To both of the lovely people who follow me: Happy to announce that I’ve been promoted to Full Professor! Very cool to not be an “Ass.” anymore.

Updated lab group photo, Spring 2025 edition. Very proud of this team and everything they have accomplished this semester! We took this group shot on Friday, right after one of the best lab meetings ever.

Congratulations to our own Naya Mahabir representing the Izquierdo Lab @hofstrau.bsky.social and winning the Johnson Award for Best Poster at the TriBeta Biology Honors NE-1 Convention this weekend! Wow! Very proud of you, Naya!

Once again, the brave students of my General Microbiology #BIOL134 course @hofstrau.bsky.social ventured into the glove bag this week to learn a little about anaerobic microbiology. Good work, everyone!

Congratulations to our lab’s Naya Mahabir for getting her research in our lab featured in the latest issue of @hofstrau.bsky.social Horizons for Undergraduate and Graduate Research! #hofstrabiology

🔬TT Faculty Position in Microbiology at Hofstra University 🧫. Come join our Biology Department and get the opportunity to work with fantastic students in a supportive environment for teaching and research. Deadline is March 3. Please share or apply here: hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/5041

One post for some of the amazing invertebrates we got to see in Belize in #BIOL139 including sea anemones, christmas tree worms, brittle sea stars and slate pencil urchins #hofstrainbelize2025

One post for the dedicated and curious Hofstra Biology students who participated in our #BIOL139 course documenting the vast diversity of vertebrates and invertebrates in these coral reef ecosystems. #hofstrainbelize2025

A juvenile lionfish (Pterois volitans), a first for me in #BIOL139 in Belize. Still venomous and dangerous. We also had the opportunity to see an adult being eaten by a moray eel. The circle of life. #hofstrainbelize2025

Our time teaching #BIOL139 in Belize has come to an end. But here’s one of my favorite invertebrates in this place. I’ve gotten better at taking pictures of these guys in turbulent waters, but this one is my favorite. This is the flamingo tongue snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) on a sea fan coral.

Back to the water today for #hofstrainbelize2025, as we visit Hol Chan and Shark Ray Alley, where we saw this beautiful bridled burrfish, as well as Christmas tree worms, sleeping sharks and a spotted scorpionfish, among so many others. Follow us on @hofstrainbelize on instagram to see more!

#BIOL139 took a break from swimming through coral reefs to visit the Mayan ruins of Altun Ha and learn more about the history of this amazing place. #hofstrainbelize2025

Greetings from Belize, where my friend Dr. Jason Williams and I are teaching BIOL139! Follow our adventures on Instagram at @hofstrainbelize. I’ll also be posting some of my favorite pictures here!

Congratulations to our lab’s Gigi McAlpin and all the Hofstra Biology graduates who we celebrated today! Go out there and make us proud making this world a better place, Hofstra pride!

#PrideofLI #HofGrad 🦁

Congratulations to our lab members Gigi, Daniel and Ashley for presenting their work during Undergraduate Research Day at Hofstra and doing a phenomenal job! 👏👏👏 #hofstrabiology

Congratulations to our lab’s Naya Mahabir for being awarded a Research Grant from the TriBeta Biological Honor Society for her work on plant-microbe interactions in my lab! 👏🥳🎉 #HofstraBiology