Meyer Lab at UCLA
We integrate experimental and computational strategies to measure, model, and therapeutically manipulate cell-to-cell communication, with applications in the development of immune and cancer therapies.
News
Congratulations to Max for being selected for the URC-Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP) for the 2026–2027 academic year!
The lab spent the weekend camping in Big Bear, taking a break from the lab bench to enjoy the mountains together.
Dr. Meyer gave the opening keynote at the Amgen Scholars Program North America Symposium.
Welcome to Jade Finley, joining the lab through the CDU/UCLA Undergraduate Cancer Research Training Program, and Mia Stewart, joining through the Amgen Scholars Program, for the summer!
Dr. Meyer gave an invited talk, “Deciphering the Inflammatory Milieu: Tracking and Disrupting Tissue-Local Cytokine Regulation: Application to Transplantation and Beyond,” at the ASHI/AMLI Joint Member Society Symposium at the 2026 FOCIS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Dr. Meyer gave an invited talk, “Deciphering the Inflammatory Milieu: Tracking and Disrupting Tissue-Local Cytokine Regulation,” at the Gordon Research Conference on Signal Transduction by Engineered Extracellular Matrices in Switzerland.
Welcome to JJ Schirle, who joined the lab in Spring 2026 as a Biomathematics Ph.D. student! Prior to joining the lab, he worked in industry as a bioinformatician supporting AAV capsid engineering. He is interested in building computational models to understand how cells respond to perturbations and other stimuli. JJ is supported by the UCLA Genomic Analysis Training Program fellowship.
Congratulations to Michelle Loui for receiving the UCLA Bioengineering Department Fellowship!
Andrew successfully defended his thesis on using tensor decomposition methods for exploring and modeling single cell data. Dr. Ramirez will be moving to become an INSPIRE fellow in Jackie Yang’s lab at Rutgers University.
Welcome to Max Larour-Debonneuil and Lipika Goel, who joined the lab in fall 2025 as undergraduate researchers! Max is majoring in Chemical Engineering and is working on reconstructing gene networks for virtual cell models. Lipika is majoring in Computational Biology and is also working on building gene networks for virtual cell models.
The lab’s research into the immune response of ovarian cancer was featured in U magazine.
Jackson successfully defended his thesis on using tensor learning methods to integrate different data sources. Dr. Chin will be starting a postdoctoral fellowship at Pacific Northwest National Labs.
Congratulations to Michelle Loui for winning a Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center predoctoral fellowship! This award will partially support her studies.