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June 9th, 2025: Hello summer and welcome to our summer intern, Ciara Cabrera! Visit the People page to learn more about Ciara!
June 9th, 2025: Welcome to Kyota Ishibashi! Kyota is an Orthopaedic Surgeon who joins our lab from Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine. Visit the People page to learn more about him!
June 9th, 2025: As we say good luck to one student, we say welcome to another! Welcome back to the lab, Naomi Cinque! Naomi initially rotated in our lab earlier this year and has committed to joining for her thesis. So excited to have you officially in the lab!
May 30th, 2025: Congratulations to Kristen Chan on defending her Master's thesis and officially graduating from her program! We're so sad to see you go, but wish you nothing but success! Beautiful weather on her last day must be good luck, right?
May 27th, 2025: Beth presenting at the 5th Annual PROPEL Symposium during the scholar talks session. Way to go, Beth!!
May 15th, 2025: Congratulations to Jess Wagner for passing her qualifying exam!! First one of the lab. Here is just after with her committee. (from left to right, top to bottom: Richard Souza, Jess Wagner, Kelsey Collins, Kristine Godziuk, Diana Alba, Peggy Cawthon)
April 30th, 2025: Congratulations to Reyna for getting into dental school! This was her last day in the lab before she's off to her next chapter. Good luck and we'll miss you!!
April 25th, 2025: Congratulations to Kristen Chan for successfully defending her Master's thesis today! She is the first student to defend a thesis in our lab, which we celebrated with a lab potluck. Way to go, Kristen!
April 24th, 2025: Dr. Collins most recently published work on leptin and complement factor D in osteoarthritis! Read the full research article at Science Advances.
April 14th, 2025: The lab attended the Bay Area Research Institute (BARI) Annual Meeting at the DeYoung Museum. Incredible to learn about research hot off the press in such an iconic museum!
March 27th, 2025: Jess Wagner visited collaborators at the Kapoor Lab at the University of Toronto to learn about complex tissue analysis including metabolomics and transcriptomics. What an amazing experience!
March 23rd, 2025: Congratulations to Hope for winning a podium talk award at the Gordon Research Symposium (GRS) in Pomona, CA! In winning this award, she secured a spot to present during the larger Gordon Research Conference, and she was elected 2027 GRS Chair for the next meeting in Tuscany, Italy. Well-deserved, Hope!
March 20th, 2025: UCSF hosted researchers from Stanford for an interdisciplinary mini-symposium on current research in biomechanics, biology, and computational analysis of musculoskeletal diseases.
March 19th, 2025: Congratulations Kristen on winning Outstanding Poster (Pre-Doctoral Student) at the CCMBM Annual Retreat at Mission Bay!
March 19th, 2025: Congratulations Beth on winning Outstanding Poster (Junior Specialist) at the CCMBM Annual Retreat at Mission Bay! We've got some real outstanding poster presenters in this lab!!
March 4th, 2025: Dr. Zsuzsa Janei-Lanzl visited us from the Dr. Rolf M. Schweite Research Unit for Osteoarthritis, University Hospital Frankfurt to share her research on autonomic nervous system in osteoarthritis, cartilage regeneration, and patient phenotyping.
February 24th, 2025: The Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IRM) held their annual retreat at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio. (Pictured from left to right: David, Kristen, Priscilla, Tiffany, Jess, Hope)
February 10th, 2025: The Collins Lab and friends at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix, AZ during ORS. A great time to connect with friends near and far!
February 10th, 2025: Tiffany presented her work on structural damage and pain in knee OA of mice during the poster session at ORS. Great work, Tiffany!
February 8th, 2025: Hope presented her work in a talk during the ORS RIG session, and Beth presented a poster on her recent work during the poster session. Fabulous job to both!
Dercember 6th, 2024: The lab getting festive at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research Holiday Party. Happy Holidays!
October 19th, 2024: Tiffany presented at the UCSF Developmental Stem Cell Biology (DSCB) Retreat at Asilomar. Awesome job, Tiffany!
October 17th, 2024: Dr. Collins gave a presentation at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Bioengineering retreat at Asilomar. So cool to be a part of so many different disciplines across Universities!
September 17th, 2024: We had our annual lab retreat at The Story of Ramen in the Mission District where we got to learn how to make ramen and, of course, enjoy it after!
September 1st, 2024: Welcome to the lab, David! David joins us as a postdoc all the way from Spain. Read more about him on the People page.
August 20th, 2024: Welcome to the lab, Hope! Hope joins us as a postdoc after recently completing her PhD in Montana. Read more about her on the People Page!