Alumni

MCIP Alumni!
Please share with us about your time at MCIP (year graduated and PI) and what you're doing now (if you have a lab or personal link that you would like to share, that would be awesome)! 

12 comments:

  1. Hello all, Kristi Bezold here! I am pleased to be the first alumni to join the SYNAPSE page! A little about me:

    MCIP:
    PI: Samantha Harris, PhD
    Area: Cardiac muscle physiology
    Thesis: Evidence for a Role of Actin-Binding in the Regulatory Role of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C
    Graduation: October 2013

    Current:
    Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
    PI: Dan Bernstein, co-mentor: Jim Spudich
    Project: Understanding the genotype to phenotype connection in hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy due to mutations in β myosin heavy chain using human inducible pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.
    Email: klbezold@stanford.edu

    Cheers!
    Kristi

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  2. Thanks for the update Kristi, and glad to hear that you are doing so well!

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  3. Wow, so impressed that MCIP now has it's own blogspot!

    Breanna Wallace

    MCIP....
    PI: Martha O'Donnell, PhD
    Area: Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Emphasis in Biotechnology & Translational Research
    Thesis: Ischemia-induced Stimulation of the Blood Brain Barrier Na-K-Cl Cotransporter: Evidence for the Role of Kinase Pathways
    Graduation: September 2011

    Current...
    Position: Scientist
    Area: Translational Medicine - Biomarker development and Clinical Trial Management
    Company: OncoMed Pharmaceuticals
    Contact: breanna.wallace@gmail.com or you can find me on LinkedIn

    Just remember grad school is only a small blip on the journey of life. The most important skills I took away were problem solving, learning when to chart a new path and have confidence in what I know. Always remember to network and take some time to build great friendships. My cohort still meets yearly to enjoy new successes and reminisce about the past!

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  4. Kristin Evans

    MCIP:
    PI: Anita Oberbauer, PhD
    Area: Bone growth physiology
    Thesis: Pamidronate effects on bone growth and growth plate cartilage turnover in the oim mouse model for osteogenesis imperfecta
    Graduation: December 2006

    Current:
    Position: Director of Vivarium and Veterinary Services - Mouse Biology Program UC Davis
    Email: kevans@ucdavis.edu
    Website: www.mousebiology.org

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  5. Hey MCIP Peeps,

    MCIP:
    Graduated: June 2009
    PI: Alla Fomina, PhD
    Area: Calcium Signaling in T Lymphocytes

    Current:
    Company: Syapse (www.syapse.com)
    Position: Software Engineer
    Goal: Bring 'omics' to healthcare
    Connect: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sepdadsetan

    Salud,
    Sep

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  6. Hi all,

    Keri Hayakawa

    MCIP:
    Graduated: December 2012
    PI: Jason Eiserich
    Thesis: Mechanisms of Indoxyl Sulfate-Induced Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction and Compromised Innate Immunity: Implications for Chronic Kidney Disease

    Current:
    Position: Postdoctoral Scholar in the Lein lab, UC Davis
    Area: Developmental neurotoxicology
    email: kahayakawa@ucdavis.edu

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  7. Hey everyone!
    Here's my info:

    MCIP/graduate work:
    PI: Helen Raybould, PhD
    Area: GI physiology
    Thesis: The Role of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Nutrient Sensing in Inflammatory Disease
    Graduation: September 2013

    Current:
    Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital
    PI: Edda Fiebiger, PhD
    Project/Area: Dendritic cell regulation of immunometabolism and maintenance of oral tolerance in the setting of obesity.
    Email: elizabeth.martin@childrens.harvard.edu

    Great seeing you all on here!
    Liz

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  8. Yay MCIP!

    Alice Liou

    MCIP:
    Graduated: December 2010
    PI: Helen Raybould, PhD
    Area: Gastrointestinal Physiology
    Thesis: Identification of chemosensors mediating cholescystokinin secretion in response to fatty acids, amino acids, and protein hydrolysates in enteroendocrine cells.

    Current:
    Position: Senior Scientist
    Company: Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development
    Area: Early drug discovery within the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Research Unit.
    Find me on Linked In! :)

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  9. Hi Everyone, great to see you all in such exciting places!

    Richard Myers

    MCIP:
    Graduated: June 2013
    PI: Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD
    Area: Cardiovascular Research
    Dissertation Title: Regulation of Cardiac Ion Channels

    Current Position: Staff Scientist
    Company: Takeda Pharmaceuticals, San Diego
    Area: Drug discovery in cardiovascular and metabolic disease
    Connect with me on linkedin, I'll accept!

    All the best,
    Richard

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  10. Hey everyone,
    For those of you who don't know me, I got both a MS and PhD from MCIP, but from different labs, hence the breakdown below.

    Adam Ross

    MCIP:
    Graduated- September 2014
    PI: Kostas Zarbalis- PhD; Sue Bodine- MS (2009)
    Area: Neural crest development (PhD); Genetics of muscle atrophy (MS)
    Thesis (MS): Investigating the effects of a MuRF1 null deletion in skeletal muscle
    mRNA transcript levels in Mus musculus
    Dissertation: Novel Insight Into the Role of Ribosomopathies in Craniofacial Development (PhD)

    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSF
    PI: Dr. Ben Cheyette
    Project: Exploring the role of Wnt signaling in psychiatric disease and neural development.

    My UCD email is good forever: apross@ucdavis.edu

    Cheers,
    -AR

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  11. Hi MCIPers! Below is a bit about me... feel free to contact me via linkedin or gcrocker@csusm.edu!

    Name: George Crocker
    Graduated: December 2013
    PI: Jim Jones
    Current position: Adjunct Professor, CSU San Marcos
    LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgecrocker
    Dissertation: Combined effects of hypoxia, hypercapnia, carbon monoxide and acute lung injury on oxygen transport and aerobic capacity
    Dissertation research subjects: goats
    Advice: Have an open mind and play IM sports.

    All the best,

    George

    "It's good to have an end to journey toward; but it's the journey that matters, in the end." -Ernest Hemingway

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  12. Hi everyone! Here's a little about me...

    Anthony ("Tony") Herren

    MCIP:
    Graduated: March 2015
    PI: Donald M. Bers, PhD
    Area: Cardiovascular Physiology
    Dissertation: Contribution of CaMKII phosphorylation of the cardiac sodium channel
    to heart failure and arrhythmia

    Current:
    Position: UC Davis Proteomics Core (Genome Center)
    Area: proteomics, chromatography, discovery and targeted mass spectrometry applications

    Find me on linkedin or shoot me an email (awherren@ucdavis.edu)!

    Best wishes,

    Tony

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