News

March 7, 2023: 

Congratulations to Bridget Fortin on passing her advancement exam! She is now an official PhD Candidate! 

February 1, 2023: 

Check out our lab’s new publication in F1000 Research! 

January 9, 2023:

We are pleased to welcome Shannon Pfeiffer and Kalei Guillermo as rotating graduate students! We are pleased to welcome Jillian Tayag as a new undergraduate student! 

October 4, 2022:

Check out our lab’s new publication in Frontiers in Physiology!

September 20, 2022:

Congratulations to first authors Amandine Verlande and Sung Kook Chun on their paper acceptance in Frontiers in Physiology!

August 10, 2022:

Check out our lab’s recent publication in Science Advances! 

August 8, 2022:

We are pleased to welcome Natalie Larson as an Associate Specialist! Welcome Natalie!

June 27, 2022: 

We are pleased to welcome Jordan Wimberly through the 2022 UCI Cancer Research Institute Science Youth Fellowship Program! Welcome Jordan and we look forward to showing you our exciting research! 

June 13, 2022: 

Congratulations to first authors Sungkook Chun, Rachel Fellows, and Bridget Fortin, everyone in the Masri lab, and the entire team on our paper acceptance! 

June 1, 2022:

We are pleased to welcome Alisa Mahieu as an official graduate student! Welcome Alisa and we are excited to continue working with you! 

May 20, 2022: 

Selma is the recipient of the 2022 Junior Faculty Research Award through the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR)!! Congratulations, Selma!!

March 28, 2022: 

We are pleased to welcome Alisa Mahieu as a rotating graduate student. Welcome Alisa! 

March 17, 2022:

Congratulations to Selma Masri on being selected as the 2022 Johnson and Johnson Women in Stem Scholar in the Science Category! Thank you to J&J for this recognition and their support! 

March 14, 2022:

Congratulations to the Pannunzio and Masri labs on our 2022 Anti-Cancer Challenge grant. A big thank you to the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center for their continued support! 

January 17, 2022: 

We are pleased to welcome Fareeha Ameen and Willie Yeh as undergraduate students! Welcome to the lab! 

January 7, 2022:

Congratulations to Selma Masri on her Outstanding Early-Career Faculty Research Award from UCI School of Medicine! 

January 6, 2022: 

Congratulations to the Masri and Waterman labs on our newly awarded multi-PI R01, which also includes the Pannunzio, Seldin and Buisson labs! Incredible team effort and we look forward to this collaborative project. Thank you NIH/NCI for the funding support!

November 24, 2021: 

Congratulations to Bridget Fortin on her nomination for a pre-doctoral slot on the T32 for Interdisciplinary Cancer Research! 

October 26, 2021:

Congratulations to Amandine Verlande on her poster presentation at the 2021 Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Mechanisms of Metabolic Signaling! 

October 22, 2021:

Congratulations to Bridget Fortin on her poster presentation and winning best poster at the 2021 School of Medicine Grad Day! 

September 20, 2021:

Welcome back to campus to our Undergraduate students! Here’s to a great quarter!

July 12, 2021:

We are pleased to welcome Amy Song to the lab as a Lab Assistant II. Amy welcome to the lab! We are excited to work with you. 

June 25, 2021:

Congratulations to Amandine Verlande, Sung Kook Chun and the rest of the Masri Lab for the publication of our paper. Check out the press release by the School of Medicine! 

June 22, 2021:

Congratulations to Bridget Fortin for passing her preliminary exam. We could not be more proud!

June 12, 2021:

Keely Perry has graduated from UCI! We are so excited for you Keely and look forward to hearing what the future has in store. Thanks for all your help!

May 13, 2021:

Congratulations to Amandine Verlande, Sung Kook Chun and the entire Masri Lab for our paper acceptance!! More info coming soon, stay tuned!!

March 3, 2021:

We are pleased to welcome Bridget Fortin as an official member of the Masri Lab. Bridget we are so excited to continue working with you!

March 1, 2021:

We are pleased to welcome Rachel Fellows as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Rachel! 

January 4, 2021:

We are pleased to welcome Bridget Fortin and Jacob Dohl to the Masri Lab as rotating graduate students. Bridget and Jacob, we are excited to work with you. We are also pleased to welcome Lauren Evans as an undergraduate student. Welcome Lauren.

January 21, 2020:

Congrats to the Masri and Dai labs on our new Multi-PI P30 Skin Seed grant through NIAMS!

December 16, 2019:

We are thrilled to announce the Giulia Giammo has been appointed to the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics T32 Training Grant. Congrats, Giulia! 

November 26, 2019:

The Masri lab has been awarded an R01 grant! Thank you NIH/NCI for funding our work!!

November 25, 2019:

Giulia Giammo has officially joined the Masri lab as a graduate student. Happy to have you on board, Giulia!

October 9, 2019:

We are pleased to welcome Melissa Loh to the lab as a UCI undergraduate student. Welcome Melissa!

September 3, 2019:

We are happy to welcome Sungkook Chun to the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Sungkook! 

August 12, 2019:

We are happy to welcome Giulia Giammo to the lab as a rotating graduate student. Welcome Giulia!

June 25, 2019:

We are happy to welcome Keely Perry to our lab as a UCI undergraduate student. Welcome Keely!

June 19, 2019:

We are thrilled to welcome a Youth Summer Fellowship student to the lab, through the Cancer Research Institute (CRI). Clara Yi  we are happy to have you!

June 16, 2019:

Our undergraduate student Alyssa Perry graduated from UCI, we are thrilled for you Alyssa and look forward to hearing what the future has in store for you. Thanks for all your help!

May 31, 2019:

Check out the V Foundation blog post on Selma Masri. 

May 30, 2019:

Check out Amandine and Selma’s latest review in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism on Circadian Clocks and Cancer. See more on the publications page. 

December 6, 2018:

 

November 1, 2018: 

Selma is named a V Foundation Scholar!

September 10, 2018:

We are pleased to welcome a new rotating graduate student to the lab. Welcome Alan Ly!

September 4, 2018:

We are pleased to welcome a new visiting scholar to the lab. Welcome Zhongyuan Wang! Zhongyuan is also a China Scholarship Council (CSC) Fellow.

September 1, 2018:

The Masri lab is awarded a Conquer Cancer Now Award from the Concern Foundation!

July 2, 2018:

Amandine receives the Hitachi Nomura Postdoctoral Fellowship!

July 1, 2018:

We are pleased to welcome two new postdoctoral fellows to the lab. Welcome Amandine Verlande and Lu Tian!

December 1, 2017:

Selma is awarded a K22 Career Development Award from NIH/NCI