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2023 |
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| May 23, 2023 |
Congratulations Madison for passing the quals!  |
| Apr 27, 2023 |
Farewell to Three Amigos, Jamie, Irene and Paige  |
| Apr 19, 2023 |
Congratulations Paige! Meet Paige Solomon, PhD   |
| Mar 24, 2023 |
Social Hour is back! Won't you be my neighbor?  |
2022 |
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| Dec 13, 2022 |
Happy Holidays from Wells Lab crew   |
| Sep 14, 2022 |
Annual Wells Lab/Arkin Lab joint Giants game outing!  |
| Aug 25, 2022 |
Farewell to Cole!   |
| Jul 27, 2022 |
Congratulations Cole! Meet Cole Bracken, PhD  |
| Jun 1, 2022 |
Congratulations to Brandon Holmes for receiving:
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| May 24, 2022 |
Congratulations Kaan Kumru for passing the qualifying exam!  |
| May 9, 2022 |
Congratulations Paul Burroughs for passing the qualifying exam!  |
| 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!”  |
| Feb 22, 2022 |
Farewell to Xin, Josef, Kata and Lisa!  |
| Feb 18, 2022 |
Congratulation parents to be Soumya and Sunil!  |
| Jan 21, 2022 |
Congratulations Susanna! Meet Susanna Elledge, PhD   |
| Jan 19, 2022 |
Congratulations Katarina! Meet Katarina Pance, PhD  |
| Jan 12, 2022 |
Congratulations Lisa! Meet Lisa Kirkemo, PhD   |
2021 |
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| Dec 17, 2021 |
Congratulations Adam! Meet Adam Cotton, PhD (Also Champagne cork champ!)  |
| Dec 16, 2021 |
Congratulations Nick! Meet Nick Rettko, PhD  |
| Dec 1, 2021 |
Farewell to Emily, Nick and Adam  |
| Oct 14, 2021 |
Congratulations parents to be, Brandon and Diane!  |
| Aug 30, 2021 |
Our annual Giants game outing!  |
| Jul 26, 2021 |
Wells Lab Community Circle  |
| Jun 26, 2021 |
Farewell to Jeff, Anum and Shion   |
| Jun 10, 2021 |
Congratulations Sophie Kong for passing the qualifying exam!  |
2019 |
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| Dec 14, 2019 |
Last Christmas Party of the decade!    |
| Nov 25, 2019 |
Farewell to Duy Nguyen!  |
| Nov 4, 2019 |
Great dinner at CCB retreat with Wiita lab!  |
| Sept 10, 2019 | Go Giants at our annual game outing! |
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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 |
 Thanks to the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) for their initiative to get to know each private investigator. Details: Interview with Jim Wells. |
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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.  |
| 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.  |
2018 |
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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 |
 Congrats and thanks to Alex Martinko for a great exit talk. |
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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.  |
2017 |
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Jul 1, 2017 |
Welcome to graduate students Susanna Elledge, Lisa Kirkemo, and Irene Liu. |
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May 31, 2017 |
 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. |
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May 30, 2017 |
Congrats to Amy Weeks on receiving a Burroughs Wellcome Award.  Amy Weeks |
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May 17, 2017 |
Congrats to Emily Kang and Nick Rettko for passing their qualifying exams. |
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May 1, 2017 |
 Congrats to Kevin Leung for receiving a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) postdoctoral award. |
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May 1, 2017 |
Congrats to Xin Zhou for receiving a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellowship award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. |
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May 1, 2017 |
Congrats to Alex Martinko for receiving a Pharm Sci Award in basic sciences. |
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Apr 30, 2017 |
Congrats to Zach Hill on receiving a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K99 award. |
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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).   |
| 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.
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Feb 28, 2017 |
 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. |
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Jan 31, 2017 |
 Jim Wells Congrats to Jim Wells on receiving distinguished alumni from his graduate alma mater. |
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Jan 1, 2017 |
 Olivier Julien Congrats to Olivier Julien on his new faculty job at University of Alberta, Edmonton. |
2015 |
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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  Michael Hornsby |
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Apr 1, 2015 |
Happy birthday to Jim Wells! Video: Jim Wells blowing out birthday candles (33 seconds).   |
2014 and earlier |
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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.  The group poses for a photo at the Wells Lab retreat in the Presidio. |
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Jul 1, 2014 |
Congrats to JT Koerber and Jason Porter on their new positions.  |
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May 16, 2014 |
 Jim Wells Jim Wells publishes his latest Science perspective: New Tricks for an Old Dimer. |
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May 1, 2014 |
Congrats to Nathan Thomsen on his new position at Gilead.  Nathan Thomsen |
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May 1, 2014 |
 Duy Nguyen Congrats to Duy Nguyen for being awarded a Damon Runyon fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. |
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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 |
 Arun Wiita Congrats to Arun Wiita on his new assistant professor position at UCSF. |
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Apr 20, 2013 |
Julie and Nick got married. Congratulations on your big day.  |
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Dec 7, 2011 |
Graduate student Emily Crawford publishes Tips for writing your first scientific literature review article in ASBMB Today.  Matthew Perry
Emily Crawford |