We are thrilled to welcome Dr Faith Dukes for our Phage Power Hour Speaker Series! Visit www.phagepathways.com for the zoom link. This program is funded by the Department of Energy, Office of Science. #phage #research
Super thrilled to be welcoming Dr Gabriele Ghiotto, postdoc at the @jgi.doe.gov for a seminar on โSingle nucleotide variants drive evolutionary phage-host arms race" today! He develops novel tools and computational strategies to study the human virome.ย #virome #phage
Really happy to have played a small part in this cool piece of work led by @guido-valverde.bsky.social and @msabrysarhan.bsky.social. We characterised S. pyogenes in a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy (suggesting circulation before European contact) #VivaBolivianMummies
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nanoscale #robotic cleaner can hunt, capture and remove #bacteria ...
| #nanorobots | #MicroSky | #microbes | #drones | By @uni-wuerzburg.de via @sciencex.bsky.social
Hands-down one of the best lectures Iโve attended in a while. Thank you, @bielleogy.bsky.social for being such an amazing researcher and student advocate!
Kicking off the 2026 Phage Pathways cohort with our first speaker: Oscar Luo, MBA, CLS, MLS(ASCP)CM, SBBCM. Weโre excited to launch this yearโs cohort and associated events with his expertise. April 10, 2026 | 10โ11 AM. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. #PhagePathways www.phagepathways.com
The Silva Lab (PI: @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social) studies how glia regulate neurons during development and disease. Using genetic, cellular, and molecular tools in zebrafish, weโre uncovering key neuron-glial mechanisms. Support our work on #GatorsGiveDay! #Neuroscience #Zebrafish #Research
We reached 125% of our goal today! Thank you for making this happen! #GatorsGiveDay
Join us Monday, March 16 from 6-7 p.m. for a webinar featuring scientists from the NIH RECOVER Initiative discussing the latest insights into Long COVID and what they could mean for future diagnosis and treatment. Register:
isbscience.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us Wed, Mar 11 at 11 AM at EOS + on Zoom for a seminar by Dr. Sophie George (University of Washington; Professor Emerita, Georgia Southern University):
Marine Heatwaves effects on growth and development of Pisaster ochraceus larvae in multidimensional space
#MarineBiology #MarineHeatwaves
Join us for a Biology Seminar with Adrianne Correa, PhD (UC Berkeley):
Weaving Community-Science Partnerships to Understand and Bolster Reef Health in a Changing Ocean
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Thurs, March 12, 2026
โฐ 2:00โ3:00 PM
๐ SEC 116
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Historian @kirchhelle.bsky.social chats with ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ฎ ๐๐น๐ผ๐ธ๐ถ๐ฒ & ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป about revival of phage biology & phage therapy as antibiotics fail.
๐ง 2024 BBC Radio 4 โ listen worldwide:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#phage #phagesky #microsky
On International Womenโs Day, we celebrate not only the women who are recognised, but also those whose achievements were overlooked. Their contributions still shape the world we live in today.
#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #WomenInScience #RosalindFranklin #STEM #WomenInSTEM #ukisotope #Science
DEADLINE APPROACHING!
Apply to Methods in Computational Neuroscience by March 16. This four-week course is designed for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in a variety of fields.
Financial aid is available.
๐More info here: go.mbl.edu/MCN
Is #COVID a thing of the past? ...
| #flu | #virus | #SARSCoV2 | #coronavirus | #pathogen | #publichealth | Via @the-independent.com
โก๏ธ preprint from the lab! Bacteria have loads of antiviral defences in their mobile genetic elements (MGEs). So when MGEs move between bacteria, the defences move with them, generating a fast turnover of defences in bacteria. But what about the antiviral defence turnover in the MGEs themselves? ๐ค
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๐ฃnew preprint from the phagefoundry.org team ๐ Jessica Trinh and Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Laboratories)!!
Systematic analysis of prophages from ~1000 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, induction & screening. We found this ๐ looking phage with bunch of ๐๐
๐ฃ New preprint from us at phagefoundry.org ๐ฃ
A solid machine learning framework & to predict strain-level phage-host interactions across diverse bacterial genera from genome sequences alone. Avery Noonan from the Arkin Lab led this massive effort
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Welcome Dr. Lu Wang to the Anand Lab @SFSU! ๐งซ๐ bringing expertise in #microbial #ecology, mobile genetic elements, and #metagenomics/AMRโplus an impressive #science-#policy journey through @noaa.gov and EPA. Weโre so happy youโre here, Lu!
#MicrobialEcology #AMR #Metagenomics #SFSU
Webinar poster titled "Mining New Frontiers," scheduled for February 27, 2026, at 9am PT. Includes a QR code for registration. Features logos of JGI, Molecular Foundry, and Berkeley Lab, and images of minerals and a growing plant.
Join us Feb. 27 for more on our joint Critical Minerals & Materials call with @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov โ for projects that integrate genomics w/nanoscale science to develop bio-based technologies.
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Details: jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us/proposals/j...
๐ฟ๐ฃโโ๏ธ Rosenberg Institute Seminar Series โ Wed, Feb 18 (11:00am)
Stuart Siegel, PhD, SPWS: Two Birds, One Ecosystem โ Bringing Nature-Based Solutions to the SF Estuary
Sea level rise, restoration, and what it takes to scale solutions across the Bay.
#NatureBasedSolutions #SanFranciscoBay
A different kind of #Valentine's Day flowerโฆ๐จ #Corpse flower is opening in our SF State #greenhouse! ๐บ๐
Our Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) aka the โcorpse flowerโ is in #bloom mode: it typically peaks for ~24โ48 hours. The greenhouse is open today noonโ8pm for anyone who wants to catch it!
Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
The Tonos lab headed to the field to kick-off a project examining the relationship between Malagasy fruit-eating #birds and fruiting #plants. They seek to understand these relationships in degraded and #protected areas, and how they may recover due to community-led #conservation efforts!
Meet our new lab workhorse: a Thermo Scientific KingFisher for automated nucleic-acid extractions. Faster, cleaner DNA/RNA from wastewater, wetlands & phage isolates = more discovery time. DOE-supported Phage Pathways!
#PhagePathways #Viromics #Microbiology #AMR @sfstatebio.bsky.social
Celebrating our grad student, Jeffโs successful defense this week and a paper acceptance! Read more: academic.oup.com/sumbio/artic... #oyster #restoration #microbiome @sfstatebio.bsky.social
