News

2023

• Grace passes her quals and shows off her trophy!

  Go Grace!

• Honesty joins the lab, welcome!

• Jen passes her quals with flying colors!
  

  Go Jen!

2022

• Lyndsay opens her own lab at Genentech!

• Grace and Jen join the lab!

• Katie graduates and accepts a job at GC Therapeutics!

• Zev is re-elected as a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator!

• Austin is awarded a fellowship from the CZ Biohub to further our collaboration with Rafael Gomez-Sjoberg's group!

2021

• Brittany is awarded a prestigious LSRF postdoctoral fellowship.

• Tyler is honored to be awarded an F32 postdoctoral fellowship from the NIH.

• Qin joins the lab. Welcome!

• Kim joins the lab. Welcome!

• Austin joins the lab. Welcome!

• Ali joins us to forward our joint project with the Klein Lab.

• Gabby passes her quals. Woohoo!

• Congratulations to Jennifer for graduating and starting at Upside foods.

• Hikaru graduates and begins a position at Gordian Biotechnology.

• Katie graduates and begins a position at GC Therapeutics.

• Chris graduates and begins his postdoc at Stanford.

2020

• Members of the Gartner Lab contribute to COVID screening at the CLIAHUB.

• Amanda graduates and accepts a position with the ATOM consortium.

• Gabby joins the lab.

• Iain is awarded a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• Iain is recognized with a UCSF HIVE and CIHR fellowship.

• The NIH has funded our growing collaboration with the Klein Lab to investigate the self-organizing properties of the intestinal mesenchyme.

2019

• Tyler joins the lab.

• Iain joins the lab.

• Brittany joins the lab.

• Kiet passes his quals.

• Danny passes his quals.

• Dave accepts a position as scientist with 10X Genomics.

• The NIH Physical Science Oncology Network has funded our work investigating tissue self-organization in breast cancer.

2018

• Alex starts his lab at UPenn.

• Danny joins the lab.

• Kiet joins the lab.

• Katie and Jennifer share their work at Grad Slam.

• Lyndsay and Jennifer win best poster prize at the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting.

• Lyndsay takes third place at Postdoc Slam.

• Chris passes his quals.

• Dave is awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship.

2017

• Alejandro joins the lab.

• Olivia is awarded an NSF fellowship.

• Chris joins the lab.

• Jesse, Hikaru, and Olivia pass their quals.

  Hikaru, smiling, wears Wonder Woman bracelets and tiara.

• Zev is elected a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator.

• Read Jennifer’s commentary on how organoids could be used to study aging in humans: Opportunities for organoids as new models of aging.

• Alex’s paper on engineering tissue folding is out in Developmental Cell: Engineered Tissue Folding by Mechanical Compaction of the Mesenchyme.

• Efren and Andrew take to the surf at our annual lab retreat.

2016

• Kade’s paper in collaboration with the Jun Lab is accepted at Cell.

• Lab marriage: Sam and Rob tie the knot.

• Noah Berger

  Alex and Zev meet Jill Biden and Vice President Joe Biden at UCSF:

  • VP Joe Biden Visits UCSF to Advance National Cancer Moonshot Initiative

  • Joe Biden, wife hold cancer roundtable at UCSF

• Andrew and Michael’s collaboration with the Schaffer Lab on building synthetic cell communities is out in Nature Communications: Interrogating cellular fate decisions with high-throughput arrays of multiplexed cellular communities.

2015

• Andrew passes quals. Go Andrew!

• Zev is selected among the Brilliant 10 by Popular Science: Brilliant 10: Zev Gartner Builds Tissues That Snap Together Like Legos.

• Noel and Michael’s paper on 3D tissue synthesis is out in Nature Methods: Programmed synthesis of three-dimensional tissues.

• Jennifer, Katy and Efren join the lab.

• Alex is awarded a prestigious Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• Lyndsay is awarded a prestigious Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• Dave and Vasudha join the lab.

• Zev gets promoted.

• Alec graduates.

• Michael graduates.

• Noel graduates.

2014

• Alec’s paper appears online in PNAS.

• Rob and Sam’s paper is out.

• Lyndsay joins the lab.

• Rob passes quals. Woohoo!

• Justin graduates with his PhD.

• Justin and Kade publish in JoVE.

• Sam’s paper out in JACS.

• Kyle becomes a professor.

• Andrew joins the lab.

• Max joins the lab.

• Amanda passes her quals. Sweet!

2013

• Alex joins the lab.

• Kade passes quals. Nice!

• Justin’s paper is out in Nature Methods.

• Jen graduates with her PhD.

• Chithra joins the lab.

• Alec passes quals. Felicitations!

• Rob joins the lab.

2012

• Jen’s paper is out in Cell Reports.

• Kade joins the lab.

• Kyle is awarded NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• Amanda joins the lab.

• Nick’s paper appears in JACS.

2011

• Congratulations, Zev.

• Alec joins the lab.

• Noel passes quals. Fantastic!

• Sam passes quals. Hurray!

• Michael passes quals. Congrats!

• Kyle Joins the lab.

• Nick leaves the lab and starts medical school at UCSF.

• Matthias starts a job in Austria.

Before 2011

• Mathias joins the lab.

• Sam and Noel join the lab.

• Nick joins the lab.

• Justin and Michael join the lab.

• Jen joins the lab.

• The Gartner lab opens its doors!

  A lab is born...