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Phage Foundry Undergraduate Researchers Selected for SULI Program
Congratulations to Phage Foundry undergraduate researchers Isabella Murray and Madeline Svab, who have been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program! The DOE SULI program awards will support Murray’s and Svab’s ongoing research during the Fall 2025 term at PI Vivek Mutalik’s lab at Lawrence Berkeley…
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Phage Foundry Undergraduate Researchers Present at Spring 2025 Poster Session
Congratulations to our six Phage Foundry undergraduate researchers who presented at the Arkin Lab Spring Semester Undergraduate Poster Session! The semi-annual poster session was hosted by co-investigator Adam Arkin’s Lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. During the poster session, Phage Foundry undergraduate researchers from both the Arkin…
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Phage Foundry Presents at the 2025 DOE BER BSSD PI Meeting
The Phage Foundry presented three posters and three short talks at the Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research Program (BER) Biological and Systems Science Division (BSSD) Annual PI Meeting (BSSD PI Meeting) held in Arlington, Virginia, on March 31 – April 2, 2025. This annual meeting provides a venue for BSSD-supported PIs, colleagues,…
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Summer Research Intern Presents Poster at UC Berkeley College of Engineering Dean’s Society Research Conference
The Phage Foundry is proud to share that summer research intern in the Mutalik Lab, Valentine Lindarto, a UC Berkeley undergraduate bioengineering student, presented a poster at the Dean’s Society Research Conference held in Santa Clara, California, on October 16, 2024. Every Fall and Spring, the UC Berkeley College of Engineering College Relations team and…
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DOE Program Managers Visit Phage Foundry Facilities at Berkeley Lab
On Tuesday, October 1, Department of Energy (DOE) program managers visited Phage Foundry facilities at Berkeley Lab. The visit was led by principal investigator, Vivek Mutalik, and co-investigators Jamie Inman, Adam Deutschbauer, Hans Carlson, Harshini Mukundan, and Brady Cress (UC Berkeley). Program managers met team members including Denish Piya (project scientist, Mutalik Lab), Ryan Melnyk…
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Phage Foundry Investigator Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
Congratulations to Phage Foundry co-investigator, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist, Simon Roux, who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)! The ASM Microbiome Data Prize recognizes distinguished research achievements that support open data practices, development of standards and processes for data quality…
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Phage Foundry Participates in the 2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Apprentice Program (BLDAP)
By Madeline Svab and Isabella Murray Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, exist in every place on earth where bacteria live. Since bacteria are so numerous on the planet, phages can be isolated from nearly anywhere—even student’s samples from outdoor spaces in their local community. This is precisely what a cohort of 21 high school students…
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2024 Genomic Science Program and Enabling Capabilities and Resources Principal Investigator Meetings
Vivek Mutalik, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, lead investigator of the Phage Foundry, and Brady Cress, University of California, Berkeley, co-investigator, and Denish Piya, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, project scientist, attended the DOE BSSD 2024 Genomic Science Program and Enabling Capabilities and Resources Principal Investigator Meetings on April 2-4, 2024, in Maryland.