Tracie Delgado

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

Yes! And thank you!

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

Two senior students posing with their microbe mug.

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 🧪

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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. ❤️

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

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

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 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

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

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 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

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Latina scientist in front of a sequencing machine

Scientist mixing a sequencing cart

Scientist adding a sequencing flow cell

Scientist adding a sequencing cartridge into the sequencing machine

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 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

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

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

Two women scientist talking in the lab

Two women scientist prepping samples in the lab

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 🧪

Tape station machine and a laptop

Data showing rRNA bands

Data showing rRNA band peaks

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👩🏻‍🔬 🧪

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

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 🧪

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

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

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. 👩🏻‍🔬

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.

Young male standing next to a large TV screen. The screen shows data on the antiviral effects of FDA approved metabolic drugs.

Super proud of my undergraduate research student who presented at the @aaas.org national scientific meeting. The Delgado lab is currently identifying FDA approved metabolic drugs that can be repurposed as antivirals. #AAASmtg #Delgadolab 🧪

Three young women holding a binder that says “Delgado lab” in a office

Celebrating my three fabulous undergraduate research students on “International Day of Women and Girls in Science”. It’s been a honor to have them in my research lab and support them as they discover new antiviral therapies! #womeninscience #11Feb 🧪

Definitely very taxing and will lead to burn out if don’t have the support

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While I hope this gets overturned, if it does remain a 15% indirect cost rate, universities will need to revise their tenure and promotion requirements. Young faculty will not be able to achieve tenure and produce as many publications under this new structure. 🧪

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