The Youth Science Fellowship Program (YSFP), hosted by the UCI Cancer Research Institute, allows High School students to gain hands-on cancer research experience. Congratulations Leisha on an exciting presentation at the YSFP symposium!

The honor was earned during the 2026 FASEB Cell Cycle Regulation in Health and Disease meeting in Niagara Falls, NY. Congratulations Amrutha!

Congratulations Heeva!

Check out our lab's latest preprint, where we uncover an interesting connection between the cell division machinery and early gene expression in embryogenesis: Cyclin B3-CDK1 couples translational de-repression to embryonic mitoses via OMA protein degradation in C. elegans

Heeva, Aqilla, Powel, Emma and Maab presented their research during the 2026 UROP symposium. A record number of presenters from the lab!

Congratulations to Maab, Powel and Emma on receiving UROP Research Experience Fellowships!

For the second year in a row, our lab has won our Department's Halloween competition for best pumpkin decoration in the "Most Creative" category. You can find our entry from last year here: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/db4ab0_447289051c44431d8be0da4c65c6fbc4~mv2.jpg

Members of our lab participated in the 2025 UCI anti-cancer challenge that raises awareness and funds to support cancer research at UC Irvine. If you want to donate to our team, visit the link below: https://www.anti-cancerchallenge.org/PabloLaraGonzalez?tab=Team

We are grateful for this grant that will allow our group to continue our work on mitosis and cancer. See also:...

At the Lara-Gonzalez lab we had a very busy and productive summer. Highlights include: Amrutha presented at the 2025 Salk Cell Cycle...

Time goes by so quickly! We could not have reached this milestone if it wasn't for all the wonderful people who have contributed to our...

Our lab recently attended the 2024 Cell Bio Meeting in San Diego, where our members presented their work either as posters or as talks....

After waiting for several months, the renovations in our permanent laboratory space are finished and we can finally move. We are very...

We're thrilled to announce that the Lara-Gonzalez lab received an NIH MIRA-R35 grant from NIGMS that will fund our research for the next...

This first year has gone by very quickly. Thank you to everyone who has helped making our group grow and develop!

Congratulations to Shabnam, Anh and Nguyen for doing an excellent job at presenting their work as part of the 2023 Undergraduate Research...

Congratulations to Shabnam and Anh for being selected as Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) 2022 Research Experience...

Testing out our fluorescence dissection stereoscope with a strain expressing a red fluorescent marker in the pharynx. Movie courtesy of...

The lab welcomes our first two work/study program students, Anh and Shabnam. We're excited to have you on board!

As of April 1st of 2022, the Lara-Gonzalez lab has started at the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology at UC Irvine. We're very...