Scientist. Explorer. Surfer. Creator. Associate Professor at SDSU. Cofounder of Metamorphotech.
San Diego, CA
Joined June 2015
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Is immunity tied to development in a basal metazoan? Check out PhD student Emily Darin's poster at the Chicago @SocDevBio meeting tomorrow!
2pm - 4:30pm
Poster # 542
Board # B106
#2023SDB
Phenomenal scientists and research happening at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @MarineMicrobio. It was an honor to be invited for a talk and chat about microbes. – at Bremen, Germany
Host-Environment interactions talk by @DrSchrankel — rising star PI 🌟in our department at @SDSU. Such a cool sea urchin model system!
Fascinating coral symbiosis talk @CawaTran!!! Welcome to the neighborhood. Looking forward to collaborating 🪸🦠
John Henry at the Aquatic Cell Biology meeting @Scripps_Ocean with automated aquatic systems for marine organism culturing (including #Hydroides!).
A unified staging scheme for Hydroides elegans, a model for bacteria-stimulated metamorphosis. Stunning images by Dr. Kate Nesbit @ShikumaLab.
I'm honored and stoked to report that the @ShikumaLab has been awarded an #R35 #MIRA grant from @NIH @NIGMS!
We will continue to uncover how Contractile Injection Systems mediate host-microbe interactions in the ocean and human gut. Incredibly thankful for this amazing team.
ALT Team Shikuma Lab beach day in San Diego, California.
ALT Transmission electron micrograph of an array of Contractile Injection Systems.
Honored to hood the first 2 PhD graduates from the @ShikumaLab. I could not be more proud of you @Amanda_T_Alker and @kylemalter. Can't wait to see your future impacts on science.
@SDSU @SDSUsciences @SDSUResearch @SanDiegoARCS @NSF
New paper from the @ShikumaLab! We define a conserved signaling cascade orchestrating metamorphosis in response to bacteria.
Proud of this team @kylemalter @m_esmerode @Amanda_T_Alker @ForsbergLab!
Thank you @Dev_Bio_Journal, anonymous reviewers, @NSF. Image: Dr. Kate Nesbit
Actual footage of my student going from larval stage to doctorate in Cell and Molecular Biology 🤩
🚨IT'S HAPPENING!🚨
My PhD defense is this Friday, May 6th at 3pm PST. I will discuss work that developed modular plasmid tools to study diverse marine symbioses and then showcase their utility for understanding function in coral probiotics. DM me or @ShikumaLab for Zoom link
Congratulations to PhD student @Amanda_T_Alker for winning a President’s Award for her talk on Coral Probiotics at @SDSU_SRS!!! @ShikumaLab #ProudPI @SDSUsciences @SDSUResearch
