PhD student at UCSD in Dr. Jazz Dickinson’s lab 🌱2023 HHMI Gilliam Fellow 🌿 interested in metabolite patterning in maize roots🍃@sacnas_UCSD
Joined April 2022
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
5 Feb 2025
NDiSTEM introduction and fun game of family feud Monday, Feb 10!! Join us if you are interested in attending a scientific conference and want to spend time with other SACNISTAS!! (plus there will be empanadas!)
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
28 Jan 2025
Join us next Monday as we continue our Cafecito Chat series with Dr. Andrew Mendiola from @UCSDPharm
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
11 Oct 2024
Join us tomorrow 3-5pm for an event with @EliLillyandCo @LillyCareers Learn about their internship programs and meet with recruiters and scientists! Food and networking opportunities provided!
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
3 Oct 2024
Welcome back Sacnistas! Join us next Wednesday, October 9th 4:30-6pm for our first general body meeting!
We will introduce the new board (and recruit for open board positions!), eat some good food and prep resumes for our Eli Lilly Recruitment event happening next Friday!🧬
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
2 Oct 2024
New in @newphyt: Plants widen pores on their leaves as a heat response, but a full understanding of this function has been lacking. @UCSandiego biologists have now unlocked these details and ID'd two ways plants handle rising temperatures. #climatechange
go.ucsd.edu/3ZOiRn5
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24 Sep 2024
another amazing #GilliamFellows meeting has come and gone! It was so great reconnecting with my cohort and welcoming the new one! love this community of scientists 🌱✨ @HHMINEWS
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
8 Sep 2024
Thanks #DivSch24 for a weekend of professional development and the opportunity to connect with other SACNAS chapters! @SacnasUCI @sacnas_ucla @sacnasusc @UH_SACNAS
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Incredible!!!! I am blessed. A big thank you to my PI for her support as I embark on this journey to contribute immensely in the fight against Lassa virus.
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19 Jul 2024
got to present my research at #ICAR2024 and see my lab present too! was super fun to see my PI (and lab mates!) talk about the work our lab is doing! especially proud of my undergrad mentee who presented a poster! 🌱
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28 Jun 2024
gave my first ever conference talk at @ASPB 2024! If I had to be a stressed anxious girly somewhere, Hawai’i was a pretty good place to do it 🌈 met so many amazing people and made some great connections! 🌱
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
3 Jun 2024
Intrested in becoming a SACNAS board member? Apply now!!
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
23 May 2024
Midterms got you stressed? SACNAS has got you covered . Come join us for a fun, silly paint night with fellow members ! No art skills necessary! Happening Thursday May 30th, 4pm in the green table room (2nd floor PC).
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9 May 2024
Happening tomorrow!! Come support @sacnas_UCSD there will be a great talk with some good food and community!
8 May 2024
Andrea Sama and Jazz Dickinson have been awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship, paving the way for a May 10 keynote address on issues of health equity in the Latinx community.
Details: go.ucsd.edu/3QASUSK
Event registration: bit.ly/3QBzT2p
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3 May 2024
so excited for our final fireside chat! very grateful to @HHMINEWS and my PI for the support that made it possible! @ucsdbiosciences
3 May 2024
Having Dr. Alcántara as our closing speaker May 10th wouldn’t be possible without our amazing treasurer @andreamsama and support from HHMI Gilliam! Read more about from @UCSanDiego here ⬇️
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
30 Apr 2024
We super excited to have Dr. Carmela Alcántara from @Columbia as our final fireside chat speaker this year!
Hear about her incredible journey and research with Latinx communities. May 10th at 11am in the Kavli Auditorium, with lunch to follow! @UCSDBioSciGrad @AlcantaraPhD
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
2 Apr 2024
Welcome back Tritons! Start off the quarter with our next fireside chat from Dr. Nabora Reyes de Barboza on Monday 4/8. Come hear more about her exciting journey and learn more about her incoming lab
@reyes_lab here at @ucsdbiosciences. 🧬
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
15 Mar 2024
Want to hear a research talk in Spanish? Come to CaSAS first Seminar talk next Thursday 3/21! @CaSAS_UCSD
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Andrea Sama @amsama.bsky.social retweeted
28 Feb 2024
We are excited to have Dr. Daniela Valdez-Jasso from the Engineering department as our next fireside chat speaker! Come hear about her unique journey in academia and get inspired on Thursday, March 7th 1pm in 3500 Pac Hall.
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