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Tracie Delgado

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#Virology #Professor at Seattle Pacific University studying 1) how #herpesviruses cause #cancer & 2) salmon fraud in Seattle. #Scientist #Educator #Latina #UCLAalumni #sacnas #1stGen #DEI #virologist www.traciedelgadolab.com

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Dec 21

I have NEWS to share! A research study I lead uncovering #salmonfraud rates in Seattle WA was recently published in @plos.org. Many thanks to the 50 @SeattlePacific undergrad researchers & bio faculty collaborators for their help to complete this project. (1/n)

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Fishy business in Seattle: Salmon mislabeling fraud in sushi restaurants vs grocery stores

Salmon is the most commonly consumed finfish in the United States of America (USA), and the mislabeling of salmon is a widespread problem. Washington State is a global supplier of wild-caught Pacific ...

journals.plos.org

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Jun 7

Yes thanks!

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Jun 6

Graduation festivities today at Seattle Pacific University. Super proud of my senior undergraduate research students who are graduating tomorrow. Will miss them bunches! #professorlife

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 30

Yes! And thank you!

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 30

End of year lab celebration with my amazing undergraduate lab students 🎉. Will dearly miss my two graduating senior students 🥹. I gifted them a microbe mug to remember the time in the lab 😃. #professorlife #Delgadolab #undergraduateresearch 🧪

4 undergraduate students with Dr Delgado (professor) at a restaurant

Two senior students posing with their microbe mug.

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 18

Thanks!

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 17

I would also like to thank the “Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship” for helping fund my participation in this “Viruses and Cells” GRC conference. ❤️

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 17

Seattle Pacific University may be the smallest university represented at this conference, but we have lots of amazing discoveries to share. 🥼

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 17

Off to present my lab’s research at the prestigious “Viruses and Cells” Gordan conference in Barcelona, Spain. Thanks to all my undergraduate research students at Seattle Pacific University who helped generate the data I am presenting. They are amazing! 🎉 #professorlife 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

Dr Tracie Delgado, Professor of Biology at Seattle Pacific University holding a research poster tube at the airport

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 9

Thanks!

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 8

Thank You!

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 8

Thank you!

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 8

Thanks!

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 8

Thanks!

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · May 8

Honored to have been selected as this year’s FACULTY SCHOLAR OF THE YEAR at Seattle Pacific University 🎉. I would like to thank the Delgado lab undergraduate research students & my research collaborators for their contributions/help. More info about my lab at traciedelgadolab.com 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

Professor Delgado holding up a Faculty Scholar of the Year award certificate

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Mar 21

Thanks!

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Mar 21

My lab’s RNA-seq samples are in! Thanks to my collaborator Dr @escobarthelma.bsky.social at UW and @uwiscrm.bsky.social for their help! Now we wait for data 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Latina scientist in front of a sequencing machine

Scientist adding a sequencing cartridge into the sequencing machine

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Mar 11

Library prep has like 200 steps and I have 32 samples so it is very extensive 🤪

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Mar 11

Two Latina PIs (#SeattlePacificUniversity &
@uwiscrm.bsky.social) back at the bench for a special collaboration, prepping Illumina libraries for RNA-seq. Dr. Thelma Escobar (@escobarthelma.bsky.social) & I went to college together. Thankful for her help in this project. #ProfessorLife 🧪

Two women scientist posing for a picture in front of a lab bench

Two women scientist prepping samples in the lab

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Mar 7

Learned a new technique today at the Escobar lab @uwmedicine.bsky.social. RNA quality ✅ was great after tape station analysis. Next week is cDNA library prep before RNA-seq. #professorlife #latina #scientist👩🏻‍🔬 🧪

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Mar 5

Congrats to Delgado lab researcher Ben Sheirbon for winning the #AAASmtg FIRST PLACE 🥇 undergraduate e-poster prize for his research presentation in the “Developmental Bio, Genetics, & Immunology” section @aaas.org. His name will be in @science.org! I am a #proudPI #science 🧪

Male undergraduate student presenting his research on a electronic poster on a screen

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Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Feb 27

Was a honor to speak at the @wsupullman.bsky.social SACNAS chapter meeting today about my academic journey. I also had the pleasure to meet Jimena, the current WSU SACNAS chapter president. #professorlife #representationmatters

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Feb 26

Aghhh I am about to board a plane in 2 hours.

Tracie Delgado @traciedelgado.bsky.social · Feb 26

Looking forward to my visit at Washington State University the next few days. Thank you
@philmixter.bsky.social
for the kind invitation! I’ll be speaking at the WSU SACNAS chapter meeting today and then giving a research seminar tomorrow at the School of Molecular Biosciences. 👩🏻‍🔬

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Patrick S. Mitchell @psmitchej.bsky.social · Feb 21

In light of policies to defund biomedical research, and with judicial hearings happening today, we hope to highlight the many ways biomedical research improves people's lives, and to convey how damaging the proposed cuts would be... not just for us researchers, but for everyone.

Jakob von Moltke @jmoltke.bsky.social · Feb 21

Patrick Mitchell (@psmitchej.bsky.social), Thornton Thompson and I wrote an OpEd, with support from 650+ biomedical researchers across Washington State (450+ at time of submission).

www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comm...

List: www.moltkelab.com/s/NIH-OpEd-S...

Comment: Pending cuts to medical research would harm all in state | HeraldNet.com

As UW medical scientists, we urge Washingtonians to defend the NIH’s life-saving research funding.

www.heraldnet.com

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