News – Carvajal-Carmona Lab

May 2021 – Dr. Nicole Coggins and Professor Luis Car v ajal-Carmona were awarded the 2021 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research Recipients.
June 2020 – Dr. Nicole Coggins is selected as a Minority Scholar in Cancer Research to present her work at the AACR Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually this year. More information can be found here.
Spring 2020 – Alma Poceros-Coba is Ph.D. student at Integrative Genetics and Genomics program. She joined our Lab on Spring quarter 2020. Alma awarded a UC Mexus CONACYT doctoral fellowship to conduct her studies at UC Davis.
May 2019 – Dr. Carvajal organizes a mini-symposium addressing health equity among Latinas. More information can be found here.
March 2019 – Paper published with the Alzheimer’s Disease Center makes it on the Sacramento Bee. More information can be found here.
August 2018 – Luis is interviewed for Synthesis, a UC Davis Cancer Center Publication. More information can be found here.
August 2018 – Sienna is interviewed for Synthesis, a UC Davis Cancer Center Publication. More information can be found here.
June 2018 – Luis is appointed as the Co-Chair of the Minority Scholar Awards Committee at the AACR.
April 2018 – Luis is elected to serve at the AACR Minorities in Cancer Research Council (MICR). He will serve at this Council for three years. More information can be found here.
April 2018 – Luis is invited to be an expert witness for a whole geome sequencing bill at the California State Capitol. The initiative led by the bi-partisan rare disease caucus was included in the State budget for FY 18-19 and will provide funding for whole genome sequencing in Medi-Cal patients with rare disease. More information can be found here.
January 2018 – Luis’s career is highlighted at the NCI Center for Cancer Health Disparities. For more information, please click here.
September 2017 – Luis visits our collaborators at Universidad del Tomil. click here.
June 2017 – Luis attends SACNAS and acts as a Mentor Judge in the poster competition.
June 2017 – Luis becomes a Permanent Member of the Cancer, Hearth and Sleep Epidemiology A Study Section (CHSA). He will serve a CHSA between 2018-2021. click here.
April 2017 – Luis is part of the Scientific Program Committee of the AACR annual meeting
December 2016 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab is proud to announce that Mabel Bohorquez received her Ph.D. in Colombia, earning the Laureate Thesis Award. Mabel is Luis’s third Ph.D. student. Congrats Mabel!
December 2016 – New Publication: Germline mutations in PALB2, BRCA1, and RAD51C, which regulate DNA recombination repair, in patients with gastric cancer.
November 2016 – Luis has been invited to present at the Latin American Genetics Society meeting in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
November 2016 – Anna Marie Tuazon has left our lab to begin her career at Gilead Sciences. We will miss you, Anna Marie!
October 2016 – Luis has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations Luis!
October 2016 – New Publication: Clinical manifestations of colorectal cancer patients from a large multicenter study in Colombia.
September 2016 – Luis has been invited to present at the annual UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center meeting.
September 2016 – Nicole has received the Barbara Horwitz & John Horowitz Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Award. Congrats Nicole! For more information, please click here.
September 2016 – Luis was invited to interview with ESPN in Spanish, where he discussed our V Foundation study on Hispanic breast cancer genetics.
August 2016 – Luis has been invited to present at Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota.
August 2016 – New Publication: Clinical features of Hispanic thyroid cancer cases and the role of known genetic variants on disease risk.
August 2016 – Luis has been invited to present at the Hormel Institute, at the University of Minnesota.
July 2016 – Anna Marie Tuazon completed an internship at BioMarin, and received her Ph.D. with a Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology. Congrats Dr. Tuazon!
July 2016 – Luis has been invited to present at the 5th Biennial National Latino Cancer Summit.
June 2016 – Cathy Wang has left our lab to pursue her M.Sc. in Biostatistics at Harvard University. Good luck, Cathy!
June 2016 – Luis became a member of the Bio-Rad Genomics Advisory Board.
June 2016 – Luis has been invited to present at the Alzheimer�s Researchers Symposium, at UC Davis.
June 2016 – Elisha Garcia has left our lab to conduct research with Kaiser Permanente, while pursuing a career in public health. We will miss you, Elisha!
June 2016 – New Publication: The hunting of the snark: whither genome-wide association studies for colorectal cancer?
June 2016 – Luis has been invited to present at the University of Washington, for the Department of Medical Genetics Seminar Series.
May 2016 – Luis has been invited to present at the UCLA Human Genetics Seminar.
May 2016 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab has received funding from an NIH R21 grant to study gastric cancer genomics.
May 2016 – New Publication: RE: HABP2 G534E mutation in familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer.
April 2016 – Luis has been invited to present at the 2016 AACR annual meeting, where he will give a Recent Advances Session on germline cancer susceptibility studies in diverse populations.
March 2016 – Luis became a member of the 2017 AACR Annual Meeting, Scientific Program Committee.
February 2016 – New Publication: The HABP2 G534E polymorphism does not increase nonmedullary thyroid cancer risk in Hispanics.
January 2016 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab has welcomed a new bioinformatics post-doc, Ted Toal. To learn more about Ted, click here.
January 2016 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab and collaborators have been highlighted by Endocrine Related Cancer for research in thyroid cancer! For more information, please visit their website.
January 2016 – New Publication: The HABP2 G534E variant is an unlikely cause of familial non-medullary thyroid cancer
January 2016 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona and his lab have been featured in the January issue of CancerBEAT!
December 2015 – Jacob Stultz has graduated with his B.Sc. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior. Congrats Jake!
November 2015 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona has been invited to give a presentation on opportunities in genetics and genomics for Hispanics at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
November 2015 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona has been invited to give a talk on cancer genomics in Hispanics from Latin America at the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social in Mexico City.
October 2015 – New Publication: The 8q24 rs6983267G variant is associated with increased thyroid cancer risk
October 2015 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona has presented an update on gastric cancer genomics at the Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile, and cancer genetics in Latinos at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile.
May 2015 – John Williamson received an award for his poster presentation on single-cell exome sequencing at the IGG Colloquium!
April 2015 – Anna Marie Tuazon has been granted the MEG Scholar-in-Training Award (SITA) at this years American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting! For more information, please click here.
March 2015 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona has been invited to present information on a genome-wide association study of colorectal adenoma at the University of Vienna School of Medicine.
February 2015 – The Carvajal-Carmona Lab and collaborators have been featured in CancerBEAT this month! To read the eNewsletter, visit here.
December 2014 – New Publication: Fine-mapping of the HNF1B multicancer locus identifies candidate variants that mediate endometrial cancer risk
December 2014 – New Publication: Candidate locus analysis of the TERT-CLPTM1L cancer risk region on chromosome 5p15 identifies multiple independent variants associated with endometrial cancer risk
December 2014 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona has been invited to speak at the Helicobacter Pylori Symposium in Costa Rica. For more information, please visit this website.
October 2014 – New Publication: Genome-wide association study of breast cancer in Latinas identifies novel protective variants on 6q25
October 2014 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab and collaborators have proudly announced that our research has been featured in Time Magazine, NY Times, and the Wall Street Journal
September 2014 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona has been named a Latino Aging Research Center Scholar. For more information, click here.
August 2014 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona has been named a K12 Paul Calabresi Clinical Oncology Scholar!
July 2014 – The research group has received a grant from No Stomach for Cancer. More information on the grant can be found here.
June 2014 – Anna Marie Tuazon has been granted the NIH T32 in Biomolecular Technology fellowship! For more information, please click here. Congrats Anna Marie!
June 2014 – A graduate student of the Carvajal-Carmona lab has been featured in CancerBEAT. For more information, please click here.
May 2014 – Nicole Coggins has been granted the NIH T32 Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology fellowship! For more information, please click here. Congrats Nicole!
April 2014 – The Carvajal-Carmona group has presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2014 in San Diego
January 2014 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab and collaborators have happily hosted Dr. Luis Diaz, from John Hopkins University School of Medicine! He gave a seminar on “Novel Clinical Applications of Cancer Genomics,” on January 16th at the UCDMC Comprehensive Cancer Center Auditorium.
December 2013 – The Carvajal-Carmona Research group has been featured on the December issue of the CancerBEAT eNewsletter! Read the article here.
November 2013 – New Publication: Germline Variants and Advanced Colorectal Adenomas: Adenoma Prevention with Celecoxib Trial Genome-wide Association Study.
November 2013 – The UCDMC Comprehensive Cancer Center Synthesis Magazine has published an article about the studies our research group has done in population isolates. For the full article, click here.
November 2013 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab has been featured in UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Insider!. For the full article, click here.
November 2013 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona has been named a V Foundation Scholar! For more information, please click here.
September 2013 – Dr. Luis Carvajal-Carmona has given a talk at the 2nd International Conference on Genomics in the Americas on September 12th.For more information, please click here.
August 2013 – The lab has been awarded a BGI@UCDavis grant for an exome sequencing study! For more information, please click here.
July 2013 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab has welcomed our first bioinformatic post-doc, Paul Lott. To learn more about Paul, click here.
June 2013 – Anna Marie Tuazon has become a Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Integrating Medicine into Basic Science scholar! For more information, please click here.
June 2013 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab was pleased to have welcomed the new Assistant Specialist, Natalia Belter. To learn more about Natalia, click here.
May 2013 – Anna Marie Tuazon has been invited to present at the 7th Annual Spotlight on Junior Investigators Cancer Research Mini-Symposium. For more information, please click here.
May 2013 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab was pleased to have had a post-bacc pre-medical student, Diego Tapias, shadow us at our lab.
April 2013 – The Carvajal-Carmona lab was pleased to welcome a visiting graduate scholar, Rodrigo Prieto Sanchez, from the University of Tolima, Colombia.
March 2013 – Luis has become a member of the Biochemistry, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology graduate group. For more information, please click here.
March 2013 – Luis has become a member of the Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology program. For more information about the program, please click here.
February 2013 – Luis has become a member of the NIH T32 Molecular and Cellular Biology training grant. For more information about the training grant, please click here.
February 2013 – New Publication: Germline mutations affecting the proofreading domains of POLE and POLD1 predispose to colorectal adenomas and carcinomas.
January 2013 – The lab has officially welcomed our first graduate student, Anna Marie Tuazon, to Carvajal-Carmona lab. To learn more about Anna Marie, click here.
January 2013 – The lab has welcomed our first postdoc, Ruta Sahasrabudhe. To learn more about Ruta, click here.
January 2013 – New Publication: A colorectal cancer genome-wide association study in a Spanish cohort identifies two variants associated with colorectal cancer risk at 1p33 and 8p12.
January 2013 – New Publication: Much of the genetic risk of colorectal cancer is likely to be mediated through susceptibility to adenomas.