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MDTP trainer Vatsan Raman enlists phages to fight antibiotic resistance

UW–Madison researchers identify new ways to address bacterial infections, which could accelerate alternatives to traditional antibiotics.

Congrats to MDTP trainer JD Sauer!

MDTP trainer JD Sauer has been recognized with a Vilas Associate Award!

Congrats to MDTP trainer Drew Hryckowian!

MDTP trainer (and alum!) Drew Hryckowian has been recognized with a Vilas Early-Career Investigator Award!

Congrats to Rhiannon Abrahams, PhD!

Rhiannon successfully defended her dissertation “Spatial and Epigenetic Mechanisms of AAV2 Genome Localization, Expression, and Rearrangement”.

MDTP trainer Jade Wang awarded 2026 Steenbock Professorship

Jue Wang, professor of bacteriology, has been awarded the 2026 Steenbock Professorship in Microbiological Sciences.

Congrats to Katie Cataldo, PhD!

Katie successfully defended her dissertation “Media Matters: Building Better Models to Understand Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum Lifecycle Transitions”.

Congrats to Courtney Deblois, PhD!

Courtney successfully defended her dissertation “Characterizing the dynamics of Salmonella enterica serovar Cerro on a Wisconsin dairy farm”.

Congrats to Ziyun Ye, PhD!

Ziyun successfully defended her dissertation “Three-Dimensional Chromatin Organization of Latent Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Poises the Virus for Reactivation”.

Congrats to Cody Martin, PhD!

Cody successfully defended his dissertation “Decoding the language of viral genomes with evolutionary-scale, context-aware genome language models”.

Congrats to Jassim Al-Oboudi, PhD!

Jassim successfully defended his dissertation “Population genomics and genome evolution in a cosmopolitan yeast”.