 26, 2017

Great lab ski trip, with snow!

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Mar 22, 2017

Congrats to Sam Pollock and Ashley Smart for winning awards at Grad Slam 2017. Details: Cell Division Talk Takes Top Prize at 2017 UCSF Grad Slam. Video: Grad Slam 2017: Ashley Smart, Neuroscience Program (3 minutes, 40 seconds).

Grad Slam 2017: Ashley Smart, Neuroscience Program
Grad Slam
Mar 1, 2017
Congrats to Hai Tran for graduating from the Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) PhD degree program and thanks for a fantastic exit talk and farewell party.

Feb 28, 2017

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

Congrats to Jim Wells on receiving a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Award. Details: Five School of Pharmacy researchers in first cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators.

Jan 31, 2017

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Jim Wells

Congrats to Jim Wells on receiving distinguished alumni from his graduate alma mater.

Jan 1, 2017

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Olivier Julien

Congrats to Olivier Julien on his new faculty job at University of Alberta, Edmonton.

2015

Nov 1, 2015

Farewell to Ben Spangler, Charles Morgan, Juan Diaz, and Tet Matsuguchi.

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Sep 1, 2015

A new collaboration between Celgene Corp. and the Recombinant Antibody Network (RAN), a consortium comprising research groups from UC San Francisco (UCSF), the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto, will support the development of next-generation, antibody-based cancer therapies. Details: Antibody Network Partners With Celgene for Cancer Therapies

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Michael Hornsby

Apr 1, 2015

Happy birthday to Jim Wells! Video: Jim Wells blowing out birthday candles (33 seconds).

Jim Wells 65th birthday

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2014 and earlier

Sep 28, 2014

Congrats to Olivier Julien for publishing Unraveling the mechanism of cell death induced by chemical fibrils in Nature Chemical Biology.

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Sep 1, 2014

Congrats to Min Zhuang on your faculty position.

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The group poses for a photo at the Wells Lab retreat in the Presidio.

Jul 1, 2014

Congrats to JT Koerber and Jason Porter on their new positions.

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May 16, 2014

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Jim Wells

Jim Wells publishes his latest Science perspective: New Tricks for an Old Dimer.

May 1, 2014

Congrats to Nathan Thomsen on his new position at Gilead.

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Nathan Thomsen

May 1, 2014

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Duy Nguyen

Congrats to Duy Nguyen for being awarded a Damon Runyon fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

May 1, 2014

Congrats to Arun Wiita on the acceptance of his N-terminomics paper in PNAS: Circulating proteolytic signatures of chemotherapy-induced cell death in humans discovered by N-terminal labeling.

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Apr 1, 2014

Wiita

Arun Wiita

Congrats to Arun Wiita on his new assistant professor position at UCSF.

Apr 20, 2013

Julie and Nick got married. Congratulations on your big day.

Julie and Nick wedding group.

Dec 7, 2011

Graduate student Emily Crawford publishes Tips for writing your first scientific literature review article in ASBMB Today.

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Emily Crawford