Br-Ün News
April 2024: Camila passes her qualifying exam!!
April 2024: Camila is awarded an NSF Predoctoral Fellowship!!
April 2024: AZ is awarded the Rosehill Fellowship for summer research!
March 2024: Beike is accepted into the HKU Summer Research Program!
March 2024: Alanna is accepted into a PhD program at MIT!
November 2023: Giselle Uribe rotates in the Brar lab! Scarleth Ulloa rotates in the Ünal lab!
September 2023: Ngan Phan rotates in the Brar lab! Giselle Uribe rotates in the Ünal lab!
August 2023: Tina Sing is awarded a Longevity Impetus Grant!
June 2023: Camila Sousa joins the Brar lab!!!
May 2023: Andrea is the latest PhD from the Brar lab!!! Congratulations Dr. Higdon!
May 2023: Anthony, Kate, and Amanda are the latest PhDs from the Ünal lab!!! Congratulations Drs. Harris, Morse, and Su!
May 2023: Camila Sousa rotates in the Brar lab!
April 2023: Claudia Medrano passes her qualifying exam!!
April 2023: Siri Yendluri is going to UCSD for graduate school!
March 2023: Ben Styler passes his qualifying exam!!
March 2023: Maia Reyes is awarded an outstanding GSI award!
March 2023: Ben Styler and Claudia Medrano are both awarded NSF predoctoral fellowships!
March 2023: Claudia Medrano is offered a Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowship!
March 2023: Naohiro Kuwayama joins the Brar lab with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science!!
March 2023: Jan Cajulao rotates in the Brar lab!
February 2023: Charlene Chan is accepted into the Berkeley Biophysics PhD program!
February 2023: Silvan Spiri joins the Brar lab with a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship!!
January 2023: Anna Trzcinski rotates in the Brar lab!
December 2022: Jessica Leslie joins the lab for her PhD!
September 2022: Kat Flug and Simon Chau rotate in the Brar lab!
September 2022: Tina Sing won the outstanding postdoc award in GGED!
September 2022: Andrea Higdon won the talk prize at the departmental CDP retreat!
August 2022: Kate Morse was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the Yeast Genetics Meeting!
August 2022: Grant King is now officially Dr. Grant King!!! Congrats to the latest Ünal lab PhD recipient!
August 2022: Emily Powers and Helen Vander Wende are the latest PhDs from the Brar lab!!! Congratulations to Dr. Powers and Dr. Vander Wende!
May 2022: We are so proud that Helen was awarded the Cris Alvaro Memorial Prize at MCB graduation for embodying excellence in both research and commitment to diversity, inclusion, and sense of community
April 2022: Ben Styler joins the Ünal lab!!! Claudia Medrano joins the Brar lab!!!
April 2022: Alena and Matty are recipients of NSF fellowships!!
April 2022: Alena Bishop and Matty Walsh completed their quals!!! (email announcement here)
February 2022: The Brar lab welcomes Izaiah Ornelas and Mari Brady for the third rotation! The Ünal lab welcomes Ben Styler!
November 2021: The Ünal lab welcomes Lily Rahmana and Cordell Clark for the second rotation! The Brar lab welcomes Megan Onyundo and Lidia Llacsahuanga!
October 2021: Tina Sing is awarded a Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in Aging Research!
September 2021: The Brar lab welcomes Anna Horacek and Claudia Medrano for the first rotation!
May 2021: Alena Bishop joins as a joint student in the Ünal and Brar labs!!! Matty Walsh joins as a joint student in the Ünal and Upadhyayula labs!!!
May 2021: Adriana is awarded a Ford fellowship!!
May 2021: Adriana completed her quals!!! (email announcement here)
February 2021: The Ünal lab welcomes Alena Bishop and Berenise Lopez-Lopez for the third rotation!
November 2020: The Brar lab welcomes Shayan Hosseinzadeh and Nathan Cramer for the second rotation!
September 2020: The Ünal lab welcomes Matty Walsh and Giana Cirolia for the first rotation!
August 20th, 2020:Maia Reyes completed her quals!!! (email announcement here)
August 2020: Amy Eisenberg is now Dr. Eisenberg!!!!!!
August 2020: Kate Morse is a recipient of an NIH-F31 Fellowship!!!
May 28th, 2020: Gloria is granted tenure!!!!!
May 8th, 2020: Maia Reyes joins the Brar lab!!! Adriana Mendizabal joins the Ünal lab!!!
April 27th, 2020: Cyrus Ruediger completed his quals!!! (email announcement here)
April 6th, 2020: Costa Bartolutti completed his quals!!! (email announcement here)
February 24th, 2020: Elçin is granted tenure!!!!
February 2020: The Brar lab welcomes Kavya Adiga and Meghan Bacher for the third rotation!
November 2019: The Ünal lab welcomes Jordan Ngo and Martina Velichkovska, and the Brar lab welcomes Jessica Leslie and Maia Reyes for the second rotation!
October 2019: Tina Sing won the Best Postdoc Poster Prize at the GGD Retreat!
September 2019: The Ünal lab welcomes Adriana Mendizabal and Kevin Wickham for the first rotation!
August 2019: Tina Sing is awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC)!
May 2019: Jing is awarded a Cris Alvaro award for her excellence in research and outreach efforts at graduation!!!
May 2019: Ze is awarded a Cozzarelli prize for best thesis at graduation!!!
May 2019: Ze, Yma, Jing and Eric all graduate as MCB PhDs!!! Congratulations to Dr. Cheng, Dr. Tresenrider, Dr. Chen and Dr. Sawyer! Kelsey returns to walk in the ceremony, too!!
May 2019: Amanda Su completed her quals!!! (email announcement here)
April 2019: Kate Morse completed her quals!!! (email announcement here)
April 2019: Costa Bartolutti joins the Brar lab!!! Cyrus Ruediger joins the Ünal lab!!!
March 2019: Tia Cheunkarndee and Mounika Gopi are awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships!!!!
February 2019: The Brar lab welcomes Costa Bartolutti for the third rotation!
November 2018: The Brar lab welcomes Abrar Abidi and the Ünal lab welcomes Cyrus Ruediger and Madison Lehmer for the second rotation!!
November 2018: Tina Sing won the Best Poster Prize at the Bay Area Aging Meeting!
September 2018: The Ünal lab welcomes Kayla Dinshaw and the the Brar lab welcomes Joyner Cruz for the first rotation!!
August 2018: Congratulations to Kelsey!!! In a Br-Ün lab first, she is now Dr. Van Dalfsen!!!
July 2018: Jay Goodman is a recipient of an NIH-F31 Fellowship!!!
July 2018: Ina Hollerer is awarded the Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellowship!!
May 2018: Anthony Harris completed his quals!!! (email announcement here)
May 2018: Andrea Higdon completed her quals!!! (email announcement here)
April 2018: Alec Uebersohn completed his quals!!! (email announcement here)
April 2018: Kate Morse and Amanda Su join the Ünal lab!!!
March 2018: Jing Chen and George Otto are chosen for Outstanding GSI awards!!!
March 2018: Anthony Harris is a recipient of an NSF predoctoral fellowship!!!
January 2018: Tina Sing joins the Ünal lab as a postdoc!!!
December 2017: Amy Tresenrider wins the best talk prize at the Bay Area RNA Meeting!
June 2017: Amy Eisenberg wins the MCF Spring Syposium poster prize!
May 2017: Emily Powers completed her quals!!! And that's a full set, folks :). (extra amazing email announcement here)
April 2017: Alec Uebersohn and Andrea Higdon join the Brar lab!!!
April 2017: Anthony Harris joins the Ünal lab!!!
April 2017: Helen Vander Wende completed her quals!!! (email announcement here)
April 2017: Jay Goodman completed his quals!!! (email announcement here)
March 2017: Helen Vander Wende is chosen for an Outstanding GSI Award!
March 2017: The Br-Ün lab is so proud of our NSF applicants! Emily Powers is a recipient of an NSF predoctoral fellowship!! Helen Vander Wende, Jay Goodman, and Juliet Barker receive Honorable Mention for their fantastic applications!!
March 2017: Grant King completed his quals!!! (email announcement here)
February 2017: The Ünal lab welcomes Justin Roncaioli and the the Brar lab welcomes Alec Uebersohn for the third rotation!!
November 2016: The Ünal lab welcomes Anthony Harris for the second rotation!! The Brar lab welcomes Joseph Paul and Andrea Higdon!!
October 2016: Elçin is awarded an NIH Director's New Innovator Award!
September 2016: Chris's paper is accepted in eLife!!
September 2016: Ze Cheng wins a poster award at the CDB retreat!!
June 2016: Hanna Liao and Pallavi Joshi join the Ünal lab as undergraduate researchers! Soyun Park joins the Brar lab as an undergraduate researcher!
June 15th, 2016: Ina Hollerer becomes our first postdoc! Welcome, Ina!!
June 9th, 2016: Gloria is a Pew Scholar!
April 29th, 2016: Grant King has finally made his decision. :) He will take his talents to the Ünal lab! Find his historic announcement here!
April 28th, 2016: Helen Vander Wende and Emily Powers join the Brar lab!!!
April 28th, 2016: Jay Goodman joins the Ünal lab!!!
April 21st, 2016: Amy E. completed her quals!!!! (email announcement here)
April 20th, 2016: George completed his quals!!!! (email announcement here)
March 29th, 2016: Eric completed his quals!!!! (email announcement here)
February 23rd, 2016: Gloria is awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship!
February 15th, 2016: The Ünal lab welcomes Sara Choo and Jay Goodman for the third rotation!!
November 30th, 2015: The Ünal lab welcomes rotation students Ryan Holly and Grant King!! The Brar lab welcomes rotation students Helen Vander Wende and Chris Duncan-Lewis!!
November, 2015: We are excited to welcome our first postdoc, Ina Hollerer, to the Brar lab!!! She will start with us officially in early summer 2016!
October 25th, 2015: Kelsey wins a prize for her talk at the MCB GGD retreat at Asilomar!!
October 21st, 2015: Amy T. wins a prize for her poster at the international EMBO meeting on the noncoding genome in Heidelberg!!
October 2015: Gloria is awarded an NIH Director's New Innovator Award!
September 28th, 2015: The first rotation begins! The Ünal lab welcomes Ashley Albright and Dylan Carter!! The Brar lab welcomes Emily Powers and Davis Goodnight!!
September 20th, 2015: Amy E. wins a poster prize at the MCB CDB retreat at Granlibakken!!
September 2015: Juliet Barker and Sarah Guo join us as undergraduate researchers!! They'll be working with Eric and Amy E.! Devon Harris joins us as a technician, working with Leon!!
July 2015: George Otto joins the Brar lab!!!
June 8th, 2013: Lawrence Cheung, Sabina Cook, Tiffany Rajah, Laura Torres, and Crystal Zhong join us as undergraduate researchers!!
June 2nd, 2013: Paige Diamond joins us as an Amgen scholar from Drake University!!
May 29th, 2015: Clarence Yeung moves back to UBC to finish up his degree and start grad school applications! We look forward to trying to bring him back to Berkeley! :)
May 13th, 2015: Ze Cheng completed his quals! Some pics here! (email announcement here)
May 8th, 2015: Kelsey Van Dalfsen completed her quals! Pics here! (email announcement here)
May 2015: George Otto rotates in the Brar lab!
April 2015: Amy Eisenberg (Amy Sr.) joins the Brar lab!!!
April 2015: Eric Sawyer joins the Ünal lab!!!
April 21st, 2015: Yma (Amy T) completed her quals! A few pics here. (email announcement here)
April 15th, 2015: Jing completed her quals! A few pics here. (email announcement here)
her quals! Pics from her party here. (email announcement here)
March 2015: Kelsey and Jing are awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships!!!!
March 2015: Adriana Koek leaves us for medical school. We'll miss her! Circus goodbye party pictures here.
January 2015: Elçin and Gloria are both awarded March of Dimes Basil O'Conner Starter Awards!
December 2014: Eric Sawyer and Amit Weiss rotate in the Ünal lab! Alan Wang rotates in the Brar lab!
November 2014: Elçin is named a Damon Runyan-Rachleff Innovation awardee!
October 2014: Gloria receives the Winkler Family Biological Sciences award!
October 2014: Amy Eisenberg and Dom Castanzo rotate in the Brar lab!
September 2014: Nica Sabouni and Clarence Yeung join us as undergraduate researchers!
August 2014: Ünal and Brar lab website launch
July 2014: Elçin is named a Pew Scholar!
June 2014: Katie Conlon and Yuzhang Chen join us as summer students!
June 2014: Jing joins the Ünal lab!!!
May 2014: Amy joins the Ünal lab!!!
May 2014: Kelsey and Ze join the Brar lab!!!
May 2014: Jing Chen rotates in the Ünal lab!
April 2014: Br-Ün lab warming party
March 2014: Jack Wang and Elijah Mena rotate in the Ünal lab!
March 2014: Kelsey Van Dalfsen and Ze Chang rotate in the Brar lab!
February 2014: Heba Farag joins us as media specialist!
January 2014: Brar and Ünal labs (aka Br-Ün lab) officially launch in 628 Barker Hall
December 2014: Amy Tresenrider and Rebecca Lamothe are the first Ünal lab rotation students!
December 2014: Celeste Riepe is the first Brar lab rotation student!
November 2013: The amazing Christiane Brune agrees to join the Ünal and Brar team as lab manager!!!
October 2013: Elçin moves to Berkeley