Phage Foundry Undergraduate Researchers Present at Summer 2025 Poster Session

Congratulations to our BRaVE Phage Foundry undergraduate student researchers, Cristina Prieto and Jonathan Ngai, who presented at the Arkin Lab Summer Semester Undergraduate Poster Session!

The semi-annual poster session was hosted by co-investigator Adam Arkin’s Lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute Building at UC Berkeley on Monday, August 11, 2025. During the poster session, undergraduate researchers from the Arkin Lab had the opportunity to present their research findings, share their work with a wider audience, and receive feedback from peers and other research staff.

These poster sessions provide a reliable platform for undergraduate researchers to receive recognition for their work and constructive feedback from colleagues and experts. Poster sessions are also a valuable opportunity to improve research and presentation skills, both of which are crucial to success in graduate school and STEM careers.

Quality undergraduate research experiences are only possible with quality mentors. Thank you to postdoctoral researcher Avery Noonan (LBNL, Arkin Lab) for serving as a research mentor and empowering our undergraduate student researchers!

Phage Foundry undergraduate researcher Cristina Prieto (UC Berkeley, Arkin Lab) presented a poster titled “Neural Network Architecture for the Prediction of Phage-Host Interactions.”
Phage Foundry undergraduate researcher Jonathan Ngai (UC Berkeley, Arkin Lab) presented a poster titled “gLMs as Genomic Feature Extractors.”