Lab News
2023
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The Towers Lab is 2
![Thank you V Foundation for funding our work!](https://towers.salk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2023/09/The-V-Foundation.jpg)
Thank you V Foundation for funding our work!
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Congratulations to Celina and Angelica for graduating from UCSD – so glad they are both staying in the lab full time for their gap year.
![Anvita Passed her Senate Exam](https://towers.salk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2023/09/Anvita.jpg)
Congratulations to Anvita for passing her Senate Exam and advancing to Candidacy!
![Trivia Night](https://towers.salk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2023/09/TriviaNight.jpg)
Trivia Night! In celebration of Sienna getting into a PhD program at City of Hope – Excited for her next chapter. Our first Towers Lab Alumni.
2022
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Dr. Towers has been awarded the Black in Cancer Young Investigator Award.
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Ended our brainstorming week with a lab retreat to Universal Studios.
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We celebrated all of our September birthdays by escaping a mad scientist!
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The Towers lab has been awarded the CZI Diversity Leadership Award. Learn more »
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We had a fantastic brainstorming week with no science allowed, just reading, writing and thinking about our projects (which is of course the real science).
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Excited to have Louis join the group as a new Postdoc from UPenn.
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Congrats to Suzanne for being awarded the Salk Excellerators Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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The Towers Lab is 1 year old! Fun celebration at the beach!
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The whole lab enjoying the Gordon Conference on Autophagy in Ventura Beach.
2021
October 31, 2021
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Happy Halloween from the Towers Lab: We love our mitochondria and mitochondria derived vesicles!
October 27, 2021
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Congrats to Payel and Suzanne for both being awarded pilot grants from Salk Women In Science!
October 4, 2021
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Anvita officially joins the lab as a prospective PhD student from Bioengineering! Welcome!
September 17, 2021
Celina is our first undergraduate from UCSD to join the group!
September 16, 2021
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Happy hour for September Birthdays!
September 7, 2021
Welcome to the lab Suzanne (Postdoc)!
September 1, 2021
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Congrats to Payel for getting the Pioneer Postdoctoral Fellowship!
August 31, 2021
Dr. Towers named one of San Diego Business Journal Women of Influence. Read more »
August 23, 2021
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Welcome to the lab Sienna (Research Technician)!
August 20, 2021
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Renovations are complete and the lab is fully up and running! Yay!
August 15, 2021
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First official lab lunch!
July 6, 2021
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Welcome to the lab Payel (Postdoc)!
July 1, 2021
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The Towers Lab is open for business (not really science yet though)!