MDTP student Sofia Romero has been selected as a 2021 inductee into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Honor Society!

MDTP student Derrick Grunwald successfully defended his dissertation: Detection of rare Rhg1 nematode resistance haplotypes in Glycine soja and a novel Rhg1 alpha-SNAP

MDTP student Nick Raffa successfully defended his dissertation: A Jack of All Trades: Versatile Isocyanides Influence Copper Homeostasis and Microbial Interactions in Aspergillus fumigatus

MDTP student Bayleigh Benner successfully defended her dissertation: A (frame)shift in perspective: Understanding links between HIV-1 translational recoding, viral assembly, and transcript fate

MDTP student Kemardo Henry successfully defended his dissertation: Lack of a vital RNA polymerase recognition feature results in coordinated control of the majority of R. sphaeroides promoters.

MDTP student Connor Hendrich successfully defended his dissertation: Ralstonia solanacearum Secretion Systems: Critical virulence factors and points of vulnerability

MDTP student Eliot Stanton successfully defended his dissertation: The impact of mobile genetic elements on the diversification of Escherichia coli O157:H7

While we can’t do the traditional Bactoberfest in person this year, our creative students pulled off the first-ever virtual Bactoberfest!