News
News
July 2025: The Cyphert Lab turns one! Thanks to all of the students working in our lab and our accomplishments, it has been an exciting year and looking forward to more exciting discoveries!
June 2025: Welcome to Marissa and Gillian! Marissa and Gillian are undergraduate students in the SURF and Bioengineering REU program. We look forward to hosting you this summer!
April 2025: Congratulations to lab members: Tanya, Aryak, Yumie, Julie, Arlene, and Sidhant for our lab's first publication in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance! Great work team!
April 2025: Welcome to Maryam! Maryam is an undergraduate student in Nanoengineering and is a MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Scholar.
April 2025: Welcome to Bryce! Bryce is an MS Plan 1 student in Bioengineering and will be completing a rotation in the lab during spring quarter.
March 2025: Erika's postdoctoral manuscript is accepted for publication in Sustainable Microbiology!
January 2025: Erika gives a talk in the SSPPS seminar series at the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
January 2025: Welcome to Krista and Avani! Krista and Avani are MS Plan 1 students in Bioengineering and will be completing a rotation in the lab during winter quarter.
October 2024: Erika gives a talk in the Biomechanics and Medical Devices seminar series at UCSD MAE department.
October 2024: Erika's essay on "How immersion in a different culture made me a better researcher" was published in Science  - Working Life!
October 2024: First lab meeting!
September 2024: Welcome to Aryak! Aryak is a MS Plan 1 student in Bioengineering and is completing a rotation in the lab in the fall quarter.
September 2024: Erika's postdoctoral manuscript is accepted for publication in JBMR!
September 2024: Welcome to Tanya! Tanya is a MD/PhD student in Bioengineering and is completing a rotation in the lab in the fall quarter.
September 2024: Welcome to Yumie! Yumie is a first-year PhD student in Bioengineering and is completing a rotation in the lab in the fall quarter.
August 2024: Welcome to Arlene, Julie, and Sidhant, the inaugural members of the Cyphert lab!
July 2024: The Cyphert lab officially opens
June 2024: Erika's postdoctoral manuscript is accepted for publication at JBMR Plus!
October 2023: Erika gives a talk at the Fall Meeting of the Northern California Branch of the American Society of Microbiology in Livermore
October 2023: Erika gives an oral platform presentation on her postdoctoral work on FMTs and bone strength at BMES in Seattle
September 2023: Erika returns to Poland to re-ignite collaborations with Fulbright Polska and Warsaw University of Technology colleagues
August 2023: Erika gives a talk at San Francisco State University Biology Department
April 2023: Erika commits to joining UCSD Bioengineering Dept starting July 2024