The Anand Lab at San Francisco State University

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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!

☀️🔥 Nothing says dedication like hauling wetland soil cores under the blazing sun! Huge shout-out to our postdoc Sona and lab tech Danica for braving the heat to bring back samples that hold secrets of microbial life and carbon cycling. 🌱🦠 #fieldwork #wetlands #phages

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

Phage season in the lab 🧫🦠
We kicked off a DOE-supported workshop with students from @sfstatebio.bsky.social & @sdsuresearch.bsky.social trained by @berkeleylab.lbl.gov From streaking to top-agar pours to plaques: future viromics pros in the making!
#PhagePathways #PhageDiscovery #Microbiology

Celebrating our grad student, Jeff’s successful defense this week and a paper acceptance! Read more: academic.oup.com/sumbio/artic... #oyster #restoration #microbiome @sfstatebio.bsky.social

Today was special. My first master’s student successfully defended his thesis! Michael Hajkowski was the first student to ask to join my lab in Jan 2023 determined, and passionate. Now, he’s off to UC Riverside for a PhD! While we’ll miss him deeply, I couldn’t be prouder. @sfstatebio.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

Proud of our grad students who showcased their amazing research this week at our mini student showcase! Excited for the future of science! Michael Hajkowski, Sanjiev Nand, Kyle Roe, LuzMaria Soto and Gabriela Franco.

Dr. Robert Boria and his lab study the impacts of anthropogenic factors on the distribution of small mammal diversity. Here, the Boria lab visited the mammal collections at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and learned how to prepare skin specimens.

Field season has begun, and students are being trained in field methods such as small mammal handling, lizard catching, and tick sampling. Funded by PacVec, a CDC-collaborative Center of Excellence, photos here show graduate students, Grace Oram, Gerardo Ramos, and Timara Veren in the field-Swei Lab

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Tomorrow is Gators give day! Please consider donating anything if you can! The resources will help support our amazing university, which provides a rich education and research opportunities for all! 💜💛🐊 💰💸 #SFState @sfstatebio.bsky.social #Donate

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It’s #GatorsGiveDay! Your support helps us:
🔬provide #scholarship & #research opportunities,
🧫 hands-on #experiences,
🥼 build mentorship and community. Visit lnkd.in/gYdD3qSM; Gifts made on this special day may also help unlock any matching gifts or challenges so your support can go even further!

Thanks to the amazing generosity of our donors, we’ve surpassed our initial goal! We’d love to keep the momentum going, and every extra dollar we can raise goes directly to support more students, more research and more ways to transform lives. Please consider a gift to reach our next goal of $4000!

Hands-on phage hunting in action! Our @sfstatebio.bsky.social grad students and NSF Postbac RAMP Scholar are getting valuable training in phage isolation techniques with support from the @vivekmutalik.bsky.social Mutalik Lab. Grateful for this collaboration through the BRaVE Phage Foundry!

The Crook Lab studies cephalopods to understand how we can better treat octopuses when they need anesthesia, analgesia or other veterinary care. Postdoc Dr. Gabrielle Winters-Bostwick is using calcium imaging to observe individual neurons in the octopus arm responding to vibration and food odors

Seminar this week! Dr Sean Jungbluth will talk about diving into blue innovation: computational biology and aquatic ecology at the cutting edge.

www.phagepathways.com supported by the US Dept of Energy is super excited to welcome its first seminar series speaker - Dr Faith Dukes, Director of K-12, University and Faculty STEM education @berkeleylab.lbl.gov on Mar 21 @ 10am! Check out the flyer for more information. #phagepathways

Shucking our way to science! 🦪🔬 Undergraduate Kosi Acholonu is hard at work dissecting native Olympia oysters from Loch Lomond in SF Bay to uncover their hidden microbial secrets. What tales do these tiny ecosystems tell? Stay tuned! #OysterScience #LabLife @sfstatebio.bsky.social

Thank you for an incredible seminar! Dr Catera Wilder

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

New lab swag 😎

Please email a 2-page CV, and information for 2 references to pps@phagepathways.com by Feb 15, 2025.

The postdoc will work closely with PI and co-Is to devise assessment strategies for continuous improvement of the program. As a portion of the position will be editorial in nature, they should possess careful revision and editorial skills and attention to detail.

The postdoc will carry out laboratory measurements to better understand phage-host interactions in environmental samples that will be used for student traineeships while also co-leading recruitment of the phage pathway scholar cohort.

We are seeking a program manager/postdoctoral research fellow to join us. The postdoc will be based at San Francisco State University and serve as a liaison between investigators at @sdsuresearch.bsky.social, @ucdavis.bsky.social, SFSU, national labs @sandialabs.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov 1/3

Graduate student Michael Acholonu presenting at the 2025 Stanford Global Health Research Convening on our #antimicrobialresistance work in #wastewater! Read our preprint if you haven’t already: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @sfstatebio.bsky.social

Giving this starter pack a go! To unite over #oyster #reef science and #livingshorelines, microbiological agents in these communities here it is: go.bsky.app/GjU9Mzd

Please reach out if you want to be added

So grateful to @vivekmutalik.bsky.social, Harshini Mukundan,Adam Arkin, Catherine Mageeney and Faith Dukes for their support in putting this piece together!

Sharing a piece that I wrote that’s very close to my heart and is now published in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social. It’s a quick read on pathway programs for increasing inclusion and persistence in microbiology! doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...