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Hi Gates Center,
I wanted to give you a quick life update as my GSIP experience has truly been so impactful in shaping my career path and aspirations.
I couldn’t have gotten my current job without the skills I gained through GSIP and the PI whom I worked with has been an outstanding mentor, supporting me as I applied to jobs and now to school. I was undecided throughout college if I wanted to pursue a career in research, medicine, both, or perhaps neither, but experiencing the interdisciplinary, collaborative community at Anschutz, hearing the faculty lectures, and seeing the amazing potential of translational research at an academic medical center definitely helped shape my aspirations.
Regardless, I wanted to say how grateful I was to spend Summer 2016 in Colorado--writing medical school applications has caused me to reflect on my sources of inspiration and motivation and GSIP was a constant theme.
Thanks again to you and everyone who makes the program possible!
Best,
Emma Office, GSIP Class of 2016
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CELL BIOLOGY, STEM CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT (CSD)
In 2018, the Gates Center continued its support of the Grad- uate Program in Cell Biology, Stem Cells and Development (CSD) directed by Bruce Appel, Ph.D., Gates Center member and Diane G. Wallach Chair in Pediatric Stem Cell Biology. This combined program is based on the premise that although medical use of stem cells holds great promise for treatment of human diseases and birth defects, to advance the use of stem cells in the clinic scientists must continue to pursue funda- mental discoveries as to how cells function and how cells in embryos form the different tissues of the body.
As explained by Dr. Appel, “CSD students and faculty have common interests in understanding the molecular and cellu- lar mechanisms that underlie development, disease, stem cell biology and regeneration—a common curiosity that promotes extensive interaction among labs and creates a fantastic in- tellectual environment.” The Gates Center is proud to be as- sociated with this fine program, which helps attract and train talented candidates in the regenerative medicine field.
During the year, Gates Center support helped 11 students travel to the following scientific conferences: Keystone Sym- posium on Endoderm Development and Disease, Taos, NM;
Association of University Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL; Genetics Society of America – 2018 Ciliate Mo- lecular Biology Meeting, Washington, D.C.; Gordon Research Conference on Cell Polarity Signaling, West Dover, VT; Gordon Research Conference for Visual System Development, Il Cioc- co, Italy; Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference, Madison, WI; International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 2018, Melbourne Australia; GRC Neural De- velopment: Generating Diverse Cells and Networks in the Ner- vous System, Newport, RI; Society of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology, La Jolla, CA and the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Additionally, Gates Center funding enabled a CSD student representative to attend a STEM undergraduate conference; education outreach activities organized by CSD students; a recruitment trip to undergraduate campuses by CSD Associ- ate Director Jeff Moore; two graduate courses run by CSD faculty; the annual Bootcamp training for summer interns run by CSD students; and, one outside seminar speaker.
We look forward to continuing to help support, grow and pro- mote this superb program.
I am happy to hear that George Lampe whom I mentored from the GSIP class of 2016 landed a great opportunity at Memorial Sloan Kettering, a world-class cancer center. I consider this a really positive and very tangible outcome of the GSIP experience. Please share with the directors and others.
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