We are looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in bacterial molecular genetics, biochemistry or infectious diseases to help out with a project aimed at the molecular characterization of bacterial metabolites involved in microbe-microbe interactions …
Month: July 2022
Congrats to Dr. Betül Kaçar, runner-up for the Rosalind Franklin Medal
The Genome Writers guild (GWG) and Rosalind Franklin Society have recognized Dr. Betül Kaçar of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the 2022 Runner-Up for the Rosalind Franklin Medal for her groundbreaking use of experimental systems …
Congrats to Carolina Mendoza Cavazos, PhD!
MDTP student Carolina Mendoza Cavazos successfully defended her dissertation “Diarrheal Diseases Caused by Eukaryotic Microbes: From Murine Models to their Transcriptomes”.
Senior Program Officer for COSF Medical Research Program
Circle of Service Foundation (“COSF” or the “Foundation”) makes grants in the areas of Community Services, Education, Jewish Community, Medical Research, Violence Reduction, Climate, and Voting Rights. COSF seeks a Senior Program Officer possessing the …
Federico Rey named ASM Distinguished Lecturer
The American Society for Microbiology has announced the ASM Distinguished Lecturer (ASMDL) Roster for 2022-2023. MDTP Trainer Federico Rey has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer. Congrats!
Tu Anh Huynh explores the mysteries of Listeria
Tu-Anh Huynh spends much of her time tracking tricksters that alter their shape and function to sur- vive in extreme conditions. In other words, she studies bacteria. Unique among such change artists, the pathogen called Listeria monocytogenes (listeria) …
Congrats to Edna Chiang, PhD!
MDTP student Edna Chiang successfully defended her dissertation “Gut microbiome response to nutritional changes in a high fat diet mouse model and a ground squirrel hibernator”.
Microbiome Center at University of Chicago – Program Administrator
The Microbiome Center, a UChicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory has a job opening for an administrator. TMC is a network of researchers collaborating to explore the role of microbes across environments. …
Congrats to Phill Huss, PhD!
MDTP student Phil Huss successfully defended his dissertation “Using Deep Mutational Scanning to Understand and Engineer Host Specificity in Bacteriophages”