Caption: Dr. Bonnie Bassler. Photo Credit: Alena Soboleva   Hello JCC Fellows, Scientific Board Members, and Friends, I am delighted to be the new Chair of the Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA). I look forward […]

The JCC is pleased to welcome four new members of the Board of Scientific Advisors this year, in addition to our new Chair, Bonnie Bassler. Dr. Sue Biggins was the first to isolate, reconstitute, and […]

The JCC is pleased to share recent research by current and former JCC Fellows. JCC Fellow Feng Chen, in Holger Willenbring’s lab at UCSF, contributed to a study showing that when disease or injury causes […]

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a T lymphocyte. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health T cell therapies have shown remarkable promise for treating cancer. Specially engineered T cells can target […]

Caption: This is an image of Bengalese finches. Credit: Brainard lab / UCSF In nature, male Bengalese finches learn their mating songs from their fathers. But how much of that learning is predetermined by genetics? […]