Congrats to MDTP student Shruthi Magesh, recipient of the DasGupta Award!
Shruthi Magesh is the B. R. DasGupta Graduate Scholarship Recipient! Congrats, Shruthi!
Shruthi Magesh is the B. R. DasGupta Graduate Scholarship Recipient! Congrats, Shruthi!
MDTP student Jin Yang successfully defended his dissertation “New insights into the expanded family of (pp)pGpp alarmones”.
What do we prune to stay aligned with our values, families, and careers? Today, MDTP alumna Ashley Shade, Michigan State University Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center scientist, shares how balancing a career and motherhood requires daily pruning and sacrifice.
For graduate students of color in the sciences, this campus community offers resources and the support and feel of a family.
What happens when we get comfortable with uncertainty? Today, we talked to Audrey Gasch, professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center scientist, about all the factors that propelled her from an undergraduate studying biochemistry at UW–Madison to the leader of the Center for Genomic Science Innovation. She shares …
In her lab at the University of Connecticut, Kat Milligan-McClellan ’99, PhD’09 peers deep into the gut microbiomes of fish, looking for clues that could lead to advancements in medicine and environmental engineering – advancements that could benefit native communities like her hometown of Kotzebue. But for much of her time as a UW–Madison student, …
Mary Hannah Swaney was recently awarded a NIH F31 NRSA fellowship! Congrats, Mary Hannah!
The support of the Department of Energy Early Career Research Program award allowed my team and me to gain a better understanding of how nature has optimized plant biomass degradation – using a model, natural system.
MDTP student Susan Hromada successfully defended her dissertation “Impact of human gut microbes on Clostridioides difficile growth and antibiotic susceptibility in vitro”.
Betül Kaçar is a self-described gözü kara. The Turkish term refers to people from the Black Sea region of the country, but it has another translation as well. “It means bold-eyed or fearless,” says Kaçar, an assistant professor in the Department of Bacteriology. “It means that I don’t know my place. I never did, and I …