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Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD
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HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow at Stanford University in KC Huang's Lab | PhD @ MIT Biology in Grossman Lab | Exploring mechanisms driving horizontal gene transfer in the human gut microbiome | 🏳️‍🌈🍸🥘⛺
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October 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Next Generation Faculty Symposium

SESSION 3: Immunology and Cell-Cell Interactions

More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (sariam@stanford.edu); Juan Inclan Rico, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (jmirico.k16@gmail.com); Christian Dzuvor, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University (christian_dzuvor@hsph.harvard.edu)
September 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Honored to be selected to speak at this symposium. Please tune in on Sept. 10th if you’re interested in hearing what I’ve learned while mapping HGT in the gut microbiome!

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September 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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JB Editor's Choice: McKeithen-Mead, Grossman et al. explore the mechanism whereby ICEBs1, an integrative and conjugative element (ICE) of B. subtilis, inhibits the host SOS response and RecA function.
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February 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Interested in the influence of the infant microbiome on health? Quickly interrogating non-model organisms using omic approaches?

A new publication, describing genome-scale resources in bifidobacteria, is now available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Silhouettes of infant, mouse, chick, and bacteria.
March 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I'm excited to share that my third first-author publication from grad school has been published in JBAC:
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Activation and modulation of the host response to DNA damage by an integrative and conjugative element | Journal of Bacteriology
Bacterial genomes typically contain mobile genetic elements, including bacteriophages (viruses) and integrative and conjugative elements, that affect host physiology. ICEs can excise from the chromoso...
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January 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM