Jery has been awarded a BARI postdoctoral fellowship to study the lipid droplet proteome in the context of brain aging and neurodegeneration.... Read More
Jordan successfully defended his thesis titled ” Regulation of Somatic Cell Fate by Escargot in Drosophila testis.” Congratulations Dr. Kryza!... Read More
Check out Marie’s new paper on mTORC1’s role in the differentiation of GSC’s in the Drosophila testis. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300337... Read More
Welcome Amelie to the Jones lab! Amelie Delcourt is in the Tetrad program and is Leanne’s first new graduate student at UCSF!... Read More
Congratulations to Rachel on her work on bark beetle’s essential role in the homeostasis of the drosophila posterior midgut! https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)00978-1... Read More
We are looking for people who love stem cells, aging, and metabolism to join us! Contact Leanne Jones for more information.... Read More
How does Redox signaling affect germ stem cell identity and behavior? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0891584921000745?via%3Dihub... Read More
When is a septate junction protein not a septate junction protein? When it’s moonlighting as an activator of EGFR signaling! https://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/fulltext/S2213-6711(21)00201-0 ... Read More
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Excited to highlight Marie and Rafael’s recent reviews on lipid metabolism in stem cells- check them out! https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2020.00115/full https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047637420300749?via%3Dihub... Read More
Congratulations to Sophie for her work on assessing aging in human intestinal organoids! https://www.cmghjournal.org/article/S2352-345X(19)30168-7/fulltext... Read More
We are excited to share Rafael’s work on the role of mitochondrial fusion in stem cell maintenance, published in Nature Cell Biology! Congrats Rafa! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-019-0332-3 ... Read More
We welcome Nick to the lab and congratulate him on being appointed to the Cellular and Molecular Biology T32 Training Program!... Read More
Congratulations to our undergraduates, Mateo and Nathan, for their summer research awards! Mateo received the COMPASS Life Sciences Dean’s Award and Nathan was accepted to the CARE Fellows Program. (Image created by macrovector, www.freepik.com)... Read More
Emma and Joanna were awarded the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program Scholarship for their strong commitment to research. (Image created by macrovector, www.freepik.com)... Read More
Rachel and Jordan join the Jones Lab to complete their thesis projects and are both awarded the Cellular and Molecular Biology Training Grant!... Read More
Sophie successfully defended her thesis titled “Molecular differences between human small intestine and colon stem and progenitor cells.” Congratulations Dr. Lewis!... Read More
Several of our undergraduate alumni are beginning their exciting next chapters: Bradley is starting medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Alex is starting graduate school at MIT, and Fernando accepted a position as an Oak Ridge Institute for […]... Read More
Chris Koehler’s work (2017) was included in a JCB collection titled “Stem Cells and Development.” The collection consists of recently published, highly read JCB papers investigating morphogenesis, pluripotency and reprogramming, as well as stem cell function during adulthood, aging, and […]... Read More
Our undergraduate researchers have been featured in a DailyBruin article titled “Growing with Guidance” about mentorship on campus. https://dailybruin.com/2018/06/10/gallery-growing-with-guidance... Read More
Chris’ work “Pink1 and Parkin regulate Drosophila intestinal stem cell proliferation during stress and aging” was featured in a collection of JCB papers highlighting new findings in mitochondrial biology and autophagy. An image from his paper was used to spotlight […]... Read More
Congratulations to Martin and the Jones Lab for their new publication in Fly!... Read More
The Jones lab is excited to announce its new members! Marie joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow, and Kyle and Nathan are our new undergraduate researchers!... Read More
Congratulations to Chris Koehler for his recent publication in the Journal of Cell Biology!... Read More
Bradley is awarded the Dean’s Prize Science Award Honoring Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers for his project.... Read More
Congratulations to alumnus Pedro Resende for his publication in Developmental Biology!... Read More
Three new undergrads join the Jones Lab: Welcome Joanna, Richie, and Eljie!... Read More
Santiago joins the lab as a new postdoctoral fellow! He is also selected as a UCLA Postdocs Longitudinal Investment in Faculty Training (UPLIFT) Program Fellow. ... Read More
Fernando joins the lab as a new undergraduate researcher! His research is funded by the NIH-MARC Training Grant (UCLA).... Read More
Melissa and Daniel are headed to graduate school at the University of California-San Francisco. Congratulations to Melissa and Daniel!!!... Read More
Mariano is moving to California State University-Northridge as a new Assistant Professor. Congratulations and Best of Luck, Mariano!!!... Read More