Author: ttheim

Congrats to Katie Barnes, PhD!

Katie successfully defended her dissertation “Arginine Metabolism and Toxoplasma gondii: An Arginase 2 Knockout Fibroblast Model for Probing Parasite Infection Dynamics Under Host Metabolic Constraints”.

MDTP trainer Victor Ujor celebrated!

In honor of Black History Month, we are celebrating the accomplishments of several Black leaders in the Midwest and their contributions toward a cleaner energy future.  MDTP trainer has been selected as a Black leader in clean energy and climate

Science Lead position at Zaytounic

Zaytounic is seeking a hands-on Scientific Lead to own and drive all scientific R&D around detoxification of olive-mill wastewater, advanced filtration, biochar valorization, and PHA biopolymer production. This is a core leadership role in an early-stage climate-tech startup, combining lab work, experimental design, and team leadership with strategic input into the company’s technology roadmap.combining experimental …

Postdoc position at NIAID/NIH in Manthiram lab

A postdoctoral position on understanding the mechanism of human inflammatory oropharyngeal disorders is available in the Oropharyngeal Mucosal Immunology Unit in NIAID/NIH, headed by Dr. Kalpana Manthiram in Bethesda, Maryland. Our laboratory investigates inflammatory oral and tonsil diseases in patients as well as immune responses to respiratory pathogens in the tonsils and adenoids, using high-dimensional …

Postdoc position at NIAID/NIH in Manthiram lab

A postdoctoral position on understanding the genetic basis for human autoinflammatory oropharyngeal disorders is available in the Oropharyngeal Mucosal Immunology Unit at NIAID/NIH, headed by Dr. Kalpana Manthiram in Bethesda, Maryland. Our laboratory investigates inflammatory tonsillar and mucosal diseases and performs complex genomic analyses as well as functional and immunologic assays to understand the mechanism …

MDTP trainer Jason Peters and MDTP alumna Amy Banta bolster bacteria for biofuels

The Peters lab has patented novel genetic tools to accelerate biofuel production.

Postdoc opportunity in Yildiz lat at UC-Santa Cruz

The Yildiz Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar to investigate the mechanisms, regulation, and consequences of bacterial biofilm formation using Vibrio cholerae. The laboratory integrates bacterial genetics, biochemistry, signal transduction, functional genomics, and quantitative imaging to define how regulatory networks control biofilm development and associated phenotypes. The …

Congrats to MDTP trainer Anna Huttenlocher!

MDTP trainer Anna Huttenlocher has been awarded the Legacy Keynote Lecture award from the Society for Leukocyte Biology!

MDTP trainers Federico Rey and Jade Wang honored at CALS investiture ceremony!

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences honors faculty members who have earned named professorships for their research and scholarly accomplishments.

MDTP trainer JD Sauer elected to the American Academy of Microbiology!

This year, 145 scientists were nominated from around the world.