Assistant Professor @ucsc studying epigenetic inheritance and sperm small RNAs
Joined November 2018
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
Registeration is now open! Join us for an incredible conference showcasing cutting-edge research on Epigenetic Inheritance! #EpigeneticInheritance2026
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
13 Jun 2025
A survey of dietary effects on tRNA abundance and modifications biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_genomic
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
21 Sep 2023
Grateful for all the support from past/current mentors an Awesome team @UCSCscience @Isobear1
@andrewolander4. Thank you @NIH @NCIResearchCtr for supporting our work!
New long-term NIH grant supports breast cancer research news.ucsc.edu/2023/09/breast… via @ucsc
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
8 Sep 2023
Excited to share our paper out online today! We labeled and tracked heritable non-genetic info transmitted from parents to their children. We found that starvation in ancestors leads to transgenerational phenotypes in naïve well-fed descendants, ... 1/9
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
31 Aug 2023
Happy to share our new RNA liquid biopsy paper published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering @natBME!
nature.com/articles/s41551-0…
This study was led by my former PhD student & @NIH F99/K00 Fellow @ReggiardoRoman, now a postdoc with @HowardYChang @StanfordMed @HHMINEWS.
A huge thank you to @AmericanCancer for funding this work through a Research Scholar award!
@ACS_Research @ACSNews @ACSCAN @AmerCancerCEO @lwelmore0320 @BaskinEng @ucscgenomics @IBSC_UCSC @UCSC_Research @CanaryCenter
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
23 Aug 2023
We have a complete #Ychromosome 🎉 It was the last human chromosome left unsequenced, but now the #T2Tconsortium led by UCSC & @genome_gov has finished it, revealing 41 additional genes! This will aid research on fertility and, believe it or not, bacteria. news.ucsc.edu/2023/08/t2t-y-…
ALT 100 members of the T2T consortium stand together in a field at UC Santa Cruz, with hands raised in celebration.
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
21 Aug 2023
My grandmother, who raised me, grew up in a village in Trinidad. She had to stop going to school at 11 years old to raise her younger siblings. She only has an elementary level education.
So it means more than words for her to see her granddaughter as a college professor ❤️🥹
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
17 Aug 2023
Especially in light of the Supreme Court decision banning race-based admissions, think how you can improve accessibility & equity of grad school admissions at your institution for talented early scientists from all historically marginalized groups.
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
17 Aug 2023
What can you, your department, or your institution do? Here are suggestions for various levels of graduate program operations.
Remember...
*do not depend on grad student labor (esp. from underrepresented backgrounds) to fix problems w/ your program or admissions process*
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ALT Figure 4 from article, illustrating actionable items for multi-level increasing of graduate school admissions equity and accessibility -- applicable for individual PIs/Professors, departments, and institutions.
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
17 Aug 2023
An incredible article, full of wisdom and important advice from the team @cientificolatin about the barriers that minority students face in grad school admissions! 🔥🔥🔥
so inspiring to see this published @CellCellPress 😮♥️
17 Aug 2023
Out now in @CellCellPress!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.…
Historically marginalized student representation drastically drops from undergrad to grad school.
Are underrepresented students unqualified? Or are grad school admissions unnecessarily confusing, costly, & gatekeeping?
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
17 Aug 2023
Interested in the role of extracellular vesicles in the nervous system? This meeting is for you!
🚨 Registration and abstract submission are open for the 1st ISEV Symposium on EVs in Nervous Systems! 🧠
Registration link: buff.ly/3qt5sBZ
Among the confirmed speakers are @vdb_roos, @JasonSynaptic, @TsuneyaIkezu, @albers_eva, @yanglab_tufts and many more!
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
15 Aug 2023
Presenting the Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, a new lab space focused on translating @ucscgenomics ’s cutting-edge genomic research tools into clinical care. Thank you to Rebecca and @collbud for their generous gift to make this lab a reality! molecular-diagnostics-lab.uc…
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
16 Aug 2023
🎉 Congratulations to Angela Brooks on her promotion to #BaskinEngineering full professor! @TheBrooksLab develops computational and experimental tools to investigate RNA splicing mutations in cancer cells and discover new ways to treat cancer. Learn more: brookslab.soe.ucsc.edu/
ALT Angela Brooks, promoted to full professor of biomolecular engineering
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
15 Aug 2023
We are thrilled to welcome the new dean of the @ucsc science division, Bryan Gaensler @SciBry, to the banana slug family starting today! We look forward to embarking on this new chapter under Gaensler’s visionary leadership. Please join us in giving him a warm welcome🌊🌲🍌🐌
ALT portrait of Bryan Gaensler in a suit jacket smiling at the camera with trees in the background
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
16 Jun 2023
Thrilled to get promoted to Full Professor @ucsc . Huge thanks to all the hard working members of the Carpenter lab past and present. I appreciate you all***
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
10 Aug 2023
We are excited for @yvonne_vsqz to present her work at Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) this weekend! She will discuss Treehouse's collaboration with @StanfordChild for children with difficult-to-treat solid tumors. #CGCAnnual2023
ALT Photo of Yvonne
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Upasna Sharma retweeted
4 Aug 2023
Join our team in sunny Santa Cruz California! The Kim lab at UCSC, department of MCD Biology, is seeking a research specialist and a postdoc to engineer next generation neural circuit viral tracers.
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