I’m not crying; you’re crying…such a beautiful sight— @sfstatebio.bsky.social 2026 #graduates celebrate with their peers, their families and friends, biology staff and faculty-COMMUNITY!! #SFSU2026 @calstate.bsky.social #CONGRATULATIONS

🎊 New Preprint from phagefoundry.org ! Super excited to share our latest work on generating systematic phage-MDR P. aeruginosa interaction dataset & use of ML to predict phage susceptibility & phage cocktails from target genome sequences alone, w validations www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

New episode of the #MattersMicrobial podcast! Episode 130 is with Dr. Kevin Kohl of the Univ of Pittsburgh, and explores how the microbes within organisms can impact fitness and success: the complex and interesting holobiont concept. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/gH7q8C32JIQ?...

Have you registered for our Early Career Summer Conference? 👀 Join us 6–7 July at the University of Birmingham. EC Forum members get subsidised fees, don't miss out! Secure your spot: https://microb.io/ECConf26 #ECConf26 #Microbiology #EarlyCareer

Join the conversation at Scripps/UCSD tomorrow on navigating careers at PUIs - with @bielleogy.bsky.social, @kauzenne.bsky.social, Scott Kelley (SDSU), @cawatran.bsky.social, Dennis Kolosov (CSUSM) and me! scripps.ucsd.edu/community/de... Thursday, May 21, 2026, 2 - 4pm | Vaughan 100

Been a bit behind in our posts off late! So thrilled to host Dr Catherine Mageeney from the @sandialabs.bsky.social for a guest seminar in our gigantic general #microbiology class and for our #Phage #Pathways cohort earlier last week! 🙏 we loved learning about #mobilegeneticelements and #waxworms!

We are thrilled to welcome Dr Faith Dukes for our Phage Power Hour Speaker Series! Visit www.phagepathways.com for the zoom link. This program is funded by the Department of Energy, Office of Science. #phage #research

Super thrilled to be welcoming Dr Gabriele Ghiotto, postdoc at the @jgi.doe.gov for a seminar on “Single nucleotide variants drive evolutionary phage-host arms race" today! He develops novel tools and computational strategies to study the human virome. #virome #phage

Really happy to have played a small part in this cool piece of work led by @guido-valverde.bsky.social and @msabrysarhan.bsky.social. We characterised S. pyogenes in a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy (suggesting circulation before European contact) #VivaBolivianMummies www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nanoscale #robotic cleaner can hunt, capture and remove #bacteria ... | #nanorobots | #MicroSky | #microbes | #drones | By @uni-wuerzburg.de via @sciencex.bsky.social

Hands-down one of the best lectures I’ve attended in a while. Thank you, @bielleogy.bsky.social for being such an amazing researcher and student advocate!

Kicking off the 2026 Phage Pathways cohort with our first speaker: Oscar Luo, MBA, CLS, MLS(ASCP)CM, SBBCM. We’re excited to launch this year’s cohort and associated events with his expertise. April 10, 2026 | 10–11 AM. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. #PhagePathways www.phagepathways.com

The Silva Lab (PI: @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social) studies how glia regulate neurons during development and disease. Using genetic, cellular, and molecular tools in zebrafish, we’re uncovering key neuron-glial mechanisms. Support our work on #GatorsGiveDay! #Neuroscience #Zebrafish #Research

We reached 125% of our goal today! Thank you for making this happen! #GatorsGiveDay

Join us Monday, March 16 from 6-7 p.m. for a webinar featuring scientists from the NIH RECOVER Initiative discussing the latest insights into Long COVID and what they could mean for future diagnosis and treatment. Register: isbscience.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us Wed, Mar 11 at 11 AM at EOS + on Zoom for a seminar by Dr. Sophie George (University of Washington; Professor Emerita, Georgia Southern University): Marine Heatwaves effects on growth and development of Pisaster ochraceus larvae in multidimensional space #MarineBiology #MarineHeatwaves

Join us for a Biology Seminar with Adrianne Correa, PhD (UC Berkeley): Weaving Community-Science Partnerships to Understand and Bolster Reef Health in a Changing Ocean 📅 Thurs, March 12, 2026 ⏰ 2:00–3:00 PM 📍 SEC 116

🦠 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝘀 — 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄?” Historian @kirchhelle.bsky.social chats with 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 & 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝗯𝗱𝗲𝗻 about revival of phage biology & phage therapy as antibiotics fail. 🎧 2024 BBC Radio 4 — listen worldwide: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #phage #phagesky #microsky

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate not only the women who are recognised, but also those whose achievements were overlooked. Their contributions still shape the world we live in today. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #WomenInScience #RosalindFranklin #STEM #WomenInSTEM #ukisotope #Science

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply to Methods in Computational Neuroscience by March 16. This four-week course is designed for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in a variety of fields. Financial aid is available. 🔗More info here: go.mbl.edu/MCN

Is #COVID a thing of the past? ... | #flu | #virus | #SARSCoV2 | #coronavirus | #pathogen | #publichealth | Via @the-independent.com

➡️ preprint from the lab! Bacteria have loads of antiviral defences in their mobile genetic elements (MGEs). So when MGEs move between bacteria, the defences move with them, generating a fast turnover of defences in bacteria. But what about the antiviral defence turnover in the MGEs themselves? 🤔 🧵👇

📣new preprint from the phagefoundry.org team 🎉 Jessica Trinh and Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Laboratories)!! Systematic analysis of prophages from ~1000 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, induction & screening. We found this 😎 looking phage with bunch of 💍💍

📣 New preprint from us at phagefoundry.org 📣 A solid machine learning framework & to predict strain-level phage-host interactions across diverse bacterial genera from genome sequences alone. Avery Noonan from the Arkin Lab led this massive effort www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Welcome Dr. Lu Wang to the Anand Lab @SFSU! 🧫🌊 bringing expertise in #microbial #ecology, mobile genetic elements, and #metagenomics/AMR—plus an impressive #science-#policy journey through @noaa.gov and EPA. We’re so happy you’re here, Lu! #MicrobialEcology #AMR #Metagenomics #SFSU

Join us Feb. 27 for more on our joint Critical Minerals & Materials call with @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov — for projects that integrate genomics w/nanoscale science to develop bio-based technologies. 🖥️🧬 Details: https://jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us/proposals/jgi-tmf-critical-minerals-and-materials-call

🌿🚣‍♂️ Rosenberg Institute Seminar Series — Wed, Feb 18 (11:00am) Stuart Siegel, PhD, SPWS: Two Birds, One Ecosystem – Bringing Nature-Based Solutions to the SF Estuary Sea level rise, restoration, and what it takes to scale solutions across the Bay. #NatureBasedSolutions #SanFranciscoBay

A different kind of #Valentine's Day flower…🚨 #Corpse flower is opening in our SF State #greenhouse! 🌺👃 Our Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) aka the “corpse flower” is in #bloom mode: it typically peaks for ~24–48 hours. The greenhouse is open today noon–8pm for anyone who wants to catch it!

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

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!

Meet our new lab workhorse: a Thermo Scientific KingFisher for automated nucleic-acid extractions. Faster, cleaner DNA/RNA from wastewater, wetlands & phage isolates = more discovery time. DOE-supported Phage Pathways! #PhagePathways #Viromics #Microbiology #AMR @sfstatebio.bsky.social

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

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

Proud of our grad students who showcased their amazing research this week at our mini student showcase! Excited for the future of science! Michael Hajkowski, Sanjiev Nand, Kyle Roe, LuzMaria Soto and Gabriela Franco.

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.

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

Thank you for an incredible seminar! Dr Catera Wilder

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎