Sarah Pasqualetti
@spasqualetti.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in the Milligan-McClellan Lab at UConn studying microbes, plastics, and threespine stickleback. Owner of two little cats 🐱
Thank you for the shoutout! So excited to finally share this work with the science community!
I am so proud of @spasqualetti.bsky.social and this BioRxiv paper! I have to prep for class, but later today I'll highlight some of her findings about a stickleback gut isolate that can degrade plastic and other microbes that inhibit it's ability. 🦠🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cold-water gut isolate from threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) reveals polypropylene surface oxidation and co-culture inhibition
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polypropylene (PP), two of the most widely produced plastics in the United States, persist in cold-water environments where plastic-degrading microbes have been po...
www.biorxiv.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Thank you for the shoutout! So excited to finally share this work with the science community!
Good morning #ASMicrobe! Please feel free stop by my rapid fire talk at the AES Track Hub on Friday, 6/20 from 11:45a-12:30p and my poster AES-SATURDAY-791 on Saturday, 6/21, I'd love to chat about potential plastic degrading microbes and stickleback 👀
June 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Good morning #ASMicrobe! Please feel free stop by my rapid fire talk at the AES Track Hub on Friday, 6/20 from 11:45a-12:30p and my poster AES-SATURDAY-791 on Saturday, 6/21, I'd love to chat about potential plastic degrading microbes and stickleback 👀
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Oh my gosh, PhD candidates Carol Vieira da Silva & @spasqualetti.bsky.social won 1 & 2 place, respectfully, in the UConn Graduate Student Research Symposium! They also won 1st place for their respective categories of Cognition, Heath, and Medicine (Carol) & Economy, Energy and Environment (Sarah) 🎉🎉
April 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Oh my gosh, PhD candidates Carol Vieira da Silva & @spasqualetti.bsky.social won 1 & 2 place, respectfully, in the UConn Graduate Student Research Symposium! They also won 1st place for their respective categories of Cognition, Heath, and Medicine (Carol) & Economy, Energy and Environment (Sarah) 🎉🎉
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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The Stickleback Stock Center, with Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan @napaaqtuk.bsky.social, is working to plan a Gnotobiotic Workshop! Please fill out our form if you have any interest in germ-free stickleback and the many ways to manipulate them. Please share. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Gnotobiotic Workshop Interest form
Are you interested taking in a workshop on how to use a gnotobiotic protocol to make "germ free" threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)? If so, let us know!
This workshop would include:
Th...
docs.google.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:06 PM
The Stickleback Stock Center, with Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan @napaaqtuk.bsky.social, is working to plan a Gnotobiotic Workshop! Please fill out our form if you have any interest in germ-free stickleback and the many ways to manipulate them. Please share. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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For the people who have asked how they can help people in Kotzebue recover from the storm:
The Native Village of Kotzebue said that they are taking contributions through the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation. healthyalaskanatives.org/kotzebue-flo...
The Native Village of Kotzebue said that they are taking contributions through the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation. healthyalaskanatives.org/kotzebue-flo...
October 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM
For the people who have asked how they can help people in Kotzebue recover from the storm:
The Native Village of Kotzebue said that they are taking contributions through the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation. healthyalaskanatives.org/kotzebue-flo...
The Native Village of Kotzebue said that they are taking contributions through the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation. healthyalaskanatives.org/kotzebue-flo...
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Hello my #marinescience friends on the East Coast! Do you work with oysters? Do you collect and eat your own oysters? Would you like to get your oysters tested for Hg for free? If so, DM me!! I’m working on a massive project and need all the love and help I can get! Please repost!!
September 13, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Hello my #marinescience friends on the East Coast! Do you work with oysters? Do you collect and eat your own oysters? Would you like to get your oysters tested for Hg for free? If so, DM me!! I’m working on a massive project and need all the love and help I can get! Please repost!!
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My student @spasqualetti.bsky.social gave an excellent talk (I'm a little biased) about identifying microbes from stickleback that are able to degrade plastics. She also found that microbes in community have enhanced ability to break down plastics. Proud PI status
July 22, 2024 at 2:55 PM
My student @spasqualetti.bsky.social gave an excellent talk (I'm a little biased) about identifying microbes from stickleback that are able to degrade plastics. She also found that microbes in community have enhanced ability to break down plastics. Proud PI status
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@spasqualetti.bsky.social and @sticklestock.bsky.social manager Holly are leaving today, so we hiked part of Powerline. They are able to leave early this year because we were able to get all our fish in record time. I'll stick around Anchorage for meetings, then head home. Beautiful day for a hike!
June 19, 2024 at 1:44 AM
@spasqualetti.bsky.social and @sticklestock.bsky.social manager Holly are leaving today, so we hiked part of Powerline. They are able to leave early this year because we were able to get all our fish in record time. I'll stick around Anchorage for meetings, then head home. Beautiful day for a hike!
Thank you!!
I had 2 awesome things happen today:
1. PhD student @spasqualetti.bsky.social became a PhD candidate, as she passed her 3rd year exam! She was excellent in her oral presentation, written portion, and q&a with the committee. I definitely did a happy dance!
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1. PhD student @spasqualetti.bsky.social became a PhD candidate, as she passed her 3rd year exam! She was excellent in her oral presentation, written portion, and q&a with the committee. I definitely did a happy dance!
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May 3, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Thank you!!
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2 PhD students and an undergrad were awarded summer fellowships! I'm so proud of them! Congratulations @spasqualetti.bsky.social, Caroline Vieira Da Silva, and Jolie Atwood!
March 26, 2024 at 9:19 PM
2 PhD students and an undergrad were awarded summer fellowships! I'm so proud of them! Congratulations @spasqualetti.bsky.social, Caroline Vieira Da Silva, and Jolie Atwood!
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Are you ready to order fish from the Stickleback Stock Center? Head over to our website and check it out!
www.sticklestock.com/news/were-op...
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www.sticklestock.com/news/were-op...
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February 19, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Are you ready to order fish from the Stickleback Stock Center? Head over to our website and check it out!
www.sticklestock.com/news/were-op...
www.sticklestock.com/store-1
www.sticklestock.com/news/were-op...
www.sticklestock.com/store-1