Lab News

2/28/2025: Congratulations to Nancy, Karli, and Bianca for presenting at the S3 student symposium (see pictures at right)!
2/2025: Welcome to our new JDP rotation student, Courtney!
2/2025: We are delighted to be the recipients of a collaborative grant from the California Thirdhand Smoke Consortium Pilot Award!

1/2025: Welcome our new undergrad, Aysha Walker, to the lab!
12/13/2024: Happy Holidays! Here are the results from our first annual Holiday Cookie Decorating Party (see photo, right)!
12/2024: Welcome Ryan Bench to our lab! Ryan is a rotation student in the JDP program.
10/2024: Congratulations to Nancy for winning First Place Poster at the SALUD (Symposium and Luncheon Underscoring Diversity) event at Scripps Research Institute!
12/13/2024: Happy Holidays! Here are the results from our first annual Holiday Cookie Decorating Party (see photo, right)!
12/2024: Welcome Ryan Bench to our lab! Ryan is a rotation student in the JDP program.
10/2024: Congratulations to Nancy for winning First Place Poster at the SALUD (Symposium and Luncheon Underscoring Diversity) event at Scripps Research Institute!

10/2024: Some members of Monkkonen and House labs at the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Event (see photo, right)
9/2024: A belated welcome to the lab to our new master's student, Brayden Chin!
6/2024: Congrats Bianca, on acceptance to the SDSU MARC program!
5/2024: Welcome new undergraduates, Bianca + Karli! They will work on a pilot project in developmental biology.
9/2024: A belated welcome to the lab to our new master's student, Brayden Chin!
6/2024: Congrats Bianca, on acceptance to the SDSU MARC program!
5/2024: Welcome new undergraduates, Bianca + Karli! They will work on a pilot project in developmental biology.

5/2024: The lab welcomes a new microscope in tissue culture!
5/2024: Welcome to the lab, Nancy! We are excited that Nancy has decided to continue in the lab after her rotation.
4/2024: The lab receives funding for a Moore's Cancer Center Pilot Grant through the Cancer Biology and Signaling program!
4/9/2024: Jeffrey, Teresa, Megan, and Nancy at AACR Conference in San Diego. (see photo, right)
3/11/2024: Our article on SC RNA sequencing of fibroblasts is live! Check it out here:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2024.1304853/full
2/2024: Jeffrey + Teresa's review article, written with Omar Lujano Olazaba in the House lab, is accepted for publication in Frontiers in Genetics! Title: Fibroblast Heterogeneity and Functions: Insights from Single-Cell Sequencing in Wound Healing, Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer and Melanoma
2/2024: Rotation students Megan and Nancy are joining the lab next week!
2/2024: Dr. Monkkonen speaks at UCSD Moore's Cancer Center Office of Translational Science Spark-a-Thon
1/2024: Welcome to the lab, undergraduate Amelia!
1/2024: Undergraduate Nate accepted into the SDSU/ UCSD CREATE Scholars program
12/2023: Dr. Monkkonen has an article out in Nature Cancer on starting her lab in 2023. Link
12/2023: The lab receives SDSU Seed Grant Funding for a project in mammary gland biology for 2024!
5/2024: Welcome to the lab, Nancy! We are excited that Nancy has decided to continue in the lab after her rotation.
4/2024: The lab receives funding for a Moore's Cancer Center Pilot Grant through the Cancer Biology and Signaling program!
4/9/2024: Jeffrey, Teresa, Megan, and Nancy at AACR Conference in San Diego. (see photo, right)
3/11/2024: Our article on SC RNA sequencing of fibroblasts is live! Check it out here:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2024.1304853/full
2/2024: Jeffrey + Teresa's review article, written with Omar Lujano Olazaba in the House lab, is accepted for publication in Frontiers in Genetics! Title: Fibroblast Heterogeneity and Functions: Insights from Single-Cell Sequencing in Wound Healing, Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer and Melanoma
2/2024: Rotation students Megan and Nancy are joining the lab next week!
2/2024: Dr. Monkkonen speaks at UCSD Moore's Cancer Center Office of Translational Science Spark-a-Thon
1/2024: Welcome to the lab, undergraduate Amelia!
1/2024: Undergraduate Nate accepted into the SDSU/ UCSD CREATE Scholars program
12/2023: Dr. Monkkonen has an article out in Nature Cancer on starting her lab in 2023. Link
12/2023: The lab receives SDSU Seed Grant Funding for a project in mammary gland biology for 2024!