Department of Biology | San Francisco State University

🐟👀 SFSU Biology seminar — Thu Mar 5
2–3pm | SEC 116
Dr. Patricia Schneider (LSU): “Split Screens: Exploring Vision through the Eyes of the Four-Eyed Fish.”
Student time: 3–3:30pm. Come by!

Welcome Dr. Lu Wang to the Anand Lab @SFSU! 🧫🌊 bringing expertise in #microbial #ecology, mobile genetic elements, and #metagenomics/AMR—plus an impressive #science-#policy journey through @noaa.gov and EPA. We’re so happy you’re here, Lu!
#MicrobialEcology #AMR #Metagenomics #SFSU

🧠 SFSU Biology Special Seminar
Dr. Biswa Ramani, MD, PhD (UCSF) — neurodegeneration + neuropathology + physician-scientist career path
📅 Wed 2/25/2026 • 🕙 10:00–11:40 • 📍 Hensill Hall 233 Hosted by @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social
All welcome!

Bar chart shows percentage completed for SFSU students and CSULA students with low and high GPA. All completion rates at in the 80s except for high GPA CSULA students which have lower completion rates in the 70s.

My colleagues at @sfsu.bsky.social used 3 decades of data to show that students with low undergrad GPA have equal PhD completion rates compared to students with high GPA. @sfstatebio.bsky.social

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🌿🚣‍♂️ Rosenberg Institute Seminar Series — Wed, Feb 18 (11:00am)
Stuart Siegel, PhD, SPWS: Two Birds, One Ecosystem – 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 flower…🚨 #Corpse flower is opening in our SF State #greenhouse! 🌺👃
Our Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) aka the “corpse flower” is in #bloom mode: it typically peaks for ~24–48 hours. The greenhouse is open today noon–8pm for anyone who wants to catch it!

First lab meeting of the school year. Going over the basics of Drosophila genetics. @sfstatebio.bsky.social #drosophila

Shea from Prof. Kevin Simonin’s lab is measuring the water cost of flowers 🌼 in California poppy populations at Mt. Diablo. Flowering is essential for reproduction, but it comes with a price. This work uncovers how plants balance beauty, survival, and resilience.

#PlantScience #CaliforniaPoppy

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!

Summer in the field with the Boria Lab @SFSU 🌿 Students monitored small mammals across Bay Area habitats, from dunes near the Golden Gate to redwood forests. Hands-on training + real data for conservation science.

#Fieldwork #Ecology #BoriaLab

Science meets storytelling 🌍✨
Check out this new blog post from the Sehgal Lab that dives the hidden connections between parasites, biodiversity, and human health.

Read more here: www.ravindersehgal.com?p=2899

#ScienceBlog #ResearchMatters #Microbiology #Conservation #LabLife

New from the Swei lab in Science Advances: In California’s Mediterranean climate, infected ticks don’t respond to weather like uninfected ticks. Cloud cover ↑ density; wind ↓ it. Implications for Lyme risk forecasting.
#LymeDisease #DiseaseEcology #ClimateChange #VectorBiology #SFSU

Our #PASEDB community is growing thanks to passionate leaders like ours! ✨🙌
@karen-crow.bsky.social president from @sfstatebio.bsky.social , Leslie Pick previous president from @umdentomology.bsky.social and Chris Amemiya past president from @ucmerced.bsky.social

Our very first thesis defense!
Anand Lab is proud to support this milestone in environmental microbiology and public health.
Friday, May 9 | 10 AM–12 PM | Thornton Hall (Blakeslee Room) + Zoom
#AnandLab #ThesisDefense #OneHealth #AMR @sfstatebio.bsky.social @archanand.bsky.social #Metagenomics

Animal lovers + science nerds, unite!
Join Dr. Jan Randall @ SF State on May 8 for a student lunch & seminar on how animals talk to each other!
Lunch: 12:30 | HH 520
Seminar: 2:00 | SEC 116
#Biology #AnimalBehavior #SFStateEvents

Such an interesting talk today @sfstatebio.bsky.social Seminar by Dr. Shannon Yan from #StanfordBiology Answering physical tension questions during various stages of mitosis, vesicle budding, and migration 🔬🧫🥼👩🏻‍🔬

Today’s @sfstatebio.bsky.social seminar with a “Mechanic in the house” #ShannonYan #StanfordBiology asking a big question: how does a cell physically divide? Amazing to see #mitotic membrane tension profiles generated by pulling at membrane with #optical_tweezers #optical_laser_trap #optogenetics

Excited to host Dr Shannon Yan (Stanford) at SF State Bio on May 1! 🥪 Student lunch 12:30–1:30 PM (HH 520) & 🔬 Seminar 2–3 PM + BIOL 870 Q&A 3–3:30 PM (SEC 116). Join us to dive into mechanobiology & live-cell force dynamics! #SFStateBio #Mechanobiology

Do baby poop #microbiomes correlate with higher risk for allergies & #asthma in early childhood? #SusanLynch #ucsfmicrobiome has evidence that microbiota products can promote #allergic #inflammation in mouse model! #intergenerational #12,13-diHOME #epigenetics #siolta @sfstatebio.bsky.social seminar

Earth Week at SFSU is here!
From healing meditations to hands-on upcycling, come be part of a powerful movement toward climate and environmental justice.
April 21–24.
Check the full schedule and join us on campus!

#EarthWeek #Sustainability #SFState #ClimateAction

Excited to host UCSF’s Dr. Susan Lynch @ SFSU Bio Colloquium, April 17.
Topic: Leveraging early life microbiomes to treat disease.
12:30PM: Student lunch (HH 520)
2PM: Seminar (SEC 116)
#Microbiomes #Asthma #ScienceTalk #SFSUBiology

Congratulations to Gen-PINC Scholar, Maria Anjum who has accepted a research internship at the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, Marson Lab!! The PINC program at SFSU is very proud to announce this well-deserved achievement!

@sfstatebio.bsky.social
@gladstoneinst.bsky.social

CSU Biotech members

@sfstatebio.bsky.social Professor, Mike Goldman, an inspiration for many @csubiotech.bsky.social program faculty and students, attended his last Strategic Planning Council meeting yesterday at Kellogg West, Pomona. We will miss you Mike! #CalStateUniversity #Biotechnology

Just out: Prof. Jonathon Stillman’s new review in Journal of Experimental Biology from his Spring ‘24 BIOL865 course. It explores how heat waves affect intertidal organisms.

Read: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
#MarineBio #HeatStress #TeachingToPublication

This was an incredible, international, tree-of-life spanning collaborative effort led by @roseamarks.bsky.social. I had fun and it was great model for how we can start to reach across disciplinary barriers and silos. @naturecomms.bsky.social #interdisciplinary