Last day of the conference and we got a lovely picture with our close collaborator and my mentor Marie-Anne Felix! Now the lab will split up as everyone travels around the world for vacations. Thanks to Erin Osborne Nishimura for taking this picture of us!
Congratulations Dalaena for an Honorable Mention for your poster: Conjugative plasmids may be necessary for adherence of commensal-like bacteria to C. elegans intestinal epithelium.
So proud of everyone for representing our lab and research with posters, talks, and networking!
And this is them drinking after the poster session the night before.
We all arrived safely in Glasgow for the 24th C. elegans Meeting in Glasgow!
Jonathan Saunder’s worm art piece Nessie Sighting best encapsulates a bunch of C. elegans researchers coming to Scotland.
We have 6 undergraduates graduating this semester! Congratulations to Cece, Kayla, Makaela, Meena, Nathan, and Sandra the Class of 2023!!!
We went bowling with the House lab and also played a little ping pong. Thanks to Omar for organizing this.
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.
