March 30, 2026
Nicole was an invited speaker at two RNA conferences this month - the Keystone RNA Modifications symposium in Colorado and the Upstate New York RNA Symposium in Albany - where she presented talks titled "Regulatory Features Driving Pseudouridine Synthase Activity."
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November 15, 2025
We kept our annual tradition alive with yet another wonderful Labsgiving potluck at Nicole's home. Happy Thanksgiving!
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October 31, 2025
Nicole and Wendy recently attended The Epitranscriptome meeting at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, where Wendy presented a talk entitled "Pseudouridines and PUS7 are regulated during neurodevelopment." Congratulations to Wendy for her outstanding talk!
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August 14, 2025
We had our third annual joint retreat with the Niederer Lab from the University of Michigan this summer. We enjoyed exploring the outdoors and bonding over our shared love for RNA!
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July 11, 2025
Our lab recently hosted the CSB departmental Happy Hour, where we celebrated summer with a variety of snacks and cold drinks. Thank you to everyone who joined!
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June 5, 2025
Nicole and Becca recently attended the 30th annual RNA Society Meeting in San Diego. Nicole chaired a session focused on RNA modifications, while Becca presented a talk titled "Investigating the Sequence, Structure, and Cell-Type Specificity of PUS7-Mediated Pseudouridylation with Nanopore Sequencing" to an audience of over 1,000 attendees. Congratulations to Becca on her successful talk!
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April 1, 2025
Zoya Gauhar and Kailey Worner, first-year graduate students in Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Biology respectively, have started their rotations in our lab!
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Ronit was awarded a poster prize at the Bay Area RNA Club meeting in San Francisco for his poster titled "Investigating PUS7 Function Using Long-Read Nanopore Sequencing Approaches to Pseudouridine Detection." His research focused on the role of pseudouridine synthase PUS7 in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Congratulations, Ronit!
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November 9, 2024
Our yearly Labsgiving celebration was filled with friendship, delicious food, and fun times!
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October 18, 2024
Nico and Ronit presented research at The Complex Life of RNA Symposium, hosted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany.
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September 27, 2024
Our lab hosted the CSB departmental Happy Hour on Friday, September 27. The fall-themed spread, featuring chocolate tasting and mulled wine, was a hit with everyone!
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September 23, 2024
Laney Flanagan and Olga Merino-Chavez, two first-year CSB graduate students, have started their three month rotations in our lab!
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September 14, 2024
We enjoyed paella at our lab’s yearly summer party!
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September 13, 2024
Our lab participated in back-to-back retreats in Monterey hosted by the Developmental Biology and Chemical and Systems Biology departments. Congratulations to Janie Kim for winning the Mansour Prize for Best Poster!
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September 4, 2024
Nicole Martinez was a speaker at the Packard Fellows Symposium at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, organized by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
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June 16, 2024
The Martinez Lab held our second annual retreat with the Niederer Lab from the University of Michigan at Yosemite National Park this summer. We had a blast sharing our love for RNA and the outdoors with our colleagues and friends.
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April 12, 2024
Our lab hosted the Developmental Biology departmental Happy Hour.
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December 22, 2022
Our holiday celebrations included lab decorations, a Secret Santa and a visit to the lovely gardens at Filoli.
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October 23, 2022
Pumpkin carving, apple cider and mulled wine.
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October 14, 2022
The Developmental Biology retreat took place at the Monterey Tides and the Chemical and Systems Biology retreat was at Asilomar. Shout out to grad student Becca Rodell for winning the 2nd Best Talk Mansour Prize at the CSB retreat!
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