Check out my dear colleague and Duke Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program director Dr. Mike Boyce (@BoyceLab) Duke University School of Medicine Spotlight, discussing all his contribution to DEI programs at Duke and nationwide through American Society for Cell Biology! Thanks for all you do, Mike!

medschool.duke.edu/blog/edi-spotl…

Our speakers for June! Science talks will be in spanish and refreshments will be provided!

As I have been lucky enough to win another mentoring award I also want to acknowledge my failures . I would say these are my top ten failures

Bonus: over mentoring is a thing! I sometimes want to help prevent future situations that others don’t see. I also am a little naive

NOA just received to sponsor a summer program for community college students, undergraduate and medical students to understand how human pathogens use molecules like proteins to cause damage to our cells and possible ways to develop new drugs.
Link: forms.office.com/r/Ybc3dL0s3j

We’re especially excited & honored to hear from our Keynote Speaker, Dr. AJ Hinton (Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton)) on ‘Unlimited Access: Achieving Lofty Goals Through Holistic and Intentional Mentoring.’ Thank you Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton) for spending the day with the SD IRACDA Community!

Learned so much about the capabilities of SBF-SEM from Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton)! Such a fun a visit and truly an honor to host you for a seminar visit at UCSD BioSciences♥️♥️♥️ The leaders in this picture gives me so much hope. JoAnn Trejo - Unity, Decency, Science & Yes, Truth Lisa M. Jones Lab Elizabeth Villa Prof. Brian Aguado

I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure! Grateful to all my Ph.D. Students, Postdoc, lab manager, technicians, undergrads, faculty mentors, and funding for making this possible! UCI BioSci PPFP Info SD IRACDA Melanoma Research NIAID Funding Department of Defense 🇺🇸

Happening today at 11 am!

What a fun collaboration with Rachel Torrez! Thank you for showcasing my two passions, scientific pursuit and mentorship which is the most rewarding aspect of being PI♥️♥️♥️ #SeeingDiversity BUMMP UCSD BioSciences

🚨 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars applications are due in TWO DAYS 🚨

Make sure to get your applications in by Wednesday, May 15, 3pm EST!

Submit here: hhmi.news/4bxYJIx

And we're also excited that Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton) will be the keynote speaker for our annual SD IRACDA retreat!

Next week I’ll be hosting my dear friend Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton) for a seminar visit at UCSD BioSciences! Please stop by to hear Hinton Laboratory at Vanderbilt lab’s amazing research on the role of MICOS in mitochondrial integrity!

🚨🚨 New preprint alert from our lab led by the amazing Adonis Rubio describing structural investigation and engineering of bispecific antibody constructs resilient to all SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern to date!!! 🙌🏾🔬❄️🦠

Super excited for our Second Seminar Installment featuring Christian Cazares, PhD 🇲🇽🧠! Covering “A Balancing Act!” Tomorrow at Noon!

Registration link:
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Happy Leading Edge Fellow day!!!

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MIT president Sally Kornbluth: “We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work.”

So what does work? What are these 'many ways' to build an inclusive environment?

We are at the last stretch so please don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity and APPLY for the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program🤩🤩🤩HHMI NEWS

It was such a pleasure to host Jose L. McFaline-Figueroa during his visit to UCSD BioSciences. His work is so exciting! We packed his schedule. Talk in Spanish for CaSAS_UCSD, EDI connections event, meetings with faculty and lunch with students. Gracias por la visita, José.

This is IMPACT💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽BUMMP

I had an amazing experience at this year’s BUMMP Annual Student Symposium after receiving research funding support as a BRAP scholar. Thanks to my graduate mentors Christopher Lee and Raymundo Miranda, as well as all Tye Lab members for their encouragement and support 🫶