
Martinez Lab Welcomes Two Rotating Students
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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Zoya Gauhar and Kailey Worner, first-year graduate students in Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Biology respectively, have started their rotations in our lab!
Read MoreDecember 17, 2024
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!
Read MoreNovember 9, 2024
Our yearly Labsgiving celebration was filled with friendship, delicious food, and fun times!
Read MoreOctober 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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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!
Read MoreSeptember 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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We enjoyed paella at our lab’s yearly summer party!
Read MoreSeptember 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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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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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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Our lab hosted the Developmental Biology departmental Happy Hour.
Read MoreDecember 22, 2022
Our holiday celebrations included lab decorations, a Secret Santa and a visit to the lovely gardens at Filoli.
Read MoreOctober 23, 2022
Pumpkin carving, apple cider and mulled wine.
Read MoreOctober 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!
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2022
Our theme was Hometown Happy Hour featuring treats from where lab members are from.
Read MoreJuly 8, 2022
Matias Montes joins the lab as the first Postdoc and Nico Robalin joins the lab as our second graduate student.
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We are thrilled to welcome Rebecca Rodell from Chemical and Systems Biology as the first graduate student to officially join the lab.
Read MoreMay 2, 2022
Our long-awaited -80C freezer arrived today! Naturally, a freezer photo shoot was in order #newPI #smallwins. Freezer pictured with awesome rotation student Jada Lauren Garzon.
Read MoreApril 7, 2022
We have never been as excited for a Western.
Read MoreJanuary 3, 2022
We are located in the ChEM-H building W127 (lab neighborhood) and W119 (Nicole's office).
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