Category: Outreach
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PI Vivek Mutalik Honored by A-LIFT as 2026 Outstanding Mentor of the Year
Congratulations to Phage Foundry PI Vivek Mutalik (LBNL) for his award from Berkeley Lab Academic Learning Internships and Faculty Training (A-LIFT) team recognizing him as a 2026 Outstanding Mentor of the Year! The A-LIFT team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory designs and delivers experiential learning programs for K–12, undergraduate, post baccalaureate, graduate students, and faculty.…
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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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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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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…