UCSF Broad Stem Cell Center

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Behind every published paper is an inside story! 🧬 Join the SSR Trainee Journal Club for a special session with the Editors-in-Chief of Biology of Reproduction (BOR). 🎙️ Speakers: • Aleksandar Rajkovic, MD, PhD (UCSF) • Jeremy Wang, MD, PhD (UPenn)

Chalk talks don’t have to be a mystery. 🖊️ Robert Mahley breaks down what search committees really want to see—plus a real example in action—in this 2026 updated talk. Heading into faculty job interviews? This one’s for you. #TraineeToTenure #AcademicJobMarket #PostdocLife

Congratulations, @drericabiophd.bsky.social ! We are very #UCSFProud to learn that you've received the Betty Hay Award from @temtia.bsky.social and are excited for your presentation in Taipei 🎉

We are now accepting applications for the SSR Major Awards and the SSR Distinguished Fellowships through Friday, November 13, 2026. Learn More at ssr.org/awards

Could the immune system hold clues to preterm birth? New research from E. Rackaityte, et al. identifies autoantibodies linked to early labor in some pregnancies, opening doors to better risk prediction and potential treatments. www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/10...

To celebrate #StemCellAwarenessDay, we've put together a quick explainer on stem cells: what they are and why they matter! 🧪 #UCLAStemCell #ResearchPowersProgress #StemCellResearch

The Cell Type Knowledge Explorer allows anyone to explore the diversity and complexity of the mouse, human, and non-human primate brain. Explore this free and open resource at: https://bit.ly/4AVqs3m #BICCN #studyBRAIN

We invite you to join our seminar at UCSF Mission Bay campus with @delvecchyo.bsky.social from the National Autonomous University of Mexico humangenetics.ucsf.edu/ihg-seminar-...

Congratulations, Dr. Licia Selleri, recipient of the 2026 David Bixler Distinguished Scientist Award. This is the highest honor of @scgdb.bsky.social, reflecting Dr. Selleri's extensive accomplishments in craniofacial research and contributions to the community. We are #UCSFProud!

Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

What if doctors could use your own tumor to teach your immune system to destroy cancer? UCSF scientists may have found a way. By coating lab-grown immune cells with pieces of a patient’s own tumor, they trained T cells to recognize and attack the cancer. https://ow.ly/JJZ450ZGgZ4

Their work has advanced health and improved lives around the world. Congratulations to the 2026 UCSF Medal recipients on receiving UCSF’s highest honor for their lasting contributions to health and society. www.ucsf.edu/news/2026-ucsf-medal

Take a break and have lunch with Novogene :) humangenetics.ucsf.edu/tech-seminar...

@robertblelloch.bsky.social + team engineered iPSC-derived dendritic cells coated w/ patient tumor membranes to present multiple cancer antigens to T cells. The approach induced tumor-specific T cell responses in patient samples and slowed tumor growth in humanized mice. www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

1/4 Thrilled to launch this space with our latest preprint on the developmental trajectory of Broca's area in the human brain doi.org/10.64898/202...

@ihgatucsf.bsky.social and @ucsfstemcell.bsky.social are excited to invite you to the Genotech Symposium on September 23! 📍 NEW LOCATION: Fisher Banquet Room, 1st Floor, Rutter Center Join us to foster collaboration between industry and academia in genetics and genomics! genotech.ucsf.edu

Congratulations to Kyle Cromer, PhD, on receiving Emily’s Entourage’s first 2026 Translational Research Grant. The project tackles a key challenge in CF gene therapy: helping corrected airway stem cells expand and persist to repair lung tissue. More: www.emilysentourage.org/emilys-entou...

Join researchers exploring neurodevelopmental disorders—from single-cell genomics & gene–environment interactions to emerging therapies | @keystonesymposia.bsky.social 📅 Jan. 19–22 | Breckenridge 🎓 Scholarships + Short Talk Abstracts due Sept 24 keysym.us/KSNDDs27 #KSNDDs27

Congratulations to Dr. Tara McIntyre, selected as a 2026 Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) Fellow to investigate the Mechanisms and consequences of immune aging in reproduction in Dr. Diana Laird's lab: lsrf.org/wp-content/u...  #basicresearch #lifesciences #postdocfunding #earlycareer

@ihgatucsf.bsky.social and @ucsfstemcell.bsky.social are excited to inform you about the annual Genotech Symposium, taking place on 9/23. The goal is to foster collaboration and cross-fertilization between industry and academia in genetics and genomics. Hope to see you there! genotech.ucsf.edu

Exercise protects the brain, and now UCSF researchers may have discovered how: An exercise-induced protein appears to strengthen the blood-brain barrier, slowing decline. “We’re uncovering biology that Alzheimer’s research has largely overlooked,” Saul Villeda says. https://ucsfh.org/4aAJ9OQ

Congratulations, @konjikusicmia.bsky.social. It makes my heart well up to have this cohort named in memory of Zara, an extraordinary scientist.

Congratulations, Corey Harwell, PhD, on being named a 2026 McKnight Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award recipient. His work investigates how brain circuits are built and how disruptions in these pathways may contribute to neurological and developmental disorders: stemcell.ucsf.edu/news/corey-h...

Excited to have the ISSCR 2027 Annual Meeting here in San Francisco! 🧬

Research led by Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucsfstemcell.bsky.social in @nature.com | New map of fetal brain cell development may change our understanding of mental illness and cancer www.earth.com/news/new-map... #UCSFProud

Peng He & colleagues published “Toward informed batch correction for single-cell transcriptome integration” in Nature Computational Science. They review current data cleaning methods & envision interpretable frameworks that model technical + biological variation in single-cell data: rdcu.be/e4cSp

15 years ago today, @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social celebrated the opening of the Ray & Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building on our Parnassus campus. Take a look back at scenes from opening day and move-in, and see what our researchers are working on today: stemcell.ucsf.edu/2024-2025-uc...

The UCSF Broad Stem Cell Center and Department of Surgery invite applications for a new faculty position focused on the development of delivery tools for gene editing to enable cutting-edge gene therapies. Please share and apply 🔗 aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05914

Nature research paper: Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate go.nature.com/4qBG5rp

Researchers in Diana Laird's lab discovered the decline in female fertility w/age isn’t driven solely by eggs; other cells in the ovary, including glia and fibroblasts, influence ovarian health & aging—part of UC’s top discoveries of 2025. #UCSFProud www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/10-awes...

Kyle Cromer's team published collaborative work with Stanford in @bloodadvances.bsky.social using CRISPR tools to create a mouse model of a rare juvenile leukemia. Congrats to Roshani Sinha, Devesh Sharma, & Benjamin Lesch for co-authoring this publication. More: ashpublications.org/bloodadvance...

Our new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happening TODAY! Tune in at noon for #UCSFSOTU 2025 with Chancellor Sam Hawgood. Hear about UCSF’s accomplishments from the past year and how our institution is innovating to adapt for the future. tiny.ucsf.edu/HuBTYF

New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬 An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain! 🧠 Immersive feature: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 🧠 Perspective: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

We love this!! ❤️ #UCSFProud

Happy World CRISPR Day! The CRISPR revolution began with genome editing, but the platform has evolved into a versatile molecular toolkit with wide-ranging applications. The current issue of TiG includes a Review of these applications. Check it out! www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Join us today, 10/16, for Getting to Patients! Dr. Claire Clelland will share “Developing CRISPR gene therapy for C9orf72 FTD/ALS: the path ahead to clinic” with Special Guests and perspectives from a family with the C9orf72 gene tiny.ucsf.edu/14kshU @ucsfsurgery.bsky.social

Congrats to Kyle Cromer, PhD, on receiving an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award! Dr. Cromer is working on better treatments for sickle cell disease by trying to help the bone marrow produce more healthy red blood cells. 🧬 #UCSFProud www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...

A new imaging technique and single-cell sequencing reveal a deeper understanding of ovarian aging. @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social & @czbiohub.bsky.social study could be key to strategies for extended fertility and healthier aging. www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...

For #StemCellAwarenessDay, a look at a human neuron grown from stem cells, captured by Dr. Yonatan Perez, a Kriegstein Lab postdoc alum. This work could inform therapies for neurological disorders and brain regeneration.

Congratulations to our Broad Center members (Bruce Conklin, Tippi MacKenzie, Jingjing Li, Benoit Bruneau, and Holger Willenbring) and colleagues on their newly awarded CIRM Discovery (DISC0) grants!

From cloudy mornings to golden sunsets—the UCSF Broad Stem Cell Center always has a view worth sharing. 🌿☀️ Thanks to Lael and Cassie from the IRM Admin Team for these shots! #UCSF #Dolby #KarlTheFog #OfficeViews #CampusViews #GoldenHour

Congratulations, Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD! 🧬🧠✨ #UCSFProud

The University of California provides transformative educational opportunities, life-saving health care and research that moves our state forward and powers our economy. Stand with UC for the future of California: bit.ly/46LvcMo youtu.be/OpvhTJtxF5o?...

New from the Cromer Lab detailing methods for achieving high-efficiency CRISPR-based genome editing in primary hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Discover more @cp-starprotocols.bsky.social | star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4394

So proud of Kaylee who won a #GordonConference Travel Award! 🥇 🤩 Congrats to @brisapalikuqilab.bsky.social for a fantastic #GRS and Profs Karina Yaniv and Anne Eichmann for an outstanding #Angiogenesis conference @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social @ucsfstemcell.bsky.social