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UW–Madison researchers identify new ways to address bacterial infections, which could accelerate alternatives to traditional antibiotics.

MDTP trainer JD Sauer has been recognized with a Vilas Associate Award!

MDTP trainer (and alum!) Drew Hryckowian has been recognized with a Vilas Early-Career Investigator Award!

Rhiannon successfully defended her dissertation “Spatial and Epigenetic Mechanisms of AAV2 Genome Localization, Expression, and Rearrangement”.

Jue Wang, professor of bacteriology, has been awarded the 2026 Steenbock Professorship in Microbiological Sciences.

Katie successfully defended her dissertation “Media Matters: Building Better Models to Understand Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum Lifecycle Transitions”.

Courtney successfully defended her dissertation “Characterizing the dynamics of Salmonella enterica serovar Cerro on a Wisconsin dairy farm”.

Ziyun successfully defended her dissertation “Three-Dimensional Chromatin Organization of Latent Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Poises the Virus for Reactivation”.

Cody successfully defended his dissertation “Decoding the language of viral genomes with evolutionary-scale, context-aware genome language models”.

Jassim successfully defended his dissertation “Population genomics and genome evolution in a cosmopolitan yeast”.

Katie successfully defended her dissertation “Arginine Metabolism and Toxoplasma gondii: An Arginase 2 Knockout Fibroblast Model for Probing Parasite Infection Dynamics Under Host Metabolic Constraints”.

In honor of Black History Month, we are celebrating the accomplishments of several Black leaders in the Midwest and their contributions toward a cleaner energy future.  MDTP trainer has been selected as…

The Peters lab has patented novel genetic tools to accelerate biofuel production.

MDTP trainer Anna Huttenlocher has been awarded the Legacy Keynote Lecture award from the Society for Leukocyte Biology!

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences honors faculty members who have earned named professorships for their research and scholarly accomplishments.

This year, 145 scientists were nominated from around the world.

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers just released a groundbreaking study on the same mushrooms behind an uptick in poisonings in California.

Professors JD Sauer and Katie Henzler-Wildman have been selected as Vilas Associates, a prestigious award that recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Congrats!

UW researchers are helping us understand the origins of life on Earth and possibly recognize signs of life elsewhere.

Researchers are interested in studying effects on the gut microbiome and antibiotic-resistant infections.

A new method for removing harmful by-products could help clear a major hurdle for plant-based fuel production.

Dual approaches pinpoint genes for better biofuel production – New method can speed discoveries in biomanufacturing, medicine, agriculture

Katie has been awarded a Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Prize 2026 from Microbiology Society!

The viruses could also help determine if a wetland has been damaged or if restoration efforts are working.

Dinesh is the recipient of the B.R. DasGupta Graduate Scholarship for Fall 2025!

Erica has just received the 2026 ASM Award for Early Career Environmental Research!