August 2020 – Our paper “Mechanisms underlying genomeinstability mediated by formation of foldback inversions in Saccharomycescerevisiae” was just published in Elife. Congratulations to Bin-zhong Li. 

August 2020 – Our commentary “MutS sliding clamps on anuncertain track to DNA mismatch repair” was just published in PNAS. 

June 2020 – Congratulations to Katarina Nguyen! Kat has beenaccepted to the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. 

June 2020 – Congratulations to Kendell Torres! Kendellgraduated from UCSD and has decided to join our lab full-time. 

June 2020 – Our paper “FEN1 endonuclease as a therapeutictarget for human cancers with defects in homologous recombination” was justpublished in PNAS. Congratulations to all involved, but particularly co-firstauthors Elaine and Yuki.
See press releases at Ludwig https://www.ludwigcancerresearch.org/news-releases/ludwig-san-diego-study-identifies-deadly-genetic-synergy-in-cancer-cells-and-shows-it-might-be-exploited-for-therapy/
and at UCSD
https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2020-07-27-new-way-to-target-cancers-using-synthetic-lethality.aspx. 
May 2020 – Congratulations to Dr. Matthew DuPrie! Matt, agraduate student in UCSD’s Biomedical Sciences Program, successfully defendedhis thesis “Recruitment and Function of Mlh1-Pms1 in DNA Mismatch Repair”. 

January 2020 – Congratulations to Dr. Elaine Guo! Elaine, agraduate student in UCSD’s Biomedical Sciences Program, successfully defendedher thesis “Hypersensitivity of BRCA-Deficient Cancer Cells to FEN1Inhibition”.