Mackenzie Lab Events
2024
October 2024:
- Root-beer-floats Tuesday!
- We celebrated our lab's BMS retreat awards with coffee in the sun!

September 2024:
- Travis, Marco, Kaylee, Fareha, and Atesh attended the Biomedical Sciences (BMS) retreat.

August 2024:
- Fareha, Marco, Ellie, Nilufar, Tony, Beth and Lottie after the Sarcoma Strong 5K Race!

July 2024:
- Our summer student, Ellie, successfully performed her first H&E stain of fetal cartilage.

- Ernesto attended the International Society for Stem Cell Research Conference in Hamburg, Germany and gave a poster presentation.

- Akos attended and spoke at International Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy in Boston and is pictured below with the Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine team at UCSF.

- We are thrilled to have a student intern in our lab this summer. Welcome to the lab, Ellie!
June 2024:
- Tippi attended the Fetal Medicine Foundation World Conference, Lisbon
- We celebrated Marco and Ernesto’s birthday!

May 2024
- Beltran and Atesh attended the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy 27th Annual Meeting. Dr. MacKenzie and Beltran gave a podium presentation.

- Tony gave a podium presentation at the 37th Annual Surgery Resident Research Symposium
- Beltran and colleagues published 'Prenatal AAV9-GFP administration in fetal lambs results in transduction of female germ cells and maternal exposure to virus' in Molecular Therapy.
- Congrats on successfully defending your thesis and receiving your Master’s degree, Marco. We are proud of you!

April 2024
- We celebrated Beltran’s birthday!

February 2024:
- We are proud to share that Dr. MacKenzie was featured in STAT News for our groundbreaking work on treating fetuses with genetic conditions using molecular therapies, including genome editing.

- Maria and colleagues published 'Prenatal delivery of a therapeutic antisense oligonucleotide achieves broad biodistribution in the brain and ameliorates Angelman syndrome phenotype in mice' in Molecular Therapy
January 2024:
- CMFPM symposium
- We visited MacKenzie Lab Alum, Maria Clarke, at UC Davis after a day of surgeries!

- Ernesto and Marco at a concert

2023
December 2023:
- Herzeg et al., Intrauterine enzyme replacement therapies for lysosomal storage disorders: Current developments and promising future prospects was published
- We celebrated together at Tippi's Christmas party, enjoying a fun white elephant gift exchange!

October 2023:
- Welcome, Roshani!
September 2023:
- Welcome, Atesh!
August 2023:
- Welcome, Fareha!
July 2023:
- Welcome, Tony!
June 2023:
- Akos spoke with Mary Norton at the Fetal Medicine Foundation World Conference, Valencia
- iFeTIS 2023 International Fetal Transplantation and Immunology Society Meeting
- Beltran presented at iFETIS in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Beltran presented at CureSMA in Orlando, FL!
- Maria’s white coat ceremony at UC Davis

May 2023
- Beltran and Tippi went to ASGCT. Beltran presented poster.
- Maria’s Farewell Beach Party!
April 2023
- Workshop on Prenatal Somatic Cell Gene Therapy and Gene Editing−Ethical Considerations
March 2023:
- Akos spoke at SIMD Conference in Salt Lake City.
- Beltran, Maria, and Akos after surgeries at UC Davis!

February 2023:
- Akos spoke at WORLD Conference, Orlando
January 2023:
- Welcome, Marco!
2022
December 2022:
- Maria had a podium presentation at the FAST conference (Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics) in Miami, FL. Beltran, Emma, and Julia joined on behalf of the Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine.


October 2022:
- MacKenzie–Cromer Lab Retreat.

September 2022:
- Lab Lunch!
