Advancing excellence through faculty diversity

Leonila Lagunes

Education:

B.A., Applied Mathematics, California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Dissertation:

Scaffolding, Multisite Phosphorylation and Other Aspects of Regulation in Signal Transduction

Thesis Advisor:

Lee Bardwell, Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology, and German Enciso, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine

Research Topic:

Understanding Mycobacterium tuberculosis 20S proteasome assembly

Mentor:

Eric Deeds, Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position:

F32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles