To all the new CMB and other graduate students, welcome to UCI! The sun might be setting earlier but don’t worry you can still head to the beach for another few (12) months.

Journal club this week was a paper from Andrew Olive’s lab on CRISPR screening in macrophages, which Jessie is optimizing and we’re excited to be performing a forward genetic screen in host cells. The Cancer Research Institute had a picnic yesterday, thanks for putting that together CRI!

We’re busy writing manuscripts and are excited to share our new findings with the world 🙂 I’m also busy writing my first R01 and R21 – I need a more comfortable chair. Fingers crossed on these submissions, check in next month to see if we have submitted a manuscript!