March 2025 - Great presentations were delivered by Grace Oram, Naomi Putirka, and Timara Vereen at the annual Northern California Parasitology conference held at SFSU. Timara Vereen won the top student price, the Balmuth Horen Award.
December 2025 - Congratulations to Maxwell Newton for successfully defending his thesis and graduating!
November 2024 - Tick Swarm! Swei lab students came out en mass to the Entomological Society of America #EntSoc24 meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Mariah, Timara, Yuri, Alex, Anahei, and Gerardo presented posters at the MUVE poster competition to rave reviews. Great job everyone! And congratulations to Alexander Esquivel for receiving second place in the MUVE student poster competition! 🎉
August 2024 - Big congratulations to Mariah Cuyson and Timara Vereen on receiving ARCS scholarships to support their research!
May 24, 2024 - Congratulations to Alice Truong and Shannon Summers for successfully defending their master's thesis. Both were also honored with Distinguished Graduate Student awards as well!
August 26, 2023 - A big welcome to several new lab members. Gerardo Ramos, Anahei Lara, and Timara Vereen all joined our lab as Master's students. We also welcome a new postdoc, Dr. Heather Broughton! We are thrilled to have you all join the lab!
March 16, 2023 - The Swei lab and other labs at SFSU and the California Academy of Sciences hosted the 5th annual Bay Area EEID (BAEEID) conference in Cesar Chavez Student Union. Over 130 joined us for a day of research talks, lightning talks, and poster sessions.
January 2023 - We are excited to welcome four new graduate students to the lab. Welcome to the lab, Yuri Mahmoud, Alexander Esquiterval, Mariah Cuyson, and Maxwell Newton!
December 2022 - What an exciting end of the year. We had three students successfully defend their master's theses. Congratulations to Grace Shaw, Jacoby Clark, and Vincent Mai for excellent presentations!