We found phage that can infect microbiome bacteria in C. elegans. Thanks to Hamza Hajama from Anca Segall’s lab!!!
Two plaques seen on a lawn of bacteria isolated from the C. elegans microbiome.
We are hunting for phage that can infect C. elegans microbiome bacteria around campus. The first pass plasmid is to go to areas where we normally find wild C. elegans to look for bacteriophage.
Hamza, Johann, Serena, Dalaena, and Beatrice hunting for phage that infection C. elegans microbiome bacteria around the SDSU campus.
We had our first outreach for the Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop! Undergrads Venus, Aaliyah, and Amanda presented their findings to juniors at High Tech High Mesa.
Venus, Aaliyah, and Amanda (left to right) standing in front of a mural in the high school lounge area
Emily, Serena, Amanda, Venus, and Aaliyah waiting before their first presentation of the day.
Super proud for all of our student presentations at the student research symposium!
Senior Makaela Levine presents her work on type secretion systems required for intracellular bacterial infection.
Senior Sandra Lee presents her work on using bulk sergeant analysis to map resistance to intracellular bacterial infection.
Super proud for all of our student presentations at the student research symposium! Congratulations to Ila for winning the President’s Award for Best Biology Presentation!!!
MS student Ila Peeler presents her metabolic modeling of bacterial filamentation.
Senior Kayla Poirier presents her work showing commensal microbiome bacteria growth and adherence in the gut of C. elegans.
We’re at it again. Looking for wild C.elegans and their associated bacteria. This is our second time sampling with the Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop students.
Our first round of sampling. It recently rained in SD, so we got a lot of maggots in these samples! Students are Venus Ghani, Amanda Haio, and Aaliyah Ringor (left to right).
Dalaena Rivera works with a videographer from JOVE to shoot our protocol describing how to conduct FISH for microbiome bacteria in C. elegans animals.
This is part of a collection of JOVE protocols on Methods for microbiome research in Caenorhabditis elegans
Congratulations to the Shikuma lab and our lab for receiving NIH MIRA grants! We’ve been having our Worm Rodeo joint lab meeting for years and its awesome/crazy to be funded by the same grant mechanisms at the same time.
Tuan presenting his work on B. atropi filamentation
Dalaena presenting her discovery of host factors required for microbiome adherence in the C. elegans gut.
Congratulations to Emily Morgan for graduating from SDSU with her BS in Biology!!!
Congratulations to the lab for receiving an NSF CAREER grant! We are celebrating with champagne and banh mi! That’s our third cork to be added the lab accomplishment shrine.
Undergraduate Emily Morgan give a talk on her research at the SDSU Student Research Symposium. Great job Emily, and good job answering all those questions!
Congratulations Tuan for your Nature Comms paper!
Paper here: Bacterial filamentation as mechanism for cell-to-cell spread within an animal host
News items here:
Thread spread - A never-before-seen way bacteria infect cells
Scientists Discover A Novel Way That Bacteria Infect Cells
Behind the Paper article at Nature Portfolio:
Going away dinner for Munira Ali. We will miss you Munira and good luck with medical school!
Emily Morgan works with a videographer from JOVE to shoot our protocol describing how to enrich for microbiome bacteria in wild-caught nematodes
Check out her paper and video here:
Selective cleaning of wild Caenorhabditis nematodes to enrich for intestinal microbiome bacteria
Sampling rotten leopard plant stems, Farfugium japonicum. We found both Pristionchus and C. elegans here!
Sample processing
We can’t get one of our microbiome bacterial strains to grow in vitro, so we’re trying to make media out of rotten apple sauce. If this doesn’t work, on to rotten bananas. BTW the only reason they’re all smiling is because they know I’m taking a picture. Its actually pretty disgusting!