On June 3, 2010, Sabrina Lin, a PhD student in Dr. Talbot's lab, successfully defended her PhD research in an open seminar that was part of our spring seminar series. On 6-13-2010, Sabrina participated in the UCR graduation ceremonies, was hooded, and officially became Dr. Sabrina Lin. Sabrina is the first UCR student to receive...

Tobacco-related disease kills more people world wide than any other single factor. In the United States alone, 400,000 people die each year from tobacco-related disease. Stem cell researchers at UC Riverside will be contributing to our understanding of tobacco's effect on human development using novel stem cell technologies. This year, two of our stem cell...

The annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research was held this June in San Francisco. Three UCR labs attended the annual meeting and presented their work. Dr. zur Nieden's lab presented a number of posters done on her work both in Germany and at UCR. Her PhD graduate student Ivan Martinez (a...