2026

January

  • Colin Detrick will be rotating for Winter 2026!
  • Edith Baladez Nava and Madeline Johnson join the Hayes Lab!

March

  • Thank you Colin Detrick for rotating in the Hayes Lab!
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June

  • Congratulations to the class of 2026! Thank you to Kimberly Jorge and Gizelle Ramirez for their time and contribution to the lab! We wish them well on all their future endeavors!
spring social


 

2025

 

January

  • Eric Perez joins the Hayes Lab!
  • Amy Rios and Tiffany La are rotating for Winter 2025!

February

  • Kimberly Jorge presents a poster at the 2025 CAMP Symposium at UC Irvine!

March

  • Thank you Amy Rios and Tiffany La for great rotations in the Hayes Lab
Lab Social

April

  • Kimberly Jorge was featured in the University of California Newsletter!
  • The Hayes Lab attends the JCCC Symposium and Kimberly Jorge Presents a Poster!
JCCC

July

  • Over the summer, Chester Thompson had the pleasure of working as a counselor with 14 wonderful kids as part of UCLA’s Camp Kesem Chapter! 

    Camp Kesem

August

  • Amy Rios joins the Hayes Lab as our first graduate student!

September

  • Aparamita Pandey joins the Hayes Lab as a project scientist!
  • Mukun Liu is rotating for Fall 2025!

November

  • Ethan Nasseri, a COMPASS fellow, joins the Hayes Lab!
  • Kimberly Jorge presents a poster at the department of Pharmacology Retreat 

    p retreat

December

  • Thank you Mukun Liu for a great rotation in the Hayes Lab
  • Congratulations to Gizelle Ramirez for being accepted to the Undergraduate Research Fellows Program!
2024

January

  • Hayes Lab opens!
  • Kimberly Jorge and Gizelle Rameriz join the Hayes Lab! 

February

  • Diego Verastegui joins the Hayes Lab!

April

  • Tiki Hayes presents at American Association for Cancer Research in San Diego
  • Kimberly Jorge is awarded a UCLA summer research grant
  • Gizelle Rameriz awarded a summer internship at Cedar Sinai
  • Lab starts up with brand new equipment! 

    Varies boxes from ThermoFisher and Eppendorf.

May

  • Tiki Hayes serves as a panelist for the Channing Der Career Symposium.

     

Dr. Tiki Hayes presenting at the Channing Der Career Symposium in front of a crowd.

July

  • Chester Thompson joins the lab!
  • Tissue culture learning has commenced! 

     

Kimberly Jorge and Diego Verastegui practicing tissue culture.

August

  • Kimberly Jorge is awarded the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP) for the 2024-2025 academic school year!

September

  • Emma Lieberman is rotating for Fall 2024!
  • Summer lab outing to Corner Bakery
  • Thank you to Diego Verastegui for his valuable contribution towards building the lab!
Diego, Tiki, Kimberely in front of a sandwich shop.

December

  • Thank you Emma Lieberman for a great rotation!
  • Congratulations to Gizelle Ramirez for receiving the Dean’s Award for Life Science Research each quarter of the year!