Workshop: The Mutalik lab from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab will conduct a 5 (full-)day workshop at San Francisco State University. The workshop will provide scholars training in bacterial culturing, Phage Isolation, and Phage genome extraction. 

Mutalik Lab Interests:  Led by Dr.  Vivek Mutalik, the Mutalik Lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory focuses on advancing microbial and bacteriophage biology using high-throughput approaches to functionally characterize genes from microbes and phages, including those in metagenomic samples. The lab investigates the mechanisms of phage–host interactions and their roles in antibiotic resistance and host fitness, while also engineering phages and microbial communities for applications in biotechnology and medicine, including the design of phage–antibiotic therapies and synthetic genetic tools.