MDTP student Carolina Mendoza Cavazos successfully defended her dissertation “Diarrheal Diseases Caused by Eukaryotic Microbes: From Murine Models to their Transcriptomes”.
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Federico Rey named ASM Distinguished Lecturer
The American Society for Microbiology has announced the ASM Distinguished Lecturer (ASMDL) Roster for 2022-2023. MDTP Trainer Federico Rey has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer. Congrats!
Tu Anh Huynh explores the mysteries of Listeria
Tu-Anh Huynh spends much of her time tracking tricksters that alter their shape and function to sur- vive in extreme conditions. In other words, she studies bacteria. Unique among such change artists, the pathogen called Listeria monocytogenes (listeria) …
Congrats to Edna Chiang, PhD!
MDTP student Edna Chiang successfully defended her dissertation “Gut microbiome response to nutritional changes in a high fat diet mouse model and a ground squirrel hibernator”.
Congrats to Phill Huss, PhD!
MDTP student Phil Huss successfully defended his dissertation “Using Deep Mutational Scanning to Understand and Engineer Host Specificity in Bacteriophages”
Congrats to MDTP trainer Karthik Anantharaman!
Congrats to Karthik Anantharaman for his American Society for Microbiology Early Career Award for Environmental Research!
Congrats to MDTP trainers Andy Mehle, Nate Sherer and Tom Friedrich!
Congrats to MDTP trainers Andy Mehle and Nate Sherer on Romnes award, and Tom Friedrich on his Kellett mid-career award!
Congrats to Kris Kieft, PhD!
MDTP student Kris Kieft successfully defended his dissertation, “Metagenomics-enabled viral ecology to advance our understanding of human and environmental microbiomes”.
MDTP trainer Betül Kaçar co-leads NASA astrobiology study
Announced by NASA today, a new collaboration of astrobiology researchers across the country working together under a Research Coordination Network called LIFE will spend the next five years dedicating their efforts to understanding this journey …
Congrats to MDTP student Jason Saba on his NIH fellowship!
MDTP student Jason Saba (Landick lab) has been awarded an NIH F31 fellowship! Congrats, Jason!