Priscilla San Juan
@priscillascope.bsky.social
Postdoc @nhmla.bsky.social Research & Collections | Mammalogy | animal hosts, their microbes & parasites 🦠🧫🔬🧪🥼🐀🐿️🐝🦜
I’m so glad to share this publication. As part of Steve Rowe’s masters, this work experimentally exposes “natal” soil to captive Ōkārito kiwi in order to understand how chicks acquire their gut microbes. Honored to be a co-author of this work! animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Natal soil consumption shifts gut microbiome in captive Ōkārito kiwi (Apteryx rowi) - Animal Microbiome
Background Captive-rearing programmes for endangered birds, such as those in place for kiwi conservation in Aotearoa-New Zealand, can unintentionally deprive the birds access to a microbially-diverse ...
animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I’m so glad to share this publication. As part of Steve Rowe’s masters, this work experimentally exposes “natal” soil to captive Ōkārito kiwi in order to understand how chicks acquire their gut microbes. Honored to be a co-author of this work! animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Reposted by Priscilla San Juan
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
nyti.ms
April 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
Happy 😊 🧪👩🏽💻 to share our (@kaycebell.bsky.social, Lance Durden, Julie Allen, Anna Phillips) publication on louse systematics! doi.org/10.1645/24-135
Genomics and Morphology Resolve Chipmunk Sucking Louse Systematics (Genus Hoplopleura)
Sucking lice are obligate parasites of eutherian mammals and are generally considered to be host-specific parasites. Molecular investigations have found that some current louse taxonomy is incorrect a...
doi.org
March 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Happy 😊 🧪👩🏽💻 to share our (@kaycebell.bsky.social, Lance Durden, Julie Allen, Anna Phillips) publication on louse systematics! doi.org/10.1645/24-135
Excited that our (@kaycebell.bsky.social and Liz Palma) paper on nested microbiomes is out! Here we compared chipmunk gut microbiomes with the gut microbes of their parasitic pinworms! 🧪🧬🦠🔬 doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
Pinworm microbiomes are distinct from their chipmunk host gut microbiota
Our study investigates the gut microbiomes of the Crater Yellow-pine Chipmunk and its endoparasitic pinworm. By identifying bacterial species that inhabit
doi.org
February 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Excited that our (@kaycebell.bsky.social and Liz Palma) paper on nested microbiomes is out! Here we compared chipmunk gut microbiomes with the gut microbes of their parasitic pinworms! 🧪🧬🦠🔬 doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
Thank you! Excited to finally join BlueSky to learn about everyone’s science and share our cool research 🙂
Welcome @priscillascope.bsky.social to BlueSky! She is a postdoc working with me and @jeclight.bsky.social (and others!) on this louse project. In fact, she is doing *a lot* of the work
A few weeks ago we combed Field Museum study skins for lice. I was very excited to find this (likely) Haemodipsus species from an Indian hare (Lepus nigricollis) collected in 1954. Museum record: www.gbif.org/occurrence/6...
We will sequence the genome of this valuable specimen!
We will sequence the genome of this valuable specimen!
January 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Thank you! Excited to finally join BlueSky to learn about everyone’s science and share our cool research 🙂