I don't generally post about my own work, but if you are looking for a last minute present for the holidays for someone who might be interested in the ocean, my book seems to appeal not only to adults but also to even really little kids. All royalties go to the Smithsonian.

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

Still buzzing from Evergreen: head-to-head of wastewater phage detection methods. Curious what your lab sees. #Phage #Metagenomics #Cultivation #phagesky #microsky @sfstatebio.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

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

Want to learn more about careers in engagement and knowledge exchange? The next instalment of the @earthsciencewomen.bsky.social Careers Beyond Academia series is going to be focused on these types of roles! 🙂 Open to all 🗓️ October 23 2025 ⏰ 1600 UTC Register: forms.gle/tq7pPp6s8n15... (1/2)

So excited to host my high school friend, now collaborator @arunsethuraman.bsky.social for a guest seminar in our DOE supported Phage Pathways event! Tune in to his talk here if you have a moment to learn about #hops #population #genetics #beerscience teams.microsoft.com/meet/2109667...

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

Celebrating our grad student, Jeff’s successful defense this week and a paper acceptance! Read more: academic.oup.com/sumbio/artic... #oyster #restoration #microbiome @sfstatebio.bsky.social

Global-scale characterization of antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants with inter-continental and inter-country comparisons of the resistomes in these systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our lab's latest work led by PhD student @maggielangwig.bsky.social describing the ecology and evolution of viruses in globally distributed hydrothermal vents. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

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

Awesome Women of Color in Science Panel hosted by Black Excellence in #STEM @ #SFSU for today’s seminar! Who pivoted to stem cell research after 12 years in STEM education? Who was excited about forensics after a high school experience? Who was 16 yrs old viewing hanta virus in a microbiology lab?..

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!!

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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...

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

Beautiful clear and stained fish prepared by Undergraduate Angel Resendiz to measure variation in skeletal features. Prof Karen Crow and her lab study the evolution and ecology of fishes and use several tools including molecular approaches. To learn more, visit biology.sfsu.edu

The March '25 issue is online! Cover image showing the soil microbial carbon pump. Articles inside on overcoming adverse drug effects on the microbiome, fungal engineering technologies, alphavirus capsid–host interactions, bacterial peptidoglycan recycling, & more! www.cell.com/issue/S0966-...

Hello everyone, the STAMPS course on microbiome data analysis at @mblscience.bsky.social is open until Mar 11, 2025! Join us for a great experience! Please ALSO check out my co-Director @amydwillis.bsky.social excellent post on how to write a great application: statdivlab.github.io/blog/article...

Wow Just Wow youtu.be/G8ECt04qPos?...

🚨Postdoc position(s) alert🚨 If you like to develop new bioinformatic tools for *human* microbiome analysis, are interested by virus/phages, we (JGI Viral Genomics and Microbiome Data groups) may have a great position for you ! No official job posting yet, but email or DM if you are interested !

#phagesky Some partnerships are always fun!! Excited to share one such 🎉 product w Simon Roux, perspectives on our favorite “atypical” phages, for special issue to celebrate my former mentor Carol Gross @ UCSF Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2 more open faculty positions (1 TT Asst., 1 TT Assoc./Full) - in Border Studies @sandiegostate.bsky.social, potentially in biology - e.g. cross-border land, resource management, binational biodiversity, transborder ecologies, built environments, sustainable ag, etc.! Links below. Please share!

🧪 Deadline is 10 January 2025 to apply for a funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop 'Why Are Cells the Size They Are?' organised by Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social and Craig White. Find out more and apply at bit.ly/4gVDROh #BiologistsWorkshops #ECR

Hiring a postdoc! For #NSF project on oyster metapopulations and restoration, led by Max Castorani at UVa. Two year position based at UVa, OSU, or remote. Ideal for PhDs in quant ecology or oceanography. Apply by March 1. Message me with questions! jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

We are seeking a program manager/postdoctoral research fellow to join us. The postdoc will be based at San Francisco State University and serve as a liaison between investigators at @sdsuresearch.bsky.social, @ucdavis.bsky.social, SFSU, national labs @sandialabs.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov 1/3

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

Spatial multi-omics has just gone to the next level! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... —Integration of 5 omic modalities w/ spatial resolution at 20 -50 μm —"a new era for characterizing tissue & cellular heterogeneity that single-modality studies alone could not reveal"

Sharing a piece that I wrote that’s very close to my heart and is now published in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social. It’s a quick read on pathway programs for increasing inclusion and persistence in microbiology! doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

#phagesky #microsky

Giving this starter pack a go! To unite over #oyster #reef science and #livingshorelines, microbiological agents in these communities here it is: go.bsky.app/GjU9Mzd Please reach out if you want to be added

Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics (MGM) Workshop Learn all about IMG/M and other @jgi.doe.gov data systems for #microbiology #metagenomics #microbiome #bioinformatics #comparativegenomics at our 5-day workshop April 28-May 2, 2025 in Berkeley Registration is now open: mgm.jgi.doe.gov

Whoo! What happens when you serendipitously reconnect with your high school buddy after 21 years, decide to write a grant together, and get funded! Congratulations to us, @archanand.bsky.social!

I’m thrilled to share that our team has been recommended for the DOE RENEW awards! 🎉 Our #Phage #Pathways program aims to cultivate a new generation of scientists at the intersection of microbial ecology and renewable energy!

Unlocking nature’s secrets: extracting #phages from #oysters for a deeper dive into microbial mysteries! 🦠🌊 #NSF #RAMP

Mapping river microbiomes across the U.S.: GROWdb spans 90% of U.S. watersheds, uncovering the microbial communities driving nutrient cycles & breaking down pollutants. Achieved through a major crowdsourcing effort involving >100 sampling teams. Paper (OA): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ArchaeaSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...