2:00-2:20 pm               “Towards a multiscale synthesis of skin regeneration: Single cell transcriptomics and modeling reveal functional fibroblast heterogeneity in skin wounds”

Christian Guerrero-Juarez, UC-Irvine

BIO: Christian Guerrero-Juarez was born and raised in Morelia, Michoacán, México. HE received dual B.S./B.A. Degrees in Biology and Biochemistry at California State University, San Bernardino in 2012, and completed his M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees at University of California, Irvine in 2018 where he studied cellular reprogramming during skin regeneration. As a graduate student, he received funding through the MBRS-IMSD and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Programs and was  awarded the 2015 Susan V. Bryant Graduate Fellowship Award, 2017 Howard A. Schneiderman Graduate Fellowship Award, and Premio Michoacano de la Juventud 2018 – Mérito Académico (2018 Michoacán Youth Prize – Academic Merit) – the highest distinction given by the State Government of Michoacán, Mexico to excelling young professionals in their respective fields. Christian joined the Nie laboratory in July 2018 as a UC Irvine Chancellor’s ADVANCE Postdoctoral Fellow. Currently, he is an NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research Fellow and was a finalist in the 2019 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellowship Program competition. His research interests include cell fate choice and cellular reprogramming during injury and disease, and he seeks to use a multiscale approach to better understand these processes as they are realized in vivo.