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Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD

@sciria.bsky.social
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HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow at Stanford University joint with KC Huang and Justin Sonnenburg | PhD @ MIT Biology in Grossman Lab | Exploring mechanisms driving horizontal gene transfer in the human gut microbiome | 🏳️‍🌈🍸🥘⛺

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Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD @sciria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pleased to share my first preprint from my postdoc, where I ask what drives mobile DNA movement between bacterial cells in complex communities like the gut microbiome. To answer this, we built a way to capture mobile DNA in the act of moving between cells, using short-read metagenomics. 🧵
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Anthony Shiver @anthonyshiver.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The labs of KC Huang and Justin Sonnenburg at Stanford are working on an exciting and impactful project related to infant probiotics and are hiring a Life Science Research Professional to be part of that team. Take a look at the posting if you're interested. Please share/apply
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Life Science Research Professional 2
Applying a comprehensive understanding for the theories and methods of a life science discipline, perform work directly involved in research projects, interpreting results and participation in experim...
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Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Next Generation Faculty Symposium SESSION 3: Immunology and Cell-Cell Interactions More on the speakers: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com/speakersalumni
Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (sariam@stanford.edu); Juan Inclan Rico, PhD,
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (jmirico.k16@gmail.com); Christian Dzuvor, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University (christian_dzuvor@hsph.harvard.edu)
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Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD @sciria.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Honored to be selected to speak at this symposium. Please tune in on Sept. 10th if you’re interested in hearing what I’ve learned while mapping HGT in the gut microbiome! www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com
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Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
JB Editor's Choice: McKeithen-Mead, Grossman et al. explore the mechanism whereby ICEBs1, an integrative and conjugative element (ICE) of B. subtilis, inhibits the host SOS response and RecA function. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology
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Anthony Shiver @anthonyshiver.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Interested in the influence of the infant microbiome on health? Quickly interrogating non-model organisms using omic approaches? A new publication, describing genome-scale resources in bifidobacteria, is now available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #microbiome #microsky
Silhouettes of infant, mouse, chick, and bacteria.
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Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD @sciria.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I'm excited to share that my third first-author publication from grad school has been published in JBAC: doi.org/10.1128/jb.0...
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Activation and modulation of the host response to DNA damage by an integrative and conjugative element | Journal of Bacteriology
Bacterial genomes typically contain mobile genetic elements, including bacteriophages (viruses) and integrative and conjugative elements, that affect host physiology. ICEs can excise from the chromoso...
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