
PhD student at UCSD in Dr. Jazz Dickinson’s lab 🌱2023 HHMI Gilliam Fellow 🌿 interested in metabolite patterning in maize roots🍃@sacnas_UCSD
Joined April 2022
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
NDiSTEM introduction and fun game of family feud Monday, Feb 10!! Join us if you are interested in attending a scientific conference and want to spend time with other SACNISTAS!! (plus there will be empanadas!)
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Join us next Monday as we continue our Cafecito Chat series with Dr. Andrew Mendiola from @UCSDPharm
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Join us tomorrow 3-5pm for an event with @EliLillyandCo @LillyCareers Learn about their internship programs and meet with recruiters and scientists! Food and networking opportunities provided!
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Welcome back Sacnistas! Join us next Wednesday, October 9th 4:30-6pm for our first general body meeting!
We will introduce the new board (and recruit for open board positions!), eat some good food and prep resumes for our Eli Lilly Recruitment event happening next Friday!🧬
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New in @newphyt: Plants widen pores on their leaves as a heat response, but a full understanding of this function has been lacking. @UCSandiego biologists have now unlocked these details and ID'd two ways plants handle rising temperatures. #climatechange
go.ucsd.edu/3ZOiRn5
another amazing #GilliamFellows meeting has come and gone! It was so great reconnecting with my cohort and welcoming the new one! love this community of scientists 🌱✨ @HHMINEWS
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Thanks #DivSch24 for a weekend of professional development and the opportunity to connect with other SACNAS chapters! @SacnasUCI @sacnas_ucla @sacnasusc @UH_SACNAS
Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
Incredible!!!! I am blessed. A big thank you to my PI for her support as I embark on this journey to contribute immensely in the fight against Lassa virus.
lji.org/blog/onyeka-chukwudo…
got to present my research at #ICAR2024 and see my lab present too! was super fun to see my PI (and lab mates!) talk about the work our lab is doing! especially proud of my undergrad mentee who presented a poster! 🌱
great talk by @plant_gab today at #ICAR2024!! very proud lab mate moment 🌿
gave my first ever conference talk at @ASPB 2024! If I had to be a stressed anxious girly somewhere, Hawai’i was a pretty good place to do it 🌈 met so many amazing people and made some great connections! 🌱
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Midterms got you stressed? SACNAS has got you covered . Come join us for a fun, silly paint night with fellow members ! No art skills necessary! Happening Thursday May 30th, 4pm in the green table room (2nd floor PC).
Happening tomorrow!! Come support @sacnas_UCSD there will be a great talk with some good food and community!
Andrea Sama and Jazz Dickinson have been awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship, paving the way for a May 10 keynote address on issues of health equity in the Latinx community.
Details: go.ucsd.edu/3QASUSK
Event registration: bit.ly/3QBzT2p
so excited for our final fireside chat! very grateful to @HHMINEWS and my PI for the support that made it possible! @ucsdbiosciences
Having Dr. Alcántara as our closing speaker May 10th wouldn’t be possible without our amazing treasurer @andreamsama and support from HHMI Gilliam! Read more about from @UCSanDiego here ⬇️
biology.ucsd.edu/about/news/…
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We super excited to have Dr. Carmela Alcántara from @Columbia as our final fireside chat speaker this year!
Hear about her incredible journey and research with Latinx communities. May 10th at 11am in the Kavli Auditorium, with lunch to follow! @UCSDBioSciGrad @AlcantaraPhD
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Welcome back Tritons! Start off the quarter with our next fireside chat from Dr. Nabora Reyes de Barboza on Monday 4/8. Come hear more about her exciting journey and learn more about her incoming lab
@reyes_lab here at @ucsdbiosciences. 🧬
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Want to hear a research talk in Spanish? Come to CaSAS first Seminar talk next Thursday 3/21! @CaSAS_UCSD






























