Graduation festivities today at Seattle Pacific University. Super proud of my senior undergraduate research students who are graduating tomorrow. Will miss them bunches! #professorlife

End of year lab celebration with my amazing undergraduate lab students 🎉. Will dearly miss my two graduating senior students 🥹. I gifted them a microbe mug to remember the time in the lab 😃. #professorlife #Delgadolab #undergraduateresearch 🧪

Off to present my lab’s research at the prestigious “Viruses and Cells” Gordan conference in Barcelona, Spain. Thanks to all my undergraduate research students at Seattle Pacific University who helped generate the data I am presenting. They are amazing! 🎉 #professorlife 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

Honored to have been selected as this year’s FACULTY SCHOLAR OF THE YEAR at Seattle Pacific University 🎉. I would like to thank the Delgado lab undergraduate research students & my research collaborators for their contributions/help. More info about my lab at traciedelgadolab.com 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

My lab’s RNA-seq samples are in! Thanks to my collaborator Dr @escobarthelma.bsky.social at UW and @uwiscrm.bsky.social for their help! Now we wait for data 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Two Latina PIs (#SeattlePacificUniversity & @uwiscrm.bsky.social) back at the bench for a special collaboration, prepping Illumina libraries for RNA-seq. Dr. Thelma Escobar (@escobarthelma.bsky.social) & I went to college together. Thankful for her help in this project. #ProfessorLife 🧪

Learned a new technique today at the Escobar lab @uwmedicine.bsky.social. RNA quality ✅ was great after tape station analysis. Next week is cDNA library prep before RNA-seq. #professorlife #latina #scientist👩🏻‍🔬 🧪

Congrats to Delgado lab researcher Ben Sheirbon for winning the #AAASmtg FIRST PLACE 🥇 undergraduate e-poster prize for his research presentation in the “Developmental Bio, Genetics, & Immunology” section @aaas.org. His name will be in @science.org! I am a #proudPI #science 🧪

Was a honor to speak at the @wsupullman.bsky.social SACNAS chapter meeting today about my academic journey. I also had the pleasure to meet Jimena, the current WSU SACNAS chapter president. #professorlife #representationmatters

Looking forward to my visit at Washington State University the next few days. Thank you @philmixter.bsky.social for the kind invitation! I’ll be speaking at the WSU SACNAS chapter meeting today and then giving a research seminar tomorrow at the School of Molecular Biosciences. 👩🏻‍🔬

In light of policies to defund biomedical research, and with judicial hearings happening today, we hope to highlight the many ways biomedical research improves people's lives, and to convey how damaging the proposed cuts would be... not just for us researchers, but for everyone.

Super proud of my undergraduate research student who presented at the @aaas.org national scientific meeting. The Delgado lab is currently identifying FDA approved metabolic drugs that can be repurposed as antivirals. #AAASmtg #Delgadolab 🧪

Celebrating my three fabulous undergraduate research students on “International Day of Women and Girls in Science”. It’s been a honor to have them in my research lab and support them as they discover new antiviral therapies! #womeninscience #11Feb 🧪

While I hope this gets overturned, if it does remain a 15% indirect cost rate, universities will need to revise their tenure and promotion requirements. Young faculty will not be able to achieve tenure and produce as many publications under this new structure. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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"Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard indirect rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs in lieu of a separately negotiated rate for indirect costs in every grant." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

It’s the next generation of cancer research. If a specific cancer runs in your family (genetics), you can get a vaccine against that kind of cancer. Essentially, it provides your immune system a “mug shot” of the cancer type & allows your body to kill the cancer if it does arise in the future. 🧪

It’s the next generation of cancer research. If a specific cancer runs in your family (genetics), you can get a vaccine against that kind of cancer. Essentially, it provides your immune system a “mug shot” of the cancer type & allows your body to kill the cancer if it does arise in the future. 🧪

Abstract submitted! Hoping to share cool antiviral research generated by amazing undergrads in my lab. Who else submitted an abstract and what do you study?! 🧪 #professorlife #virologist

Today, I reached the point in academia where a peer reviewer stated that there was a gap in my knowledge before going on to say that to rectify it I would need to read….. one of my articles. A milestone.

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Welp! NIH diversity supplement grants now have newly updated expiration dates dates of January 2025 revised from May 2026. 🤷‍♀️ grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Life of a virology professor. It is always fascinating to see the physiological changes in cells after they are virus infected. My lab is 1) identifying how gammaherpesviruses (which cause cancer) change host cell metabolism and 2) identifying anti-metabolism drugs that can be used as antivirals. 🧪

It’s up to us to continue to advocate for DEI in STEM. Promote inclusive hiring, amplify diverse voices, invite diverse speakers to give research seminars / keynote talks at conferences, & inclusively mentor underrepresented groups. Diversity in STEM is essential! 🧪 www.bbc.com/news/article...

This NIH freeze is wild. What a nightmare!!! 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

The future of innovation depends on inclusion of all voices. Diverse perspectives in science spark groundbreaking ideas and drive progress for everyone. Let’s open doors and break barriers in STEM in #2025 🧪#NewYear #DiversityInSTEM #EquityMatters #DEI

It’s that time of year where the super contagious Norovirus is circulating and makes stuff come out both ends. It takes on average 36 hours between exposure to symtoms and usually you are sick 1-2 days. Here is my advice 🧪…👇👇👇 (1/n)

It’s fun to have more time to perform experiments in my lab during my sabbatical.  I come into the lab a couple times a week, and then I just relax when I am home. No lectures to prep, no classes to teach, and no late night grading. A very nice break! 🧪 #professorlife

Considering coming to the 2025 ASV meeting in Montréal, Canada? Check out the Visa requirements and make sure you have everything you need to join us for a great week of virology! ircc.canada.ca/english/visi...

My heart and prayers go out to all those affected by the California wildfires. It’s unbelievable and horrific. I grew up in SoCal and it’s very sad to see this. I am relieved that my family and friends are safe, and I praying everyone else is able to find safety. www.cnn.com/weather/live...

I am officially on sabbatical though March 2025. No teaching or university service. Looking forward to the time to rest and focus just on my scholarship. I am currently working on identifying clinically relevant anti-metabolism drugs that can be repurposed as antivirals. #professorlife

The @plos.org editors picks: 2024 highlights - featured our salmon fraud in Seattle study! Very honored to be one of the 12 articles they chose to highlight. everyone.plos.org/2024/12/20/e...

I have NEWS to share! A research study I lead uncovering #salmonfraud rates in Seattle WA was recently published in @plos.org. Many thanks to the 50 @SeattlePacific undergrad researchers & bio faculty collaborators for their help to complete this project. (1/n) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...