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title="Share by Email" class="share-email"><span class="fa fa-envelope-o" aria-hidden></span><span class="text-indent">Email</span></a><span class="st_sharethis_custom"><span class="fa fa-share-alt" aria-hidden title="More Share options"></span><span class="text-indent">Share</span></span></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><figure class="image"><img alt="Discovery Fellows symposium speakers pose for a photo with donor Roger Page and Dean Nicquet Blake" height="640" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra286/f/wysiwyg/DF-symposium24-speakers-page-blake-formatted.jpg" width="960" /> <figcaption>Donor Roger Page (third from left) and Graduate Dean Nicquet Blake (right) share a moment with the 5th-year fellows who gave this year’s symposium talks: Cuyler Luck, Maggie Colton Cove, Angeline Chemel, Jennifer Langen, and Camille Moore. Photo by Sonya Yruel.</figcaption> </figure> <p>Dozens of students, faculty members, alumni, donors, staff, family, and friends gathered at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on the evening of Oct. 30 for the 2024 Discovery Fellows’ Michael Page, PhD Research Symposium. Launched in 2016, each year this event is a favorite opportunity to celebrate basic science graduate education with short research talks and poster presentations by PhD candidates, and to express appreciation to the many generous donors who have made the Discovery Fellows Program possible.</p> <p>Sir Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman established the <a href="/admission/financial-support/fellowships/discovery-fellows-program">Discovery Fellows Program</a> in 2013 with an initial landmark gift of $30 million to ensure the future of PhD education programs in the basic sciences. They have since been joined by more than 1,200 donors in order to build an endowment that is currently more than $150 million – the largest endowed program for PhD students in the history of the 10-campus University of California.</p> <p>The Discovery Fellows endowment provides financial support for all PhD students in the basic sciences, but each year, <a href="/admission/financial-support/fellowships/discovery-fellows-program/current-discovery-fellows">79 PhD candidates are designated as Discovery Fellows</a>, charged with using their demonstrated leadership potential, excellence in research, community-mindedness, and communications skills to serve as ambassadors for the initiative and for basic science education.</p> <p>The annual symposium is a key opportunity for fellows to perform this role and to acknowledge the donors who’ve made it possible. The symposium is named in memory of Michael Page, PhD, who worked as a postdoc in the Craik Lab until his untimely death at 36, and who embodied the spirit of scientific inquiry that is celebrated by the Discovery Fellows program. His father, Roger Page, created an endowed Discovery Fellows Leadership fund in his son’s honor, which garnered support from more than 60 additional donors.</p> <p>Organized by University Development and Alumni Relations with help from the Graduate Division Dean’s Office, the event was hosted by Nicquet Blake, PhD, dean of the Graduate Division and vice provost of Student Academic Affairs, and included remarks from Chancellor Sam Hawgood and Roger Page, who reflected on his son Michael’s legacy and how UCSF keeps alive his spirit of scientific exploration through the research symposium and the Discovery Fellows program.</p> <p>Five 5th-year Discovery Fellows were chosen to share their dissertation research in short, accessible talks, after which guests enjoyed a reception and poster session featuring scientific posters from 4th-year fellows. Also attending was <a href="https://graduate.ucsf.edu/admission/financial-support/fellowships/discovery-fellows-program/current-discovery-fellows#:~:text=Cohort%2012%20(September%202024)">the newest cohort of fellows</a>, who were appointed in September.</p> <h2>Symposium Speakers</h2> <p><strong>This year’s speakers were (in order of appearance):</strong></p> <p><strong>Maggie Colton Cove</strong><br /> PhD candidate in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics<br /> <a href="https://vimeo.com/1026270878/c684959c3a?ts=1223056&share=copy" target="_blank"><em>Synthetic Receptors Arm the Immune System Against Pediatric Brain Tumors</em></a></p> <p><strong>Angeline Chemel</strong><br /> PhD candidate in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology<br /> <a href="https://vimeo.com/1026270878/c684959c3a?ts=1737392&share=copy" target="_blank"><em>Channeling KCNT1 at the Cilia: Ion Flux and Epilepsy</em></a></p> <p><strong>Cuyler Luck</strong><br /> PhD candidate in Biomedical Sciences<br /> <a href="https://vimeo.com/1026270878/c684959c3a?ts=2238977&share=copy" target="_blank"><em>It Takes Two: Dissecting Fusion Gene Function</em></a></p> <p><strong>Camille Moore</strong><br /> PhD candidate in Tetrad<br /> <a href="https://vimeo.com/1026270878/c684959c3a?ts=2729566&share=copy" target="_blank"><em>Nucleosome Density and Chromatin Remodeling Affect Chromatin Compaction</em></a> </p> <p><strong>Jennifer Langen</strong><br /> PhD candidate in Neuroscience<br /> <a href="https://vimeo.com/1026270878/c684959c3a?ts=3378482&share=copy" target="_blank"><em>Phase Separation of Protocadherin Proteins is Required for Neural Self-avoidance and Wiring</em></a></p> <hr /> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols layout--50-50"> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols--first bg--transparent"> <div style="text-align:center"> <figure class="image" style="display:inline-block"><img alt="" height="288" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra286/f/wysiwyg/DF-symposium24-page-formatted.jpg" width="432" /> <figcaption>Donor Roger Page, center, chats with Discovery Fellows.</figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols--second bg--transparent"> <div style="text-align:center"> <figure class="image" style="display:inline-block"><img alt="Kenya Bonitto presents her poster" height="288" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra286/f/wysiwyg/DF-symposium24-bonnitto-formatted.jpg" width="432" /> <figcaption>Kenya Bonitto, 4th-year fellow, shares her poster.</figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols layout--50-50"> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols--first bg--transparent"> <div style="text-align:center"> <figure class="image" style="display:inline-block"><img alt="Kevin Ly presents his poster" height="288" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra286/f/wysiwyg/DF-symposium24-ly-formatted.jpg" width="432" /> <figcaption>4th-year fellow Kevin Ly shares his poster with Discovery Fellow peers.</figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols--second bg--transparent"> <div style="text-align:center"> <figure class="image" style="display:inline-block"><img alt="guests chat during the reception" height="288" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra286/f/wysiwyg/DF-symposium24-mccormick-ghen-formatted.jpg" width="432" /> <figcaption>Courtney McCormick (second from right), president of the Graduate Division Alumni Association, chats with Discovery Fellow Chloe Ghent.</figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> </div> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://makeagift.ucsf.edu/discoveryfellows" target="_blank">Make a gift to the Discovery Fellows Program.</a></p> <hr /> <p><em>All photos by Sonya Yruel</em></p> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="column"> <div class="sidebar_top"> <div class="region region-sidebar-top"> <div id="block-block-1" class="block block-block placeholder--block"> <div class="content"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div id="footer"> <div class="section"> <div class="region region-footer"> <div id="block-block-26" class="block block-block"> <div class="content"> <div class="wysiwyg_threecols layout--33-33-33"> <div class="wysiwyg_threecols--first bg--undefined bg--interactive-dark-blue"> <p><strong>UCSF Graduate Division</strong><br /> 1675 Owens St, Suite 310<br /> Campus Box 0523<br /> phone: 415.476.2310<br /> email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1e796c7f7a6b7f6a7b307a7768776d7771705e6b7d6d78307b7a6b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4225302326372336276c262b342b312b2d2c02372131246c272637">[email protected]</span></a><br /> <br /> Like numbers? 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