Congratulations to Alice Truong for receiving a Distinguished Graduate Award from SFSU!

Look who one two prizes!!

What a week! @SweiLab alum, @kaciering, is participating in the UC Grad slam this morning!

Congrats to the ARCS scholars from @sfsu_biology for their fantastic work!

Master’s student, Shannon Summers, did an awesome job presenting her research on the utility of phylogenetic metrics of biodiversity to predict disease risk at ESA2023 in Portland.

First nymphal tick of the season. Can you spot it?

Kicking off #BAEEID with introductions from @SACNAS_SFSU representatives.

#BAEEID2023 is about to start. Excited to welcome students and researchers from around the bay! @wavingfrog @MicrobeExplorer @ravindersehgal @SFStateBIO @calacademy

Took a field trip to Berkeley. Everyone got a short story from the dispenser, got to meet the famous T-Rex and admired the campanile!

Alright who wants to get us to 1000 followers? This deer mouse donated a piece of ear tissue for science. Can you spare a like?

#esa2022 @shannonsummers_ presents her #nsf funded Research Experience for Postbac research on Borrelia burgdorferi ospA diversity! Congratulations! She will start a Masters in the Fall!

After many hours of library prep, clean-ups, and quantification, @__jacoob got to press the “start run” button on his microbiome run! Send good cluster generation vibes this weekend!

This week was tick identification time! Students in a disease ecology class learned how to use binomial keys to identify what species and life stages of ticks they collected in the field. Spoiler alert: a lot of western black legged ticks!