Congratulations to Dr. Maria del Carmen Chacon Castro and Dr. Eranda Berisha for their very successful PhD defenses!

Dr. Sanchez won the Eugene and Millicent Goldschmidt Mentoring Faculty Award and presented a talk, “Demystifying the Academic Science Career Path.”

September 2026 Emma Winn passed her qualifying exam, and officially became a PhD Candidate! PhD Canidate Maria Chacon presented at Eukaryotic Supergroup! PhD Canidate Eranda Berisha presented at Micro-Supergroup! October 2026 The Sanchez lab attended the Fall 2026 branch meeting for the Texas chapter of the American Society for Microbiology! PhD Canidate Anisha Reddy presented at Microbiology Supergroup on her thesis project. Research technician Anjali Venna presented at Euka

August 2026 PhD Canidate Anisha Reddy publishes her ANO1 and KSHV vGPCR paper in Viruses! It is titled “vGPCR-mediated ANO1 Modulation of Apoptosis Regulates Lytic KSHV Infection.” PhD Canidate Eranda Berisha publishes her KSHV and lipidomics paper in Viruses! It is titled “Global Lipidomic Analysis of Lytic KSHV Infection: The Lipid Chaperone FABP4 Supports Maximal Infectious Virion Production.” PhD Canidate Fatima Hisam publishes her Lytic KSHV Metabolomics paper in Viruses

April 2026 PhD Canidate Eranda Berisha presents at MicroSupergroup! Her talk is titled "Global Lipidomic Analysis of Lytic KSHV Infection: The Lipid Chaperone FABP4 is Required for Maximal Infectious Virion Production." March 2026 The plastic-derived pollutants and virus infection review is published in Pathogens! Dr. Sanchez gives Keynote research talk at TX Branch ASM Meeting in Cedar Hill TX!

Spring Applications Open October 26 – 28, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

The CoSE Showcase features a variety of exciting student projects, highlighting faculty's commitment to providing SF State students with hands-on experience in the discovery of new knowledge. MS students, Ernst Pulido, Jan Cajulao, and Eduardo Hernandez win 1st place and 3rd place, respectively for their poster presentation. Ernst presented his project on "Protein-Protein Interaction Analysis of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus and its Role in Host Viral Replication" a

First year MS student, Eduardo Hernandez will be joining UCSF's Gladstone Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Scholars program this summer 2022 where he will be participating in HIV research at the intersections of basic, clinical, and behavioral/ epidemiological scientific disciplines.

I recently spoke to Amanda Verzosa who is a Master's student in Dr Erica Sanchez' lab in the Biology Department. She told me about how her Master's was impacted by the SCIP and GOLD programs and how she plans to continue her coding journey as a PhD student at Stanford. Amanda will join the Computational and Systems Immunology PhD track! We are so proud of you, Amanda!

The first batch of MS students are graduating and heading off to PhD programs this Fall 2022. Ernst Pulido will be joining Stanford's Biophysics program. Jan Cajulao wil be joining UC Berkeley's Molecular and Cellular Biology program. Amanda Verzosa will be joining Stanford's Immunology program. Lorenzo Mena will be joining University of Utah's Molecular Biology program.

Eduardo and Kevin receive SFSU's IRA Grant to conduct their master's thesis.

With over 12,000 applicants and only 2,000 awardees, the NSF GRFP is a highly competitive fellowship that tries to fund the next generation of innovative scientists who have demonstrated their likeliness of having a significant impact in their field and whom have demonstrated excellence in broad community service. ​Jan wrote his proposal on the trafficking and localization of KSHV's viral GPCR. We are so proud of you Jan!

In collaboration with Dr. Tracy Delgado and Shun-Je Bhark from Seattle Pacific University and Dr. Nicole Salazar Velmeshev from San Francisco State University, the Sanchez lab publishes their first review article. "Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infection of Neuronal and Non-Neuronal Cells Elicits Specific Innate Immune Responses and Immune Evasion Mechanisms" summarizes how HSV-1 is able to manipulate and evade host antiviral innate immune responses both in neuronal and non-neuronal

First year MS student, Jan Cajulao, is awarded the Achievement Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) scholarship! The ARCS scholarship is awarded to ten SFSU graduate students in the Departments of Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Computer Science, Earth & Climate Sciences, Geography & Environment, Mathematics, Physics & Astronomy. To learn more information, check out this website!