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/ ☀️⬇️🌎

New lab swag 😎

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

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!

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

We are thrilled to be here! We study microbes and their interactions in environmental reservoirs such as waste streams, soil and biofilm. Majority of our students are urm and/or first gen! Pl give us a follow! PI: [email protected]