Applications for the 2025 phage pathway scholar cohort are now closed!
The Phage Pathways Scholar (PPS) program is a three-year initiative to engage at least 60 selected undergraduate and graduate students to cultivate a new generation of scientists at the intersection of microbial ecology and renewable energy. The program runs for 11 months every year. Each year scholars from the cohort will participate in IMG/M workshops at the Joint Genome Institute, lab visits and phage discovery workshops at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Summer internships at Sandia National Laboratory (for 2 selected scholars), phage-related microbiology curricula at UC Davis, San Diego State University, San Francisco State University, a phage pathways scholar symposium as well as professional development workshops on career planning, writing skills, and leadership in STEM with guest speakers from the nexus of microbiology and renewable energy. The program aims to provide a stipend to the chosen scholars for every engagement opportunity.
If you are interested, please email us at sgarsevanyan@sfsu.edu.
If you would like to apply for Cohort 2026 please apply early fall.