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First lab meeting of the school year. Going over the basics of Drosophila genetics. @sfstatebio.bsky.social #drosophila
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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
#PlantScience #CaliforniaPoppy
September 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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
#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!
September 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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!
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☀️🔥 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
September 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
☀️🔥 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
#Fieldwork #Ecology #BoriaLab
September 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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
#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
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
August 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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
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
#LymeDisease #DiseaseEcology #ClimateChange #VectorBiology #SFSU
August 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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
#LymeDisease #DiseaseEcology #ClimateChange #VectorBiology #SFSU
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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
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
August 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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
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
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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
@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
July 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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
@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
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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
May 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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
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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
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
May 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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
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
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
May 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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
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
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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 🔬🧫🥼👩🏻🔬
May 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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 🔬🧫🥼👩🏻🔬
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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
May 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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
May 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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
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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
April 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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
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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
Apr 18, 10AM PT. Scan QR code to join! #SyntheticBiology #Microbiome #DOE #PhagePathways
April 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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
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
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
April 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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
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
Topic: Leveraging early life microbiomes to treat disease.
12:30PM: Student lunch (HH 520)
2PM: Seminar (SEC 116)
#Microbiomes #Asthma #ScienceTalk #SFSUBiology
April 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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
Topic: Leveraging early life microbiomes to treat disease.
12:30PM: Student lunch (HH 520)
2PM: Seminar (SEC 116)
#Microbiomes #Asthma #ScienceTalk #SFSUBiology
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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!
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April 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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!
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@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
April 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
@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
Read: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
#MarineBio #HeatStress #TeachingToPublication
April 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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
Read: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
#MarineBio #HeatStress #TeachingToPublication
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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
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
April 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
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
April 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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
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
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
April 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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
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