Delgado Lab News!
March 18, 2025
Congratulations to Delgado lab alumni, Morgan McGovern (B.S. in Biochemistry, 2022), who will be attending Rutgers University's Molecular Biosciences PhD program starting Fall 2025!
February 27, 2025
Delgado gives research seminar at Washington State University (WSU) and speaks to their WSU SACNAS chapter. (Pullman, WA)
February 14, 2025
Ben Sheirbon presents research poster at the AAAS annual meeting and wins FIRST PLACE award!
Ben Sheirbon, senior undergraduate student in the Delgado lab, was awarded first place in the undergraduate poster competition at the 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting in the “Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Immunology” category. AAAS (the American Association for the Advancement of Science) is the publisher of the top-tier journal Science, which will publish the full list of award winners, including Ben, in their April 18, 2025 issue.
Jan 28, 2025
Congratulations to Delgado lab alumni, Sara Hartman (B.S. in Physiology, 2024), who will be attending Medical School at the University of Washington starting Fall 2025!
Dec 20, 2024
Our research article "Fishy Business in Seattle" was one of twelve research articles selected for the end of the year "Editors Picks: Highlights of 2024."
https://everyone.plos.org/2024/12/20/editors-picks-highlights-of-2024/
November 13-15, 2024
Delgado lab students Yenni Gaspar& Bella Camarillo present their research at the ABRCMS National conference (Pittsburgh, PA)
November 14, 2024
Delgado presents her research at the ABRCMS National conference (Pittsburgh, PA)
“Combating Viruses: Repurposing clinically relevant anti-metabolism drugs as viral therapies”
Nov 6 - 11, 2024
Our research article titled "Fishy business in Seattle: Salmon mislabeling fraud in sushi restaurants vs grocery stores" is trending in the press (TV, Radio, News Articles, etc.)
Press links --> https://www.traciedelgadolab.com/salmon-fraud-in-seattle-research
November 7 - 8, 2024
Delgado lab students present their research at the 24th Annual Murdock College Science Research Conference.
Jewel Garcia, Dr. Tracie Delgado, Yenni Gaspar
Jewel Garcia
Yenni Gaspar
Nov 6, 2024
Our research article titled "Fishy business in Seattle: Salmon mislabeling fraud in sushi restaurants vs grocery stores" is published in PLOS ONE!
Thanks to the 50 Seattle Pacific University undergraduate researchers and SPU Biology faculty collaborators (Dr. Tim Nelson and Dr. Eric long) for their help to complete this project.
URL = https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311522
Oct 28, 2024
Celebrating the upcoming release of our publication "Fishy business in Seattle: Salmon mislabeling fraud in sushi restaurants vs grocery stores" in PLOS ONE. The study will be published on Nov 6, 2024.
October 7, 2024
Introducing the 2024-2025 Delgado lab members
Yenni Gaspar (senior)
Robynne Dona (sophomore)
Tina Le (sophomore)
Ben Sheirbon (senior
Dr. Tracie Delgado (PI)
September 27, 2024
Fall 2024 Delgado lab orientation is a success! The Delgado lab is excited to welcome three new undergraduate research students (Tina Lee, Robynne Dona, and Yenni Gaspar).
September 19, 2024
Dr. Tracie is the featured speaker on episode #57 of Matters Microbial on Microbe. On this podcast, she shared her scientific journey, her mentorship of undergrads at Seattle Pacific University, and her research on the use of metabolic inhibitors as antivirals.
https://www.microbe.tv/mm/mm-057/
September 13, 2024
Dr. Tracie Delgado was added to “The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists." Faculty names are added to the atlas after nomination. The atlas, hosted by the Fred Hutch, showcases the expertise, talents, and diversity of Hispanic and Latinx scientific faculty across the USA.
August 29, 2024
Dr. Tracie Delgado gives a community research seminar titled "Fishy Business in Seattle - Salmon mislabeling fraud in sushi restaurants and grocery stores" at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery.
June 18, 2024
Dr. Tracie Delgado is awarded a 3-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) R15 grant. This is Dr. Delgado's first federal grant and the largest grant her lab has received. The grant will fund the Delgado lab and her team of undergraduate student researchers as they aim to identify clinically relevant drugs that can be repurposed as antivirals.
June 7, 2024
Congrats to Lay Paw (B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology + Honors) and Sara Hartman (B.S in Physiology) on their graduation! It was a privilege to be your research mentor these past 2 years.
June 4, 2024
Delgado lab end of the 2023 - 2024 school year brunch. So proud of these three undergraduate research students for all their hard work and dedication in the lab.
June 4, 2024
Sara Hartman and Lay Paw with their Delgado lab graduation gifts (EBV giant microbe / Giant microbes mug)
May 3, 2024
Delgado lab group photo at the 22nd Erickson Research Conference at Seattle Pacific University.
May 3, 2024
Lay Paw, senior undergraduate student in the Delgado lab, presents her research at the 22nd Erickson Research Conference at Seattle Pacific University.
May 3, 2024
Sara Hartman, senior undergraduate student in the Delgado lab, presents her research at the 22nd Erickson Research Conference at Seattle Pacific University. Congratulations to Sara for winning the Top Oral Presentation award in the Biology category!
May 3, 2024
Ben Sheirbon, junior undergraduate student in the Delgado lab, presents his research at the 22nd Erickson Research Conference at Seattle Pacific University.
April 4, 2024
Dr. Tracie Delgado gives a research seminar for the Department of Biology at the University of Texas - Dallas.
March 1, 2024
Dr. Tracie Delgado officially promoted to FULL PROFESSOR at Seattle Pacific University!
Feb 22 , 2024
Dr. Tracie Delgado was awarded TENURE at Seattle Pacific University!
Nov 10, 2023
Lay Paw, senior undergraduate student in the Delgado lab, presents at the Murdock College Science Research Conference in Vancouver, WA.
Nov 8, 2023
Delgado collaborative manuscript is published in CELL. This manuscript discusses the persistent underrepresentation of Latina STEM faculty, and identifies solutions to help retain Latina faculty, especially during the professor tenure and promotion process.
Maggie Werner Washburne, JoAnn Trejo, Ruth Enid Zambrana, Maria Elena Zavala, Alice Martinic, Angelica Riestra, Tracie Delgado, Staci Edwards, Thelma Escobar, Denneal Jamison-McClung, Mariel Vazquez, Iset Vera, Michelle Guerra, Diana I. Marinez, Elma Gonzalez, Raymond L. Rodriguez. Early Career Latinas in STEM: Challenges and Solutions. Cell. 2023 Nov 9;186 (23):4985-4991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.10.016
Direct link = https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01132-7
Free access until Dec 29, 2023 link = https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1i3TWL7PXme7-
In April 2022, a group of Latina professors came together to honor Dr. Elma Gonzalez (my mentor at UCLA). Dr. Gonzalez was the first Latina to receive her PhD in the Biological Sciences and the first Latina STEM faculty in the University of California system! Together, we brainstormed and discussed the challenges early career Latinas face in STEM. We also came up with possible solutions that can help retain Latinas in the academic pipeline, especially the professor tenure and promotion process. This discussion lead to publication of this collaborative manuscript
May 16, 2023
The Delgado lab's first research article is now out in early release in the Journal of Virology!!!
Sarah A Clark, Angie Vazquez, Kelsey Furiya, Madeleine K Splattstoesser, Abdullah K Bashmail, Haleigh Schwartz, Makaiya Russell, Shun-Je Bhark, Osvaldo K Moreno, Morgan McGovern, Eric R Owsley, Timothy A Nelson, Erica L. Sanchez, and Tracie Delgado. Rewiring of the host cell metabolome and lipidome during lytic gammaherpesvirus infection is essential for infectious virus production. J Virol. 2023 May 16:e0050623. doi: 10.1128/jvi.00506-23. Epub ahead of print.
https://journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1128/jvi.00506-23?af=R
Dr. Delgado would like to thank all 10 undergraduate students (who led this study), from both her labs at
Seattle Pacific University and her previous institution
Northwest University, for all their hard work! Each student was given their own project and showed undergrads can do amazing science!!!
Delgado would like to also thank her collaborators...
Dr. Tim Nelson at Seattle Pacific for performing statistical analysis of the metabolomics and lipidomic data.
Dr. Erica Sanchez at University of Texas - Dallas and her graduate student Kevin Moreno at San Francisco State University for helping to analyze the data and for helping to write the paper.
May 5, 2023
Congratulations to Madeleine Splattstoesser for winning the Top Oral Presentation award in the Biology category at the SPU 21st annual Erickson Research conference!
April 24, 2023
Congratulations to Delgado lab alumni, Angie Vazquez, who will be attending University of Colorado - Denver this fall 2023. She will be pursuing a PhD in their Biomedical Sciences Program (BSP)!
Jan 31, 2023
Delgado lab releases pre-print of their first research manuscript. Best of all, the study was led by 10 undergraduate student authors!
Read at --> https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.30.526357v1
Nov 11, 2022
Madeleine Splattstoesser, senior undergraduate student in the Delgado lab, presents at the Murdock College Science Research Conference in Vancouver, WA.
Oct 28, 2022
Delgado gives keynote presentation on her research and mentoring strategies which promote diversity and inclusion in the sciences at the National Associate of Biology Teachers (NABT) national conference in Indianapolis, IN.
Oct 28, 2022
Delgado presents her research at the SACNAS National Conference in a session titled "Combating Viruses" along side fellow virologist Dr. Daniel Blanco-Melo, Dr. Lupita Montoya, and Dr. Florian Hladik in San Juan, PR.
SACNAS = Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native American's in the Sciences
Oct 13, 2022
Delgado gives a research seminar for the Department of Biology at San Francisco State University.
July 17, 2022
Delgado presents at the American Society of Virology (ASV) National conference in Madison, WI.
