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CSC welcomes Matylda Zietek

Posted on by Beverley Rabbitts

Starting today, Matylda will be working on screening projects for Scott Lokey and Fitnat Yildiz. She comes to us from the Typas lab at EMBL in Heidelberg, bringing with her 15+ years experience in research, including expertise in high throughput screening. She also has extensive knowledge and skills in areas of microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and cell culture. She came highly recommended, being described as “extremely efficient and beloved” and a rare asset. See her profile and CV here.

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CSC says farewell to Britney

Posted on by Beverley Rabbitts

We had bittersweet lunch today to celebrate the contributions of Britney Hernandez. An MCD graduate from UCSC, Britney served as our exceptional, hardworking Junior Specialist II from January 2020 to July 2021. She maintained the CSC operations through the pandemic and performed key cytological profiling assays for the Center for High Content Functional Annotation of Natural Products and other collaborators. She leaves us for new adventures on the East Coast, and we wish her good luck at her new position of Research Specialist at Emory University. (photo from Linkedin.com)

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a photo of Beverley and her dog at the ocean in Santa Cruz

CSC welcomes a new Director of Operations

Posted on by Beverley Rabbitts

Starting today, Dr. Beverley M. Rabbitts will be managing the CSC under the Faculty Director, Dr. R. Scott Lokey. See her biography here.

As a microscopist and biochemist, what drew me to a career in support of shared research resources is the privilege of contributing in an interdisciplinary way to numerous lines of investigation – the impact of which is vastly extended by the UCSC CSC bringing pharmaceutical industry-level equipment to an academic setting. I am excited about the exotic natural products being tested in the CSC and their translational potential as well as the challenges of assay development.