Huge congrats to Colin for completing his masters talk! His project investigated how sepsis and meningitis affects circadian rhythms. To do this, he leveraged zebrafish genetics and had to generate some new tools that have never been attempted before - a true pioneer!! Congrats Colin!!!

Huge congratulations to Jaden Knight, MS who gave an awesome graduation talk! Jaden bravely lead our lab into the world of chemistry and made huge strides towards uncovering the identity of a novel molecule that modulates the circadian clock. Cheers!!!

Very proud of the support shown at UCSC today!! We will all #StandUpForScience because #ScienceIsForEveryone!!!

Happy Valentine’s Day from 5 kick ass microbiologists - who all made it to this week’s zoom meeting for the first time in ages! #women #STEM #faculty #science @katypatras.bsky.social @laurainthelab1.bsky.social @lindseyatutk.bsky.social @alisoncoady.bsky.social

Huge shout out to Jaden who absolutely CRUSHED his MS QE today! His project aims to identify a novel zeitgeber from bacterial cells and is no small task, but we have no doubt Jaden has what it takes to figure it out!!! #srbr #AcademicChatter #gradschool #microbiology #ucsc

Sending a huge thanks to @samanthabell.bsky.social for helping me with the most PERFECT secret santa present ever!!! (I was so relieved when I found the files on your website- thank you!!) Catherine loved it!

Guess who bacterial pathogen edition!!!

Having such an incredible time at Cold Spring Harbor Microbial Pathogenesis meeting!! Catherine did an incredible job on her poster, it was crowded all night!! @katypatras.bsky.social