Lab Alumna Akela Kuwahara awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award

A huge congratulations goes to lab and UCSF DSCB program alumna Akela Kuwahara, who has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to enable her to work as a visiting professor at Ilia State University in Tbilisi Georgia where she is teaching NGS and bioinformatics methods and developmental biology.

The lab is awarded the Marylou Buyse Excellence in Craniofacial Research award

In recognition of the lab's "outstanding contributions to the craniofacial sciences" it was awarded the "Marylou Buyse Distinguished Scientist in Craniofacial Research Award" from the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology.

Abby Kindberg completes her Ph.D. thesis dissertation

BMS student Abbigail Kindberg gave an outstanding Ph.D. seminar presenting the findings of her thesis, entitled "Regulation of cell contact and tissue organization by Eph/ephrin signaling". Though presented on Zoom, it was extremely well-attended with an international audience and delivered...

Congratulations to Akela Kuwahara on her Ph.D. dissertation

In February 2020, graduate student Akela Kuwahara presented her exit seminar to complete her Ph.D requirments!

BMS student Abby Kindberg chosen to speak at the Bay Area Cytoskeleton meeting

BMS graduate student Abby Kindberg was selected to present on Eph/ephrin signaling in tissue organization in a talk at the Bay Area Cytoskeleton Symposium entitled "Regul

DSCB graduate student chosen to give a talk at the Bay Area Stem Cell Conference

May, 2019-Graduate student Akela Kuwahara chosen to give a talk at the Bay Area Stem Cell Conference

Congratulations to Terren Niethamer, first Bush lab Ph.D. student!

BMS graduate student Terren Niethamer presented her exit seminar to complete her Ph.D requirements! Terren joined the Bush lab in 2014 and accomplished a tremendous amount in her time in the lab. Amongst her achievements, was establishment of the first hiPSC model of a human craniofacial syndrome.

Congratulations to Post-doc Audrey O'Neill on her position at Invitae

Post-doc Audrey O'Neill will begin a new position at Invitae, a genetic information company that focuses on bringing genetic testing into mainstream medical practice. She has had a very productive post-doctoral fellowship, publishing a first-author paper in JCB and contributing to two other...