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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj

@mightycrobe.bsky.social

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Assoc. Prof. @Wellesley College | microbial ecologist | gut microbiome -> child development | microbes rock | vkclab.com

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Cool things happen when you partner up w/ @zymoresearch.bsky.social. My undergrad course in microbio’s Adopt-a-microbe assignment resulted in @wellesley.edu student Sophia Shin’s card being selected to go into the 2025 deck of Mighty Microbe cards!!

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Great job @gfahurbottino.bsky.social presenting our lab’s work on the gut microbiome age model at #ASM2025

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

@wellesley.edu students Arla & Sara’s work this summer includes setting up and testing the water quality sensors and the weather station! We’ll move the sensors with the buoy to the middle of the lake in a few weeks. Huge thanks to Andrew from Onset and nd Nef from WC for their help!

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Congrats to the four VKC lab graduates, Nina Zhang, Meredith Swanson, Sally Song, and Trisha Rahman (unfortunately not in the photos). I'm so proud of you, I already miss you, and I cannot wait to read and hear about your next big achievements!

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

VKC lab party from last April - painting with microbes.

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I am grateful for a lab full of kind, supportive, joyful, smart and hard-working people. These days, I am extra thankful to each and every one of them as they keep things light and fun. This is how they surprised me last week 🥰:

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Vaccines work. Look at the data - lots of great interactive charts: ourworldindata.org/vaccination). Also, if measles is linked to poor diet, why are free, nutritious school lunches for low-income kids going away?

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My two undergraduate research students, Nina and Sally, presenting their research at the MIT Microbiome Symposium last Friday. Great meeting w great talks and wonderful people! I always learn something new.

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Two seniors from the VKC lab standing next to the ancient autoclave after presenting their senior research at the Biochemistry Winter Session Retreat (right before the semester started)! Both did a great job explaining their work to other thesising seniors.

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

1st week is done! I’m teaching two microbio courses this semester & super excited about both - students are kind & chatty (in a good way!) & thoughtful. One thought I shared w/ them was this one 👇 students do better when intellectually challenged & stimulated but supported by all. Happy teaching!

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

@kevbonham.bsky.social - sad to see you leave the VKC lab but excited for your new lab at Tufts MC! Our last mtg at Wellesley - plotting out new projects together w @gfahurbottino.bsky.social! And an appropriate parting gift for a new professor! Looking fwd to testing them out in your new office!

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Vanja Klepac-Ceraj @mightycrobe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

An incredibly talented undergraduate biochemistry student, Gabriel Bazan, made this illustration ❤️ to accompany our research rdcu.be/d6cCw just published with @naturecomms.bsky.social

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