Congrats to Krizia Perez Medina, PhD!
MDTP student Krizia Perez Medina successfully defended her dissertation”The gonococcal peptidoglycanase interactome and its contributions to protein function, cell morphology, and survival”.
MDTP student Krizia Perez Medina successfully defended her dissertation”The gonococcal peptidoglycanase interactome and its contributions to protein function, cell morphology, and survival”.
The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus has long been known to cause infections in humans, ranging from mild skin infections to pneumonia to more serious infections of the heart. In high-income countries, it’s the leading cause of a sometimes-fatal condition known as infective endocarditis, involving inflammation of the heart’s valves or lining.
The Genome Writers guild (GWG) and Rosalind Franklin Society have recognized Dr. Betül Kaçar of the University of Wisconsin–Madison as the 2022 Runner-Up for the Rosalind Franklin Medal for her groundbreaking use of experimental systems to study the coevolution of cellular life and the environment of Earth in both extinct and extant lifeforms. Kaçar’s research …
MDTP student Carolina Mendoza Cavazos successfully defended her dissertation “Diarrheal Diseases Caused by Eukaryotic Microbes: From Murine Models to their Transcriptomes”.
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 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) has long fascinated Huynh with its ability to grow in cold refrigerators and garden soil. It thrives under preservation and …
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”.
MDTP student Phil Huss successfully defended his dissertation “Using Deep Mutational Scanning to Understand and Engineer Host Specificity in Bacteriophages”
Congrats to Karthik Anantharaman for his American Society for Microbiology Early Career Award for Environmental Research!
Congrats to MDTP trainers Andy Mehle and Nate Sherer on Romnes award, and Tom Friedrich on his Kellett mid-career award!