Journal Club: Wound Healing/Ions
Presentation: “Adding In-salt to Injury: Tissue Damage Detection by Osmotic Surveillance” Presenter: Carlos Rojo <(second-year BMS student) Paper: Enyedi B...
Life of a Grad Student: Overview
“How many graduate students are here — a few hundred?” a Dental student recently asked me. You may be surprised...
Journal Club: Development/Regeneration
Presentation: "How to Get A-Head in Life: Rescuing Head Regrowth in Regeneration-limited Planarians" Presenter: Christina Hueschen, second-year BMS student Paper...
Poetry at Parnassus: an Interview with Dr. David Watts
“Don’t shut down the humanistic side. It’ll make you unbalanced,” intoned Dr. David Watts, a gastroenterologist and UCSF clinical professor...
Life of a Grad Student: Second Year
UCSF has a welcoming environment, and they encourage students to leave our mark on the campus, academically and socially. I’ve...
GSA Advocates for Students
During the upcoming academic year, the Graduate Student Association (GSA) will work toward greater inter-professional cooperation and continue its efforts...
Journal Club: Cell Death
Why do we need (cell) death? Death is one of the most critical lessons we must learn in biology and...
Higher UC SHIP Premiums = More Benefits
Student health insurance premiums will increase $565, or 20.4 percent, next year for registered students at UCSF, one of the...
Sesame: A Family Tradition
For the first time last month, I entered one of the small Chinese groceries dotting Clement Street, in search of...