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Congrats to Tiffany Harris-Jones, PhD!

Tiffany successfully her dissertation “Influences of peptidoglycan on Neisseria-host interactions in an in vivo mouse model using Neisseria musculi“.

Congrats to Madison Youngblom, PhD!

Madison successfully defended her dissertation “Identifying signatures of bacterial adaptation to the pathogenic niche using evolutionary genomics”.

Congrats to Ophelia Venturelli!

MDTP trainer Ophelia Venturelli has been recognized with a UW early career innovator award!

Daven Khana highlighted by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

MDTP student Daven Khana is highlighted for his work with Zymomonas mobilis with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center in Daniel Amador-Noguez’s lab.

Congrats to Mark Horton, PhD!

Mark successfully defended his dissertation “Biofilm Formation and Cell Wall Pathways Involved in Candida auris Skin Colonization and Invasive Infection”.

Congrats to My Tran!

MDTP student My Tran placed second in the Morgridge Center’s Bioethics cartoon contest.  Congrats, My!

Congrats to Sofia Romero, PhD!

Sofia successfully defended her dissertation “Getting to the core: single cell analysis of the nucleocytoplasmic trafficking dynamics of hepatitis B virus”.

Congrats to MDTP trainer Vatsan Raman for his NSF Career Award!

MDTP trainer Vatsan Raman, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, was selected to receive an National Science Foundation CAREER award this year. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and …

Congrats to Lauren Lucas, PhD!

Lauren successfully defended her dissertation “Bile Acid Deconjugations, Transformations, and (Re)conjugations by Human Gut Bacteria”.

MDTP to welcome 16 new students in Fall 2023!

MDTP is happy to announce that 16 new students will be joining in fall 2023 – Rodrigo Cuellar, Cynthia Feng, Peter Finnegan, Caroline Haynie, Gillian Hughes, Aditya Kumar Pal, Caiti Lahue, Nischala Nadig, Sarah Nelson, Nicolas Pereira, Travis Worley, Tony Yao, Grace Enzien (DA-Donohue), Ebru Guver (DA-Sperandio), Dinesh Kumar (DA-Anantharaman), and Bobby Liu (DA-Wang).