Jeff Bush

Karin Shamardani, DDS/PhD candidate, is working with Jeff Bush @jeffbush.bsky.social to study how Efnb1 and the understudied actin-regulator gene Shrm4 interact to control palatal outgrowth and mesenchymal organization during craniofacial development.

Circular lab logo consisting of a ball of cells labeled with cyan nuclei and red cilia, surrounded by a white circle and the text Choksi Lab and UCSF. The 'o' in Choksi is a schematic of a multiciliated cell.

I'm thrilled to announce that my lab is opening this August in the Department of Cell & Tissue Biology @ UCSF!

We will study airway stem cells and explore how they generate multiciliated cells (my favorite!) to keep pathogens and debris out of the lung. Check out choksilab.org for more!

CTB welcomes new Assistant Professor Semil Choksi @semilc.bsky.social to the department! The Choksi Lab will study how airway stem cells generate multiciliated cells - and how this process goes wrong in respiratory disease. His lab is opening this August. Visit choksilab.org to learn more!

We’re so lucky you will join us Semil! Can’t wait!

Just recruited two more grad students to be appreciated on Bluesky! @jasminegarciia.bsky.social @davidsungtooth.bsky.social @ophirklein.bsky.social

Happy graduate student appreciation week to David Sung and Luke Lucido!…also trying to encourage them to join Bluesky

Congratulations to Camilla Teng, for winning the "Platform presentation SDB prize" for post-docs at the Northwest SDB meeting, which sounds like it was a fantastic meeting! Camilla will be on the faculty job market soon, so look out for her! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social

UCSF’s Fred Chang Is Honored with Election to AAAS Cell biologist Fred Chang, MD, PhD, has been named a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a highly esteemed lifetime honor within the scientific community.

I'm thrilled to share that CTB faculty Fred Chang has been elected as a AAAS fellow! Congratulations to Fred on this well-deserved honor. @fredchanglab.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social

www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/03/429681/ucsfs-fred-chang-honored-election-aaas

Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease.

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb.

https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj

To my friends and colleagues at UAB, IU, UF, FSU, UL, WashU, OSU, CWRU, etc, etc. Call both your senators and your representative. They listen. Emphasize the direct economic impact of NIH research, and the indirect impacts on pharmaceutical/biotech. Underscore its relevance to national security.

Great new lab opening!…

Vahid Niknezhad joined the Knox lab in 2022 as a postdoctoral scholar, focusing on the development of biomaterials and hydrogels for drug delivery systems and tissue repair technologies. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Helen, a postdoc in the Hutchins lab @drericabiophd.bsky.social, is interested in how RNA binding proteins and modifications contribute to the dynamic process of neural crest cell development, and is also passionate about laboratory waste reduction and scientific illustration.#ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Petria-George Thompson, a postdoc in the Goga lab @andreigoga.bsky.social, is studying mechanisms of CDK2 inhibition as therapeutics for breast cancer and other cancers. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Introducing the 2024 Postdoc Slam Finalists! Meet the 10 postdocs who will give 3-minute talks at our popular annual research communications competition on Sept. 18. The event will be a lively centerpiece to our National Postdoc Appreciation Wee...

Check her out at UCSF postdoc slam!
postdocs.ucsf.edu/news/introdu...

Camilla Teng in the Bush lab @jeffbushman.bsky.social is working to understand cell behaviors and force generators driving development of the upper lip. This mysterious process has relevance to cleft lip, which is the most common congenital anomaly affecting the face. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs