MDTP trainer Audrey Gasch – Podcast: Growth Through Uncertainty
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 …
MDTP alumna Kat Milligan-McClellan explores 10,000 years of ancestral knowledge
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 …
Congrats to MDTP student Mary Hannah Swaney!
Mary Hannah Swaney was recently awarded a NIH F31 NRSA fellowship! Congrats, Mary Hannah!
MDTP trainer Garret Suen reflects on DOE Early Career Award
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 …
Congrats to Susan Hromada, PhD!
MDTP student Susan Hromada successfully defended her dissertation “Impact of human gut microbes on Clostridioides difficile growth and antibiotic susceptibility in vitro”.
MDTP trainer Betül Kaçar time travels without fear
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 …
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 trainer and alumna Wilmara Salgado-Pabón explores superantigens in Staph infections
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 …
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