2023 | ||
| Jul 1, 2023 |
| Congratulation Dr. Brandon Holmes MD PhD for being promoted to the position of assistant adjunct professor, effective July 1st! |
| 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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| 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:
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| May 24, 2022 | Congratulations Kaan Kumru for passing the qualifying exam! 
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| 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! 
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| Aug 30, 2021 | Our annual Giants game outing! 
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| 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! 
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2019 | ||
| Dec 14, 2019 | Last Christmas Party of the decade! 
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| Nov 25, 2019 | Farewell to Duy Nguyen! 
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| Nov 4, 2019 | Great dinner at CCB retreat with Wiita lab! 
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| 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. | |
| 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 |
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 | 
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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| May 17, 2017 | Congrats to Emily Kang and Nick Rettko for passing their qualifying exams. | |
| May 1, 2017 |
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). 
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| 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 |
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 | 
Congrats to Jim Wells on receiving distinguished alumni from his graduate alma mater. | |
| Jan 1, 2017 | 
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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| Apr 1, 2015 | Happy birthday to Jim Wells! Video: Jim Wells blowing out birthday candles (33 seconds). 
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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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| Jul 1, 2014 | Congrats to JT Koerber and Jason Porter on their new positions. 
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| May 16, 2014 | 
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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| May 1, 2014 | 
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 | 
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. 
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| Dec 7, 2011 | Graduate student Emily Crawford publishes Tips for writing your first scientific literature review article in ASBMB Today. 
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