We’re excited to celebrate Norah Hom, an undergraduate researcher in our lab, for publishing her article “Phage Warfare: Mechanisms of Bacteriophages and Clinical Applications” in the Undergraduate Berkeley Scientific Journal (Spring 2025 Edition). Norah’s piece dives into the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance and explores how bacteriophages could help turn the tide. She explains how … Continue reading Breaking Into Literature!
News and Musings
Celebrating successes!
In times of uncertainty it is more important than ever to celebrate successes - and while it is a challenging time to be in science (especially academic science) it remains a wonderful community to be part of and an incredibly rewarding job! Among my favorite parts of this career is watching as trainees find their … Continue reading Celebrating successes!
When evolution and ecology collide
Slide from left to right to flash forward in time and see if you can guess which ecological or evolutionary process is occurring in the top, middle, or bottom panel!Figure 1. Changes in relative abundance of simple microbiome under different scenarios to highlight the importance of genetic resolution and the contributions of ecology and evolution. … Continue reading When evolution and ecology collide
Emerging from 2020… into 2022
Koskella lab retreat at the UC Berkeley Angelo Coast Reserve, March 2022 Where did 2021 go? I often ask myself that question, but here we are half way through 2022. Despite time moving in odd ways, we have been slowly regaining a sense of normalcy and sciencing away as always! Here is a brief taste … Continue reading Emerging from 2020… into 2022
What a year (2020) it’s been!
Sciencing during a global pandemic is no joke. Well, you need only look at how long it has been since our last news post to see that things have been.... unusual. As COVID-19 brought the University and our lab to a grinding halt, we all had to find new ways to continue meeting (thank you … Continue reading What a year (2020) it’s been!
Wrapping up 2019! Welcomes and new papers…
A subset of our group (it's hard to get everyone together at the same time!), November 2019(Newest members: Kama Chock (1st year PhD Student; 2nd from left), Wenke Smets (BAEF Postdoctoral Fellow; 9th from left), Emily Dewald-Wang (Research Technician, 5th from left), and Ana Luisa Soares de Vasconcelos (visiting PhD Student from the University of … Continue reading Wrapping up 2019! Welcomes and new papers…
Science at the end of the world
Preface: I am not a fiction writer, but I have been having a very challenging time focusing on work and life as usual with the daily news as it is, and one way I've found to cope is to imagine what the 'end' could look like (sounds morbid, I know) and write about it. Below … Continue reading Science at the end of the world
Spring news, updates, and congratulations
It has been a fantastic Spring in the lab, and we are launching into a busy summer of research, with three ongoing field trials (that's right, we're heading outdoors!) and a new cohort of summer undergraduate researchers. Stay tuned for more on their work soon. First, a few congratulations: 1) Dr. Norma Morella has successfully … Continue reading Spring news, updates, and congratulations
Research for undergraduates
Hints to undergraduates for writing a strong email to faculty about research positions … Continue reading Research for undergraduates
Congratulations to previous PhD student Sean Meaden
A huge congratulations to Dr. Sean Meaden, who graduate from the lab in 2016, on his recent Marie Curie Fellowship award. I asked Sean to send a quick blurb on what he will be doing, and he responded: "I will be spending 2 years at the University of Otago working with Prof. Peter Fineran. The … Continue reading Congratulations to previous PhD student Sean Meaden
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