Elisa Zhang, Ph.D.

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Happy to have started as an @hhmi.org Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! Incredibly grateful for this opportunity and am excited for some very cool new directions! We are *HIRING*, especially postdocs! Please reach out if you’re interested in uterine and pregnancy biology. Please repost!

‼️New paper and surgical procedure video from #PMB Zhang Lab. Congrats, Nathan Ng and @elisazhang.bsky.social ! @ucdavishealth.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavismedschool.bsky.social

Thank you, Fernando!

Mouse Model of Surgical Uterine Injury and Subsequent Pregnancy Outcomes | Protocol Scientific Article | This protocol describes a procedure for inducing uterine injury in a mouse model, followed by downstream analyses during a subsequent...

We’re happy to share that our methods paper and video on our mouse uterine injury surgical procedure is now out in JoVE! First paper of the lab! Congrats to first author Nathan Ng! review.jove.com/t/67977/mous...

Check out this awesome study from my phenomenally talented colleague @accorsi-alice.bsky.social ! Apple snails can regrow their eyes! How do they do this? 👀 Read below ⬇️ to find out more! #regeneration

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A big thanks to NC Rep. Valerie Foushee for being the first signature on this bipartisan letter urging the House to maintain a strong commitment to funding for NIH in the 2026 Appropriations bill. Is your Representative here?
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Wow, congrats, @rogerslabucd.bsky.social !! 👏

@saramostafavi.bsky.social (@Genentech) & I (@Stanford) r excited to announce co-advised postdoc positions for candidates with deep expertise in ML for bio (especially sequence to function models, causal perturbational models & single cell models). See details below. Pls RT 1/

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Happy Juneteenth, and congrats!

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Congrats also to @doctheagrif.bsky.social and Sergey Stavisky on the McKnight!

UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

I’m thrilled to have been selected as an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, along with my wonderful #PMB colleague @doctheagrif.bsky.social Excited for what’s to come - we’re just getting started! 🚀 @ucdavis.bsky.social
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The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.

Congratulations to all the amazing scientists named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by HHMI. We’re immensely honored to have two #PMB faculty members, @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social , among this inspiring group. An incredible and well-deserved achievement! @ucdavis.bsky.social

And thank you, Crystal!

Thank you, Brandon!

Thank you, Anna! We’re so happy to have @hhmi.org’s support and are excited to do some cool science.

The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.

Congratulations to our own Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com who has been named as one of 30 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars for 2025 by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). So well deserved deserved !! www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

Massive crowd of No Kings marchers.

Massive crowd of No Kings marchers.

Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings

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"However, while AI and other non-animal research methods—such as computational models, advanced cell cultures, and organ-on-chip technologies, represent exciting progress, it is important to stress that they complement rather than replace animal models."

There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.

An excellent op-ed from @socdevbio.bsky.social president Carole LaBonne @labonnelab.bsky.social. Our lab uses both animal models and human organoids. We believe these to be complementary approaches, each with their respective strengths and limitations. www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...

Check out our department's newest 5-min. podcast episode on our research! @zhanglab.bsky.social #PMB #uterus

#3: Uterine Injury—Zhang Lab UC Davis PMB—Physiology Talks · Episode

New on Physiology Talks podcast🎤🔬: Episode #3 features research published from #PMB Zhang Lab @elisazhang.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social — it explores how uterine injury from procedures like C-sections can affect future pregnancy outcomes. Note: podcast uses AI. open.spotify.com/episode/3Z0u...

Opinion | The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research They’re Killing (Gift Article) Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.

"Given the very real consequences for our competitiveness, our standard of living and, yes, also our bottom lines, we all ought to be making the case for aggressively funding basic science."
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

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