Zoe, Ciera, Jack, and Priyanshi presented posters on their research at the recent SDSU Student Symposium (S3)! The largest student symposium across SDSU, this was a prime event that brought together student researchers from across campus, with over 400 presentations. Congrats to all Sethuraman Lab presenters!

Our programmer and Sethuraman Lab alum, Trevor Mugoya received the AGBT's 2026 NextGen Leadership Award at the annual general meeting in Orlando, FL recently. Congratulations to Trevor!

Dr. Sethuraman recently delivered the keynote lecture at the 2026 S3 Awards Ceremony in Montezuma Hall, San Diego State University. Commemorating 10 years of the Sethuraman Lab, his lecture was titled -  "Science of Everything, Everywhere, Everyhow"
Abstract: As the child of two scientists, I have always found that innate itch to question everything, everywhere, and to answer them everyhow. From observing gravid turtles in marshlands along the Mississippi and Missouri, to nail-polish marked larval lady beetles competing for aphids, to clonal 'zombie' wasps that control the brains of their host beetles in my "garage" lab, to assessing disparities among evolutionary biologists in our scientific societies, to discrepancies and biases in our data and how we handle them, to stromatolite mats in the Anza Borrego Desert, to my classrooms. The questions are endless, as are the answers. In this lecture, I will describe how to find that passion to ask the right questions, and how I've trained mentees in my lab to do the same. 
Do check out his lecture here!

Arun has a new op-ed on missing data problems in population genomics and statistical methods to address them, now out in the January 2026 issue of G3. Do check it out here.