Congrats to the many UCSD BioSciences students who won U.S. National Science Foundation GRFPs this year, and to all students who successfully submitted applications, its a lot of work! Awards Claire Chapman Gabrielle Meza Andrew Kapinos Jose Chacon Jocelyn Olvera John Reddan Honorable mention Taryn Broe

BUMMP is a labour of love that would not be possible without our co-founder Sumedha Ravishankar and Sonya Neal, as well as our amazing board members 🥺💗 Ivy Fernandes, Eric Jordahl, Claire Chapman, Devanshi Agarwal, Bindhu Hosuru, Erik Wieboldt, Megan Hayes, Alex Stream & Jason Avalos!

Our #IAIJournal minireview is published ASM "Modulation of Host-Microbe Metabolism by Cholera Toxin" Claire Chapman Andrew Kapinos journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ia…

See you at the faculty club!!

The grind behind BUMMP is all worth it when you see the impact it has on our mentees♥️ Now time to celebrate on another impactful event. Many thanks to the BUMMP team, especially Claire Chapman Alex Stream and Megan Hayes for organizing another successful BUMMP Symposium

We finally took a lab picture 🤩

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Cholera toxin: metabolic reprogramming of epithelial cells by a virulence factor changes the luminal environment of the microbiota. Nice example of how pathogens expose causal links between host physiology and gut microbiota composition. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ia…

Thrilled to be selected as one of the 2023 #FHScholars and to be a part of the HHMI family that will honor Freeman Hrabrowski's legacy. A dream grant that will propel my science. Grateful to my inspiring group members, mentors, friends, colleagues and family. Congrats all!

UCSD’s annual giving campaign is today and tomorrow! Please consider donating to the Biology Undergraduate and Master's Mentorship Program (BUMMP). Donations can be made here: bit.ly/gtBUMMP.

First Torrey Pines Microbiology Symposium organized by Howard Hang, with excellent speakers (mostly trainees or junior faculty) from Scripps, UCSD, JCVI, San Diego State. Great attendance from this amazing community.

Congratulations to my first graduate student, Phillip Doan (Phillip Doan), for successfully defending his Masters thesis! #proudpi

Congrats again to both of my amazing students Claire Chapman and Andrew Kapinos, and to all of the other UCSD BioSciences recipients!

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So happy I was able to stop by the BUMMP table today at SACNAS. I can’t believe it has already been 3 years since I was a BUMMP mentee with the incredible DocTara🇦🇬 as my mentor. Forever grateful for this program! 🥹

BUMMP is hosting a Writing Workshop on 11/8 from 5-6pm in 2130 Bonner Hall! Come work with BUMMP mentors to receive feedback and guidance for writing a personal statement. We also need mentors to join and work with our mentees on their personal statements. RSVP required!

Halloween potluck / costume party organized by Sharon Young. This is the way 🎃

BUMMP mentors and mentees making meaningful connections at the welcome lunch event ♥️BUMMP

So proud of our mentees for getting ahead on writing applications and of our mentors for taking the time to give feedback!