Kinjaal presents her data on force evolving microbiome bacteria away from host interaction
Yesenia presents her data on the identification of a new, potentially vertically transmitted bacterial species in wild-caught nematodes
Breana presents the discovery of Duox after QTL analysis for bacterial resistance genes.
Aaliyah presents here quantitation of mitochondrial parameters in diverse species spermatozoa
Saying goodby to Tuan officially. Eight years in San Diego and he’d never been to the zoo!
Kinjaal presents her poster on force evolving microbiome bacteria to lose adherence in the C. elegans gut.
Breana presents her poster on testing the role of duox and hydrogen peroxide on intracellular bacterial infection in O. tipulae.
Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week
Lab picnic in the botanical gardens on campus to celebrate our postdoc Anupama!
Our undergraduate Yesenia is featured in SDSU news with her continuing work on wild worms discovered in our Host-Bacterial Interactions Workshop! link here
Bacteria (Leucobacter celer, white arrow) causing worm star formation, leading to worm breakage and decapitation.
We are celebrating a great year for the lab, with one PhD and two Master’s students graduating, along with a series of great research discoveries made by everyone!
Celebrating at the famous Sacher Hotel over a Sacher torte!
Dalaena Rivera giving her talk on plasmids found in adhering microbiome bacteria.
Congrats Nik on your MS defense and finding a potential metabolic switch controlled by a virulence regulator in B. avium!
Tuan giving his thesis defense on Bordetella atropi infection mechanisms.
Tuan and Laura attending their PhD graduation and hooding.
President de la Torre, Dean Roberts, and AVP Madanat visit with the Luallen Lab.
President de la Torre looks at C. elegans under the microscope.
We had our first outreach for the Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop this year! Undergrads Francis, Milan, Aysha, and Yesenia presented their research findings to sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Castle Park High School.
Thank you to Darci Kimball for letting us present to her students!
Dylan Matloub presenting his poster on natural variation in nematodes that allow for resistance to intracellular bacterial infection, likely thorough killing in the gut lumen.
Aaliyah Ringor presenting her poster on the discovery of potential adherence plasmids in microbiome bacteria that allow for gut colonization in C. elegans.
Super proud for all of our student presentations at the student research symposium! Congratulation to everyone!!!
Yesenia Rodrigues Reyes presenting her poster on new bacterial pathogens we found infecting worms isolated from the SDSU campus, as part of the Host-Bacterial Pathogens Workshop this year.
Jace Buxbaum presenting his poster on screening for suppressors of microbiome-colonization deficient mutants.
Super proud for all of our student presentations at the student research symposium! Congratulation to everyone!!!
The Luallen Lab is the first green lab on the SDSU campus! For more info, see: https://sustainable.sdsu.edu/get_involved/green_labs
Merry Worm Xmas!
Luallen Lab photo - post Holiday party
Students learn some C. elegans basics, like dauers, bagging, nictation, dumpys, rollers, and uncs.
Students learn about some of the cool bacteria we’ve found in wild nematodes