Very excited to share this paper! It was wonderful to work with this group of authors and learn more about #bryophyte ecology from ecosystems around the world. Bryophytes are the 2nd largest group of plants but are often overlooked in research on water-C-N cycles at global scales

An interesting student-led study focused on examining microbes sent to the stratosphere, and a great collaboration with KCRiceUF. It is a different from what I normally do, but I really enjoyed working on this project: sciendo.com/article/10.247…

It is indeed a sad day! My heart is crying aloud, and my mind cannot comprehend. 😢

Had a great evening helping to decorate the lab door! It was a fun bonding time with my students. 💙 Rachel Kalicharan

Team MCS UF is ready to rock it! Visit us at Booth #2030 to learn about our MCS graduate programs—shaping the future of science! #abrcms2024 UF Microbiology

Adam Rivers (USDA-ARS) and I are hiring a joint postdoc to on a microfluidics and sequencing based project to better understand synthetic and natural microbiome community dynamics and generate data to build AI/ML models to infer interspp. interactions. Hit me up if interested!

Get a First Look! 👇 🌾🌍 Triple Threat: How Global Fungal Rice and Wheat Pathogens Utilize Comparable Pathogenicity Mechanisms to Drive Host Colonization doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-0… Rachel Kalicharan Jessie Fernandez

I'm so proud of my student winning second place on the poster presentation at Plant Science symposium. 💙 Plant Science Council at UF UF Microbiology

#UF ranked among world’s top universities in number of patents news.ufl.edu/2025/03/nai-pa… 💪🐊

Join us in congratulating UF Microbiology's Nian Wang on becoming an National Academy of Inventors senior member! More on Wang and this honor 🔗 go.ufl.edu/r8pqn8y

🎉 The overall winner of this year’s #DanceYourPhD contest is Sulo Roukka, who meshed lab experiments with dance moves under flashing lights as sequined lab mates analyzed hot chilies and mint with fancy footwork. Watch the winning work and learn more about the category

Great Fern lab representation at #fps2025 FPS_FloridaPhytoPath UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences UF IFAS Solutions UF Microbiology Huge congrats to Rachel Kalicharan on winning first place for oral presentation! So proud! 💓👏

Learning about HBL disease and exciting research being conducted at UFIFAS_IndianRiverREC 🔬🌍👏 #fps2025 FPS_FloridaPhytoPath UF Microbiology

I found Nemo at UFIFAS_IndianRiverREC 😀 🐟 Very cool aquaculture research lab! Thank you for sharing your exciting research with us. #FPS2025 FPS_FloridaPhytoPath UF Microbiology Rachel Kalicharan

How can a one-millimeter worm help understand how bacteria affect neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's? Watch the full video to learn how the Daniel Czyz, PhD Lab from UF Microbiology uses C. elegans to examine how bacteria influence protein stability! 📹🔗: bit.ly/4kDmxiH.