Honored to collaborate on two manuscripts with the @elsanchez09.bsky.social lab. 🎉 1) “Metabolomic Analysis of Lytic KSHV Infection: Induced Host Nucleotide Metabolism Is Required for Infectious Virus Production” (research article) www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18... (see comments for second article)

The Delgado lab made it to DC! We are excited to present our research aimed at targeting host cell metabolism as antiviral therapies at #ASMicrobe @asm.org. Visit posters HEALTH-FRI-157, MECH-SAT-485, HEALTH-SUN-109 👩🏻‍🔬

Thrilled to share our recent manuscript (linked 👇) which defines a novel metabolic–epigenetic crosstalk that supports gammaherpesvirus replication and identifies host pathways as antiviral targets. #viruses #antiviral #metabolomics #RNAseq #epigenetics #herpesviruses www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18...

Thrilled to share our most recent manuscript published in @VirusesMDPI which uncovers the host cell metabolic & epigenetic changes that occur during productive infection of gammaherpesviruses. Special thanks to our collaborator @escobarthelma.bsky.social. #viruses www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18...

Its a good day when 1) your lab's research manuscript was accepted for publication in @viruses & 2) three of your undergraduate research students win a top research presentation award at the @SeattlePacific Erickson conference! Excited to share the manuscript soon!

So proud of the Delgado lab ladies who presented their research at the Erickson Research Conference at Seattle Pacific University yesterday. 👩🏻‍🔬 So honored to mentor such a fierce group of undergraduate student scientists as they work to identify antiviral drugs.

Graduation festivities today at Seattle Pacific University. Super proud of my senior undergraduate research students who are graduating tomorrow. Will miss them bunches! #professorlife

End of year lab celebration with my amazing undergraduate lab students 🎉. Will dearly miss my two graduating senior students 🥹. I gifted them a microbe mug to remember the time in the lab 😃. #professorlife #Delgadolab #undergraduateresearch 🧪

Off to present my lab’s research at the prestigious “Viruses and Cells” Gordan conference in Barcelona, Spain. Thanks to all my undergraduate research students at Seattle Pacific University who helped generate the data I am presenting. They are amazing! 🎉 #professorlife 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

Honored to have been selected as this year’s FACULTY SCHOLAR OF THE YEAR at Seattle Pacific University 🎉. I would like to thank the Delgado lab undergraduate research students & my research collaborators for their contributions/help. More info about my lab at traciedelgadolab.com 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

My lab’s RNA-seq samples are in! Thanks to my collaborator Dr @escobarthelma.bsky.social at UW and @uwiscrm.bsky.social for their help! Now we wait for data 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Two Latina PIs (#SeattlePacificUniversity & @uwiscrm.bsky.social) back at the bench for a special collaboration, prepping Illumina libraries for RNA-seq. Dr. Thelma Escobar (@escobarthelma.bsky.social) & I went to college together. Thankful for her help in this project. #ProfessorLife 🧪

Learned a new technique today at the Escobar lab @uwmedicine.bsky.social. RNA quality ✅ was great after tape station analysis. Next week is cDNA library prep before RNA-seq. #professorlife #latina #scientist👩🏻‍🔬 🧪

Congrats to Delgado lab researcher Ben Sheirbon for winning the #AAASmtg FIRST PLACE 🥇 undergraduate e-poster prize for his research presentation in the “Developmental Bio, Genetics, & Immunology” section @aaas.org. His name will be in @science.org! I am a #proudPI #science 🧪

Was a honor to speak at the @wsupullman.bsky.social SACNAS chapter meeting today about my academic journey. I also had the pleasure to meet Jimena, the current WSU SACNAS chapter president. #professorlife #representationmatters

Looking forward to my visit at Washington State University the next few days. Thank you @philmixter.bsky.social for the kind invitation! I’ll be speaking at the WSU SACNAS chapter meeting today and then giving a research seminar tomorrow at the School of Molecular Biosciences. 👩🏻‍🔬

In light of policies to defund biomedical research, and with judicial hearings happening today, we hope to highlight the many ways biomedical research improves people's lives, and to convey how damaging the proposed cuts would be... not just for us researchers, but for everyone.

Jakob von Moltke@jmoltke.bsky.social · 2y ago

Patrick Mitchell (@psmitchej.bsky.social), Thornton Thompson and I wrote an OpEd, with support from 650+ biomedical researchers across Washington State (450+ at time of submission). www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comm... List: www.moltkelab.com/s/NIH-OpEd-S...

Super proud of my undergraduate research student who presented at the @aaas.org national scientific meeting. The Delgado lab is currently identifying FDA approved metabolic drugs that can be repurposed as antivirals. #AAASmtg #Delgadolab 🧪

Celebrating my three fabulous undergraduate research students on “International Day of Women and Girls in Science”. It’s been a honor to have them in my research lab and support them as they discover new antiviral therapies! #womeninscience #11Feb 🧪

While I hope this gets overturned, if it does remain a 15% indirect cost rate, universities will need to revise their tenure and promotion requirements. Young faculty will not be able to achieve tenure and produce as many publications under this new structure. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2y ago

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

"Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard indirect rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs in lieu of a separately negotiated rate for indirect costs in every grant." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

It’s the next generation of cancer research. If a specific cancer runs in your family (genetics), you can get a vaccine against that kind of cancer. Essentially, it provides your immune system a “mug shot” of the cancer type & allows your body to kill the cancer if it does arise in the future. 🧪

Science Magazine@science.org · 2y ago

A new generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumors before they form. Learn more on #WorldCancerDay: https://scim.ag/4gk8Qmo

It’s the next generation of cancer research. If a specific cancer runs in your family (genetics), you can get a vaccine against that kind of cancer. Essentially, it provides your immune system a “mug shot” of the cancer type & allows your body to kill the cancer if it does arise in the future. 🧪

Science Magazine@science.org · 2y ago

A new generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumors before they form. Learn more on #WorldCancerDay: https://scim.ag/4gk8Qmo

Abstract submitted! Hoping to share cool antiviral research generated by amazing undergrads in my lab. Who else submitted an abstract and what do you study?! 🧪 #professorlife #virologist

American Society for Virology@amersocvirology.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today is the abstract deadline for ASV2025 in Montreal, Canada! Submit by 11:59 pm ET tonight (2/3)! asv.org/asv2025/abst...

Today, I reached the point in academia where a peer reviewer stated that there was a gap in my knowledge before going on to say that to rectify it I would need to read….. one of my articles. A milestone.

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Tracie Delgado@traciedelgado.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have NEWS to share! A research study I lead uncovering #salmonfraud rates in Seattle WA was recently published in @plos.org. Many thanks to the 50 @SeattlePacific undergrad researchers & bio faculty collaborators for their help to complete this project. (1/n) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Welp! NIH diversity supplement grants now have newly updated expiration dates dates of January 2025 revised from May 2026. 🤷‍♀️ grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Life of a virology professor. It is always fascinating to see the physiological changes in cells after they are virus infected. My lab is 1) identifying how gammaherpesviruses (which cause cancer) change host cell metabolism and 2) identifying anti-metabolism drugs that can be used as antivirals. 🧪