MDTP trainer Kerri Coon a 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award recipient!
Dr. Kerri Coon, Bacteriology, honored as one of UW’s finest educators!
Dr. Kerri Coon, Bacteriology, honored as one of UW’s finest educators!
Betül Kaçar will be leading a group, including MDTP trainers Jean-Michel Ané and Brian Pfleger, investigating the origins and evolution of nitrogenase with generous support from the Keck Foundation. Congrats!
Justin successfully defended his dissertation “Exploring the Impact of Abiotic and Biotic Stresses on Microbial Community Dynamics and Cryptic Secondary Metabolite Gene Cluster Activation”.
Thy successfully defended her dissertation “The Role of Commensal Bacteria in Fungal Defense: Understanding Antifungal Mechanisms of the Human Skin Microbiome”.
Joe successfully defended his dissertation “Using oral swabs in dairy cows to correlate the rumen microbiome with production metrics and improve genetic selection”.
Ibrahim successfully defended his dissertation “Understanding the impact of SES on the human gut microbiome in a Wisconsin cohort”.
Congratulations to Professor Vatsan Raman, who has been named as the first S.C. Fang Professor.
Ruth Y. Isenberg, PhD ’23, has been awarded the 2024 Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize. The international prize is awarded annually “for outstanding PhD work in the field of bacterial molecular biology.” In the prize’s 29-year history, Dr. Isenberg becomes the third UW-Madison recipient and the first recipient from a laboratory in the School of …
Brian successfully defended his dissertation “Investigated the Role of Antibody-Dependent Cellular Phagocytosis (ADCP) in Protection Against HIV-1”.
Chutikarn successfully defended her dissertation “Systematic genome-wide discovery of host factors governing bacteriophage infectivity”.