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2. Seet C.S., Li, S., Chick, B., Casero, D., Gschweng, E.H., Zhu, Y., Miao, R., Montel-Hagen, A., Kohn, D.B., Sehl, M., Crooks, G.M., Notch Signaling Promotes the Differentiation of Human CLEC9A+ Dendritic Cells from Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells, Oral Presentation, American Society of Hematology (ASH) 59th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 11, 2017
3. Montel-Hagen, A.*, Seet C.S.* (*co-first authors), Li, S., Chick, B., Chang, P., Zhu, Y., He, C., Lopez, S., Crooks, G.M., In Vitro Generation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived T Cells for Immunotherapy, Oral Presentation, American Society of Hematology (ASH) 59th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 11, 2017
4. Casero D., Sandoval S., Seet C.S., Scholes J., Zhu Y., Ha V., Parekh C, Crooks G.M. (2015) Long non-coding RNA profiling of human lymphoid progenitor cells reveals transcriptional divergence of B cell and T cell lineages. Nature Immunology, Dec;16(12):1282-91
5. Seet C.S., Crooks G.M., (2025), Chapter 74: Lymphopoiesis, Williams Hematology, 9th Edition, Kaushansky K. et al. (Editor), McGraw-Hill Education
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7. Kohn L. A., Seet C.S., Scholes J., Codrea F., Chan R., Zaidi-Merchant S., Zhu Y. De Oliveira S., Kapoor N., Shah A., Abdel-Azim H., Kohn D.B., Crooks G.M. (2014) Human lymphoid development in the absence of common y-chain receptor signaling, J Immunol. Jun 1;192(11):5050-8.
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• NIH/UCLA CTSI KL2 Translational Science Award, 2017, 2018
• Broad Stem Cell Research Center at UCLA Clinical Fellow, 2016, 2017, 2018
• 1st Place, Department of Medicine Poster Competition, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 2017
• UCLA CTSI Core Voucher Award, 2017
• Career Development Award, Tower Cancer Research Foundation, 2015
• Research Innovator Award, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 2015
• Young Investigator Award at ImmunologyLA, American Association of Immunologists, 2015
• NIH T32 Hematology Training Grant, 2013-2016
• Fellow Teaching Award Nominee, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 2012