University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: December 2023

Postdoc position at USDA-ARS in Albany, CA

USDA-ARS headquarters funded postdoctoral fellowship working with Shiga toxins/ STEC strains in development of antibodies and diagnostic assays against them.  This position is available with Dr. Xiaohua He in Albany, CA.  The candidate has to be a US citizen and have received their PhD within the last 4 years.

Congrats to Elise Cowley, PhD!

Elise successfully defended her dissertation “Unraveling the Role of the Human Gut Microbiome in Three Conditions: Colorectal Cancer, Group B Streptococcus Colonization, and Multiple Sclerosis”.

Congrats to Mary Hannah Swaney, PhD!

Mary Hannah successfully defended her dissertation “Metabolite-Mediated Interactions in the Human Skin Microbiome”.

Positions available at Terragia Biofuels

Terragia (terragiabiofuel.com) is a startup founded in October, 2022 dedicated to development and commercial deployment of low-cost technology for production of cellulosic biofuels. Built on decades of pioneering research led by Dartmouth Professor Lee Lynd, Terragia’s unique consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) technology has documented potential to be cost-competitive with fossil fuels while realizing net removal of …

Congrats to Evan Hutchison, PhD!

Evan successfully defended his dissertation “Investigating the role of gut microbiome interpersonal variation and short-chain fatty acids in cardiometabolic disease.”

Post doc opportunity at Virgina Commonwealth University

A Post-Doctoral Fellow position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Jason A. Carlyon in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Virginia Commonwealth University.  The successful candidate will participate in NIH-funded projects studying the obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen, Orientia tsutsugamushi. Projects include O. tsutsugamushi modulation of multiple host cell processes including immunity, metabolism, membrane …

Post doc opportunity at Virginia Commonwealth University

A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Jason A. Carlyon in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Virginia Commonwealth University.  The successful candidate will participate in NIH-funded projects studying the arthropod vector-transmitted obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen, Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Projects include A. phagocytophilum interactions with membrane trafficking pathways, lipid signaling, exosome …

Congrats to Jason Zuke, PhD!

Jason successfully defended his dissertation “Production, dynamics, and DNA binding capabilities of Bacillus subtilis natural competence associated pili”.