Two of our technicians, June and Pratima, were accepted into PhD programs for Fall 2024!
June will be attending Stanford (Biology Department) and Pratima will be moving to UC Irvine (Biomedical Engineering). We were fortunate to have these two wonderful technicians in the lab for 2 years and wish them all the best in their academic journey!
The Biology department announced the 2024 NSF Fellowship recipients, and we are proud to congratulate James Zwierzynski (Year-1) on being one of five students who received this award!
From the Biology department: We are excited to update you that the 2024 NSF fellowship recipients have been announced and once again Biology PhD students took several top honors! Please join us in congratulating these current and recently admitted Biology students for receiving NSF fellowships:
Current students
Hannah Clayton, Year 2, Goldbogen lab
Nim Robles, Year 1, Schumer lab
Cesar Mena, Year 1
James Zwierzynski, Year 1, Red-Horse lab
Incoming Student
Jordan Kalai, Incoming student, CMOB
Also, congratulations to current students Sabrina Daley, Bri Johnson, Abu Sangare, and Max Madrzyk for receiving Honorable Mention!
Ragini Phansalkar graduated from Stanford School of Medicine this past weekend and matched at Stanford Medicine’s Pathology program!
She was a Genetics MSTP student who defended her thesis (Convergence of Blood Vessel Lineages During Mouse and Human Heart Development) in 2021.
Best of luck in residency!
We are delighted to welcome James Zwierzynski as a graduate student in the lab! He is in the Biology department, and previously rotated in lab Summer ‘23.
The Stanford Biology DEIB Committee will be hosting Dr. Charla Lambert (President of SACNAS and DEI Officer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) for special events October 2nd and 3rd!
Monday, October 2, 2023:
Trainee lunch with Dr. Lambert, 12-1:30 PM, Bass Courtyard
Dr. Lambert’s Seminar, 4 PM, Clark Auditorium
Tuesday, October 3, 2023:
A day with Dr. Charla Lambert, 9 AM-1 PM at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
Community Mixer, 4-6 PM, Bass Courtyard
For more information on Dr. Lambert’s work, please visit:
Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory Office of DEI
This year, we are tryin something new, focusing on select themes:
Developmental Vascular Biology and Genetics
Inflammation
Matrix Biology and Bioengineering
Signaling
Microcirculation
Imaging
Translational Research
For more information and the preliminary program, please visit:
NAVBO 2023
Congratulations on commencement, Dr. Rios Coronado!
The 2023 Biology Department Diploma Ceremony was held on Sunday, June 18th 2023.
Stanford awards the Frances Lou Kallman Award to a female graduate student in recognition of special excellence in coursework, teaching and/or research. This year, the award went to our very own Pam Rios, and fellow Biology student Aurora Alvarez-Buylla.
Congrats!!!
For more information and past awardees, please visit: Kallman Award
Congratulations to Azalia (Developmental Biology) and Millie (MD/PhD - Biophysics) who passed their PhD Qualifying Exams! Cheers!
Kristy was recently highlighted in QuantaMagazine in a Q&A piece by Claudia Dreifus, titled “She Studies Growing Arteries to Aid Heart Attack Recovery”
“Kristy Red-Horse, an associate professor of biology at Stanford University and a member of the school’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, has become a leader in the pursuit of that understanding. She has published groundbreaking studies on the origins of blood vessels in the hearts of mammals. The hope is that what she and her colleagues have learned about the growth of those vessels during fetal development could help rescue the heart after a heart attack.”
To read the article, please visit: Kristy on QuantaMagazine
Pam was awarded the CVI Manuscript Award for her 2022-published paper titled “Blood Flow Modeling Reveals Improved Collateral Artery Performance During the Regenerative Period in Mammalian Hearts” published in “Nature Cardiovascular Research”.
For access to the paper, please visit: Nature Cardiovascular Research
Cover of Nature Cardiovascular Research Vol.1 No.8
Image: Suhaas Anbazhakan and Pamela E. Rios Coronado. Cover Design: Bethany Vukomanovic
Kristy, Alanna, and June enjoyed gathering with a beautiful group of Native Scientists at the second annual QBI Full Circle Symposium at UCSF!
QBI hosts the 2nd Annual Full Circle of Native and Indigenous Scientists in Quantitative Biology symposium. For more information, visit: QBI’s Website
“Organized by Willow Coyote-Maestas, QBI presents the 2nd annual “Full Circle of Native and Indigenous Scientists in Quantitative Biology” symposium on November 17 and 18, 2022. The symposium will highlight Native and Indigenous scientists across the United States, and provide them with professional development and community building opportunities.”
For more information, please visit: UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute
Suhaas and Pam recently published their work “Blood flow modeling reveals improved collateral artery performance during the regenerative period in mammalian hearts” and landed on the cover! Read their work here: Volume 1 Issue 8, August 2022
“The figure adapted from Anbazhakan et al. represents imaging (black and white), hemodynamic forces (magenta), and collateral artery tracing (cyan) in a cohesive collage. The use of a collage symbolizes the interdisciplinary nature of this work.” - nature cardiovascular research
Congratulations Suhaas, now formally Dr. Anbazhakan!
He defended his thesis on “Evaluating the Impact of Coronary Collateral Flow in Mammalian Hearts” on August 16th with some of his closest friends and family in attendance. Suhaas was co-mentored by the Marsden and Red-Horse labs, and masterfully combined his passion for engineering and biology to work on his multidisciplinary project. See his latest publication on the cover of Nature Cardiovascular Research here.
The Red-Horse Lab has a new graduate student, Azalia Martinez Jaimes (Developmental Biology)!
We are very excited to have her on our team and wish her a warm welcome!
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced the recipients of the prestigious 2022 Hertz Fellowships in applied science, mathematics and engineering, including Millie Trimm! She is one of 13 recipients amongst the most competitive programs in the country.
Congratulations on the huge honor!
“Over the foundation’s 59-year history of awarding fellowships, more than 1,200 Hertz Fellows have established a remarkable track record of accomplishments. Their ranks include two Nobel laureates; recipients of eight Breakthrough Prizes and three MacArthur Foundation “genius awards”; and winners of the Turing Award, the Fields Medal, the National Medal of Technology and the National Medal of Science. In addition, 48 are members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and 32 are fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hertz Fellows hold over 3,000 patents, have founded more than 375 companies, and have created hundreds of thousands of science and technology jobs.”
For more information on the Hertz Foundation, please visit: Hertz Foundation 2022 Fellow Announcement
The Red-Horse lab is growing! Please welcome Dani K. (Bioengineering PhD student) and Daniel S. (Postdoc Fellow)!
We are delighted to have you among us. On behalf of all the members, we would like to extend our warmest welcome and good wishes!
