First lab meeting of the school year. Going over the basics of Drosophila genetics. @sfstatebio.bsky.social #drosophila

Shea from Prof. Kevin Simonin’s lab is measuring the water cost of flowers 🌼 in California poppy populations at Mt. Diablo. Flowering is essential for reproduction, but it comes with a price. This work uncovers how plants balance beauty, survival, and resilience. #PlantScience #CaliforniaPoppy

The Tonos lab headed to the field to kick-off a project examining the relationship between Malagasy fruit-eating #birds and fruiting #plants. They seek to understand these relationships in degraded and #protected areas, and how they may recover due to community-led #conservation efforts!

☀️🔥 Nothing says dedication like hauling wetland soil cores under the blazing sun! Huge shout-out to our postdoc Sona and lab tech Danica for braving the heat to bring back samples that hold secrets of microbial life and carbon cycling. 🌱🦠 #fieldwork #wetlands #phages

Summer in the field with the Boria Lab @SFSU 🌿 Students monitored small mammals across Bay Area habitats, from dunes near the Golden Gate to redwood forests. Hands-on training + real data for conservation science. #Fieldwork #Ecology #BoriaLab

Science meets storytelling 🌍✨ Check out this new blog post from the Sehgal Lab that dives the hidden connections between parasites, biodiversity, and human health. Read more here: www.ravindersehgal.com?p=2899 #ScienceBlog #ResearchMatters #Microbiology #Conservation #LabLife

New from the Swei lab in Science Advances: In California’s Mediterranean climate, infected ticks don’t respond to weather like uninfected ticks. Cloud cover ↑ density; wind ↓ it. Implications for Lyme risk forecasting. #LymeDisease #DiseaseEcology #ClimateChange #VectorBiology #SFSU

Phage season in the lab 🧫🦠 We kicked off a DOE-supported workshop with students from @sfstatebio.bsky.social & @sdsuresearch.bsky.social trained by @berkeleylab.lbl.gov From streaking to top-agar pours to plaques: future viromics pros in the making! #PhagePathways #PhageDiscovery #Microbiology

Our #PASEDB community is growing thanks to passionate leaders like ours! ✨🙌 @karen-crow.bsky.social president from @sfstatebio.bsky.social , Leslie Pick previous president from @umdentomology.bsky.social and Chris Amemiya past president from @ucmerced.bsky.social

Today was special. My first master’s student successfully defended his thesis! Michael Hajkowski was the first student to ask to join my lab in Jan 2023 determined, and passionate. Now, he’s off to UC Riverside for a PhD! While we’ll miss him deeply, I couldn’t be prouder. @sfstatebio.bsky.social

Our very first thesis defense! Anand Lab is proud to support this milestone in environmental microbiology and public health. Friday, May 9 | 10 AM–12 PM | Thornton Hall (Blakeslee Room) + Zoom #AnandLab #ThesisDefense #OneHealth #AMR @sfstatebio.bsky.social @archanand.bsky.social #Metagenomics

Animal lovers + science nerds, unite! Join Dr. Jan Randall @ SF State on May 8 for a student lunch & seminar on how animals talk to each other! Lunch: 12:30 | HH 520 Seminar: 2:00 | SEC 116 #Biology #AnimalBehavior #SFStateEvents

Such an interesting talk today @sfstatebio.bsky.social Seminar by Dr. Shannon Yan from #StanfordBiology Answering physical tension questions during various stages of mitosis, vesicle budding, and migration 🔬🧫🥼👩🏻‍🔬

Today’s @sfstatebio.bsky.social seminar with a “Mechanic in the house” #ShannonYan #StanfordBiology asking a big question: how does a cell physically divide? Amazing to see #mitotic membrane tension profiles generated by pulling at membrane with #optical_tweezers #optical_laser_trap #optogenetics

Excited to host Dr Shannon Yan (Stanford) at SF State Bio on May 1! 🥪 Student lunch 12:30–1:30 PM (HH 520) & 🔬 Seminar 2–3 PM + BIOL 870 Q&A 3–3:30 PM (SEC 116). Join us to dive into mechanobiology & live-cell force dynamics! #SFStateBio #Mechanobiology

Do baby poop #microbiomes correlate with higher risk for allergies & #asthma in early childhood? #SusanLynch #ucsfmicrobiome has evidence that microbiota products can promote #allergic #inflammation in mouse model! #intergenerational #12,13-diHOME #epigenetics #siolta @sfstatebio.bsky.social seminar

Excited to host Dr @taeseokmoon.bsky.social for our next #PhagePathways seminar! He’ll discuss how programmable microbes and microbiota are transforming diagnostics, waste management & sustainable bioproduction. Apr 18, 10AM PT. Scan QR code to join! #SyntheticBiology #Microbiome #DOE #PhagePathways

Earth Week at SFSU is here! From healing meditations to hands-on upcycling, come be part of a powerful movement toward climate and environmental justice. April 21–24. Check the full schedule and join us on campus! #EarthWeek #Sustainability #SFState #ClimateAction

Excited to host UCSF’s Dr. Susan Lynch @ SFSU Bio Colloquium, April 17. Topic: Leveraging early life microbiomes to treat disease. 12:30PM: Student lunch (HH 520) 2PM: Seminar (SEC 116) #Microbiomes #Asthma #ScienceTalk #SFSUBiology

Congratulations to Gen-PINC Scholar, Maria Anjum who has accepted a research internship at the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, Marson Lab!! The PINC program at SFSU is very proud to announce this well-deserved achievement! @sfstatebio.bsky.social @gladstoneinst.bsky.social

@sfstatebio.bsky.social Professor, Mike Goldman, an inspiration for many @csubiotech.bsky.social program faculty and students, attended his last Strategic Planning Council meeting yesterday at Kellogg West, Pomona. We will miss you Mike! #CalStateUniversity #Biotechnology

Just out: Prof. Jonathon Stillman’s new review in Journal of Experimental Biology from his Spring ‘24 BIOL865 course. It explores how heat waves affect intertidal organisms. Read: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... #MarineBio #HeatStress #TeachingToPublication

This was an incredible, international, tree-of-life spanning collaborative effort led by @roseamarks.bsky.social. I had fun and it was great model for how we can start to reach across disciplinary barriers and silos. @naturecomms.bsky.social #interdisciplinary

Life without water? A few organisms manage it. A new paper by Assistant Professor Jenna Ekwealor and co-authors in Nature Communications explores desiccation tolerance. Read more here! 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biology #desiccation #biotech #conservation

Join us at SFSU for a powerful panel featuring Women of Color in Science! April 10th, 2025 Lunch, panel, and student time — all are welcome! Let’s celebrate Black Excellence in STEM across the Bay Area. #SFSU #STEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM

Come explore the wonders of life with us! Visit the Department of #Biology stall at #Explore SF State Day and discover research, hands-on #opportunities, and what makes our community so special!

Congratulations to future @sfstatebio.bsky.social students attending #ExploreSFState today! Welcome to #SFSU!! Happy to highlight our microbiology labs, organismal bio labs, neuroscience labs, seawater core facility, human anatomy lab, and greenhouse!!

Welcome back to @sfstatebio.bsky.social alum Fred Santana (Burrus Lab) as today’s seminar speaker sharing progress on #TRIB2 in #melanoma from #JuraLab #UCSF-CVRI. Learning about #pseudokinases! Btw, there are 3 human #tribbles genes #LiveLongAndProsper @calstate.bsky.social

Thanks to the amazing generosity of our donors, we’ve surpassed our initial goal! We’d love to keep the momentum going, and every extra dollar we can raise goes directly to support more students, more research and more ways to transform lives. Please consider a gift to reach our next goal of $4000!

It’s #GatorsGiveDay! Your support helps us: 🔬provide #scholarship & #research opportunities, 🧫 hands-on #experiences, 🥼 build mentorship and community. Visit lnkd.in/gYdD3qSM; Gifts made on this special day may also help unlock any matching gifts or challenges so your support can go even further!

Tomorrow is Gators give day! Please consider donating anything if you can! The resources will help support our amazing university, which provides a rich education and research opportunities for all! 💜💛🐊 💰💸 #SFState @sfstatebio.bsky.social #Donate www.givecampus.com/w0qcds

Field season has begun, and students are being trained in field methods such as small mammal handling, lizard catching, and tick sampling. Funded by PacVec, a CDC-collaborative Center of Excellence, photos here show graduate students, Grace Oram, Gerardo Ramos, and Timara Veren in the field-Swei Lab

Dr. Robert Boria and his lab study the impacts of anthropogenic factors on the distribution of small mammal diversity. Here, the Boria lab visited the mammal collections at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and learned how to prepare skin specimens.

Hands-on phage hunting in action! Our @sfstatebio.bsky.social grad students and NSF Postbac RAMP Scholar are getting valuable training in phage isolation techniques with support from the @vivekmutalik.bsky.social Mutalik Lab. Grateful for this collaboration through the BRaVE Phage Foundry!

The Crook Lab studies cephalopods to understand how we can better treat octopuses when they need anesthesia, analgesia or other veterinary care. Postdoc Dr. Gabrielle Winters-Bostwick is using calcium imaging to observe individual neurons in the octopus arm responding to vibration and food odors

Phage-host interactions & AI driven predictions🚨 Join Dr Hemaa Selvakumar for an exciting seminar on Mar 20, 11 am PST| zoom: 286 560 6756 | passcode: 109186 #PhageFoundry @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

Please join us in congratulating Gen-PINC alum, Taylor Kan on her acceptance to the Microbiology PhD program at UC Davis!! From all the faculty and team members, we are very proud of you Taylor and we can't wait to see what you do next at UC Davis!! @sfstatebio.bsky.social

The PINC program is very proud to announce that @sfstatebio.bsky.social and @sfsupinc.bsky.social alum, Benjamin Lee, has been accepted to the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine PhD program at Stanford! Congratulations Ben for this well-deserved achievement!

Seminar this week! Dr Sean Jungbluth will talk about diving into blue innovation: computational biology and aquatic ecology at the cutting edge.

Students in the Health & Equity Research (HER) Lab are redefining biology research by combining molecular biology, data science, and community action. They analyze biospecimens to unravel the biological impact of lived experiences in marginalized communities and driving the fight for health equity.

www.phagepathways.com supported by the US Dept of Energy is super excited to welcome its first seminar series speaker - Dr Faith Dukes, Director of K-12, University and Faculty STEM education @berkeleylab.lbl.gov on Mar 21 @ 10am! Check out the flyer for more information. #phagepathways

Join us today at 2 pm for a seminar on the evolution, biogeography, and parallel elevational diversification of Sulawesi’s skinks by Dr Ben Karin, NSF Postdoc fellow @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Shucking our way to science! 🦪🔬 Undergraduate Kosi Acholonu is hard at work dissecting native Olympia oysters from Loch Lomond in SF Bay to uncover their hidden microbial secrets. What tales do these tiny ecosystems tell? Stay tuned! #OysterScience #LabLife @sfstatebio.bsky.social

Graduate student Michael Acholonu presenting at the 2025 Stanford Global Health Research Convening on our #antimicrobialresistance work in #wastewater! Read our preprint if you haven’t already: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @sfstatebio.bsky.social

New lab swag 😎

This International Women’s Day, we want to highlight the ‘Women Microbiologists in Academia: Challenges and Opportunities’ being organised by Champion, @enasnewire.bsky.social‬ at #Microbio25 on 2 April. Find out more: microb.io/3Fi5ByU #IWD2025

How to keep more women in research. Ahead of International Women’s Day, four female researchers (incl. @kimholzmann.bsky.social, @aislingbrady.bsky.social and @mbigoni.bsky.social) discuss the barriers and opportunities they have experienced. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Glad to be part of this great community @sfstatebio.bsky.social and stand up for science! Along w/ @sjsuathletics.bsky.social and other friends @ucsfpsych.bsky.social 😍

Thank you for an incredible seminar! Dr Catera Wilder

Undergraduate students Ashley Meinke, Katrina McCullough, NSF REU intern Frey Rogers conducting fieldwork on San Bruno Mountain, studying the effects of fog on cryptogams, including mosses and lichens. They are in Dr Jenna Ekwealor’s research group. Visit www.meep-lab.com to learn more!