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 student Kris Kieft successfully defended his dissertation, “Metagenomics-enabled viral ecology to advance our understanding of human and environmental microbiomes”.
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 from alien to familiar. Astrobiologists study how life originated here on Earth to better understand how life might evolve elsewhere …
MDTP student Jason Saba (Landick lab) has been awarded an NIH F31 fellowship! Congrats, Jason!
Researchers are uncovering the complex mechanisms by which human gut bacteria accomplish a variety of functions, from transforming compounds derived from food into nutrition for the host to producing molecules that impact human behavior and performance. The Venturelli Lab has now overturned prior knowledge about how polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs) mediate the fitness and community-level interactions of Bacteroides …
Congrats to MDTP students Anna Gregory, Kayley Manuel, Damayanti Rodriguez-Ramos, Kathryn Schmidt, Holly Nichols, as well as incoming student Joie Ling on their NSF GRFP awards! Congrats to Jassim Al-Oboudi on his honorable mention! What a great showing from MDTP students!
Anna Huttenlocher, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Microbiology and Immunology, will be receiving a Hilldale Award for her contributions to teaching, research and service. Congrats!
MDTP student Charlotte Francoeur successfully defended her dissertation, “The ecology of secondary microbial symbionts: Exploring the diversity and function of bacterial and viral associations with fungus-growing ants”.
MDTP student Madison Cox successfully defended her dissertation, “Influencing rumen microbial communities to improve bovine milk production efficiency”.
MDTP student Chelsea Crooks successfully defended her dissertation “Defining factors that influence Zika and dengue virus pathogenic potential”
We are so excited to welcome our new students for fall 2022! Heather Emery | Jessica Petrey | Angel Hernandez-Viera | Joie Ling | Rachel Rovinsky | Amelia Hansen | My Tran | Jackie Spieles | James Kosmopoulos | Cynthia Aguilar | Jenna Webb | Jacob Hotvedt | Selymar Peña-Rivera | Elena Garncarz (DA Zamanian …