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Department of Biology | San Francisco State University
@sfstatebio.bsky.social
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Sharing research, creative activities and scholarship of students and faculty from the department of biology at San Francisco State University. This is our Official Account.

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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
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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
September 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
sfstatebio.bsky.social
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
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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
September 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
sfstatebio.bsky.social
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
August 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
sfstatebio.bsky.social
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
August 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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evodevopanam.bsky.social
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
July 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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theanandlab.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
May 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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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
May 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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nicholasjsilva.bsky.social
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
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sgpombe.bsky.social
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
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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
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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
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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
April 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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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
April 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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sfsupinc.bsky.social
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
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csubiotech.bsky.social
@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
CSU Biotech members
April 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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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
April 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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bryophyter.bsky.social
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
sfstatebio.bsky.social Department of Biology | San Francisco State University @sfstatebio.bsky.social · Apr 12
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
April 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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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
April 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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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 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM