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Congrats to MDTP alum Jason Saba!

Jason Saba, PhD, was just awarded the Sternberg Prize for best US PhD thesis.

Research Fellow – Gastroenterology and Hepatology

The Hecht Lab at Mayo Clinic is seeking a highly motivated, creative, and collaborative postdoctoral research fellow. The successful candidate will have a strong interest in basic and translational research focused on how the gut microbiome influences gastrointestinal and liver diseases, and how diet can be leveraged to shape microbial function and disease outcomes. Aaron Hecht, …

Congrats to Madeline Topf, PhD!

Madeline successfully defended her dissertation “Evolutionary genomics of Gardnerella spp.”.

Congrats to Xueer Qiu, PhD!

Xueer successfully defended her dissertation “Mapping molecular determinants of yellow fever virus virulence and attenuation”.

Congrats to Nayanna Mercado-Soto, PhD!

Nayanna successfully defended her dissertation “Innate immune regulation during wound healing and infection in zebrafish”.

MDTP trainers Adam Bailey and Kinjal Majumder receive Ann Palmenberg award!

Ozcam lab recruiting

Mustafa Ozcam is recruiting for his new lab at the University of Maryland School of medicine, focusing on early-life diet, functional capacity of the gut microbiome, and immune tolerance.

MDTP alum Ashley Shade named ASM Editor-in-Chief

Ashley Shade is a the new editor-in-chief for mSystems.

Postdoc opportunity A University o fMassachusetts, Lowell in Palacios Lab

The Palacios group at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to focus on the gut microbiome and Alzheimer’s disease epidemiology.  Our group has a close and longstanding collaboration Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center.  We welcome candidates with strong quantitative and microbiome analytic skills and an interest in brain …

MDTP trainer Jean-Michel Ane helps farmers reduce fertilizer use

UW innovations are helping farmers produce crops with less fertilizer. A pause in federal funds is threatening the research.