Amanda Shelton was selected for the 2024 PacBio Microbial Genomics SMRT grant. She won the chance to perform shotgun metagenomics to understand the role of mobile elements, viruses, and horizontal gene transfer in hot springs microbial communities. Congratulations, Amanda!

The Bhaya lab hosted Navajo STEM undergraduates from ASU and NTU at Carnegie on the Stanford campus.

Lyra Pfieffer joins Bhaya lab as a summer intern

Devaki Bhaya invited to give a seminar at Colorado State University.

Amanda Shelton wins "Best Poster" award at the ASM regional meeting for her sterling research on uncovering community responses in hot spring microbial mats, using meta-genomics/transcriptomics!

Devaki Bhaya served as plenary speaker at the Conference of Research in Computational Molecular Biology on Comparative Genomic (RECOMB-CG) in Boston.

Devaki Bhaya invited as guest speaker for the Annual San Francisco Middle School Science Fair.

Distinguished lectures in Microbioloby at the Department of Bacteriology.

Workshop at Rice University for NSF grant on Assembly Graphs.

Devaki Bhaya invited as a guest speaker at St. Francis Wednesday Yachting Luncheon (WYL) Talk Series. Recording of the full talk can be found here.

Lab research featured in Carnegie article titled “Hot springs, hot science”.

Devaki Bhaya presents poster at the Board of Trustees meeting in Pasadena, CA.

Devaki Bhaya on a panel discussion on Permaculture at Metaspore, SFO.

Lab research highlighted in Carnegie Newsletter titled “New Frontiers in Biology”.

Amanda will be presenting her work “Temporal biology of a microbial community revealed by diel metatranscriptomics” on August 21 at the 2023 Annual Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting at the Joint Genome Institute.

Bhaya Lab said farewell to postdoc Freddy Bunbury as he takes an independent position at the University of Chicago. He will be missed!

Devaki Bhaya gives talk at Aspen Center for Physics workshop for Statistical Physics and Adaptive Immunity. The title of her talk was ”Cooperation and conflict in phototrophic communities”.

Seminars at Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University.

Devaki Bhaya gave a talk at ‘Behind the Scences: AEM Journal Spotlights from Lab to Pub (and Beyond!)’. ASM Microbe 2023 Title: “In the hot set: thermophilic microbial communities”.

Devaki Bhaya served as keynote speaker for the Genome Training Gran retreat at the University of California Berkeley.

Devaki Bhaya gave the Faculty Keynote address at the AnnualStanford Research Conference organized by Stanford Undergraduate Research Association (SURA).

The lab welcomed Janie Kim, a 1st year Stanford Biology PhD student. Janie will be doing a rotation project this winter quarter to learn more about RNA viruses from the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park.

The lab welcomed Ravalika Damerla, a 1st year Stanford BioE PhD student. Ravalika will be doing a rotation project this winter quarter to learn more about measuring gene expression in extremophilic microbes.

Freddy, Amanda, Arthur and Devaki received a grant from JGI to study thermotolerance in thermophilic cyanobacteria.

Amanda presented her work on diel metatranscriptomics in hot spring microbial mats to the West Coast Bacterial Physiologists meeting.

An article about Devaki’s course, Partner with Trees, was published by Taylor Kubota in the Stanford report.

The lab welcomed AyoOluwateso Coker, a Stanford Earth Systems Science PhD student.

Freddy attended the 17th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes in Liverpool, UK.

Amanda attended the 2022 Joint Genome Institute annual user meeting.

Devaki joined the Hypothesis Fund as a Scout. The Hypothesis Fund advances scientific knowledge by funding high-risk, high-reward ideas that would otherwise be un-pursued.

Devaki presented a talk about her life and career path as a part of the “Living Histories” series.

Devaki presented her research at the Carnegie Intern Seminar Series. See here for the full recording of the presentation.

Devaki gave a talk at the IBPC Paris symposium.

Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes, by the GP-SmORF Consortium of which Devaki is a member, was published in Cell Reports.

The lab welcomed Alicia Sanoyca as a part of the Carnegie Summer Intern Program. Alicia is a rising junior at UCLA majoring in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics.

Freddy and Harihara presented their research at the American Society for Microbiology conference. See their posters here.

Devaki was a Keynote speaker at the 14th Workshop on Cyanobacteria.

Devaki’s course, Partner with Trees, concluded. For images of the class see here.

Vickie’s paper Retrotransposition facilitated the establishment of a primary plastid in the thecate amoeba Paulinella was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Freddy’s paper Differential Phototactic Behavior of Closely Related Cyanobacterial Isolates from Yellowstone Hot Spring Biofilms was published by Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Freddy’s paper was a spotlight in Applied and Environmental Microbiology and made the cover!

The lab participated in the Women in Stem NightLife at Cal Academy. Click here for more information.

Devaki is teaching the course, ‘Partner with Trees’ in the Stanford biology department.

The lab welcomed Ronan Esperanza, a Stanford undergraduate majoring in neuroscience, as a part of the Stanford bioBUDS program.

Devaki presented “Dynamics, Diversity, and Defense in Phototrophic Communities” at the John Lawrence seminar series in biosciences.

The lab welcomed post-baccalaureate research fellow Evan Paris.

Freddy’s paper Phototaxis in Cyanobacteria: From Mutants to Models of Collective Behavior was published in mBio.

The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) awarded us a grant to study the relationship between Synechococcus sp. and Chloroflexus sp. within the microbial mat community of Yellowstone National Park hot springs.