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Join us for this week's MDTP Student Seminar! Tony Yao from the Thomas Lab and Cynthia Feng from the Gaglia Lab will be presenting about their work. #UWMadison
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Join us for this week's MDTP Student Seminar! Tony Yao from the Thomas Lab and Cynthia Feng from the Gaglia Lab will be presenting about their work. #UWMadison
Our labs got spooky for Bactoberfest! 🧫🎃
Bactoberfest brought out the best bugs, costumes, and creativity in the lab! 🦠🎃 #Bactoberfest #ScienceHalloween
#MDTP #UWMadison
Bactoberfest brought out the best bugs, costumes, and creativity in the lab! 🦠🎃 #Bactoberfest #ScienceHalloween
#MDTP #UWMadison
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Our labs got spooky for Bactoberfest! 🧫🎃
Bactoberfest brought out the best bugs, costumes, and creativity in the lab! 🦠🎃 #Bactoberfest #ScienceHalloween
#MDTP #UWMadison
Bactoberfest brought out the best bugs, costumes, and creativity in the lab! 🦠🎃 #Bactoberfest #ScienceHalloween
#MDTP #UWMadison
This Thursday, we are thrilled to be hosting our second MDTP Student-Invited Speaker of the 2025-2026 school year, Dr. Bruce Levin!
Dr. Levin takes a population biology approach to studying the evolutionary dynamics of bacteria, phage, and antibiotic resistance.
#UWMadison
Dr. Levin takes a population biology approach to studying the evolutionary dynamics of bacteria, phage, and antibiotic resistance.
#UWMadison
October 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This Thursday, we are thrilled to be hosting our second MDTP Student-Invited Speaker of the 2025-2026 school year, Dr. Bruce Levin!
Dr. Levin takes a population biology approach to studying the evolutionary dynamics of bacteria, phage, and antibiotic resistance.
#UWMadison
Dr. Levin takes a population biology approach to studying the evolutionary dynamics of bacteria, phage, and antibiotic resistance.
#UWMadison
This week's presenters in MDTP Student Seminar: Rodrigo Cuellar from the Peters Lab and Bobby Liu from the Wang Lab! #UWMadison #microbiology
October 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This week's presenters in MDTP Student Seminar: Rodrigo Cuellar from the Peters Lab and Bobby Liu from the Wang Lab! #UWMadison #microbiology
Join us for this week's MDTP Student Seminar! Kay Lahue Donohue from the Mehle Lab and Peter Finnegan from the Gasch Lab will be presenting about their work. #UWMadison
October 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Join us for this week's MDTP Student Seminar! Kay Lahue Donohue from the Mehle Lab and Peter Finnegan from the Gasch Lab will be presenting about their work. #UWMadison
This Wednesday: Evrim Fer from @kacarlab.bsky.social dissertation defense seminar. Join us in-person or on Zoom!
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This Wednesday: Evrim Fer from @kacarlab.bsky.social dissertation defense seminar. Join us in-person or on Zoom!
Had an incredible time at the MDTP Retreat 2025! Great people, inspiring conversations, and lots of fun. Here are some snapshots from the retreat! #MDTP #UWMadison
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Had an incredible time at the MDTP Retreat 2025! Great people, inspiring conversations, and lots of fun. Here are some snapshots from the retreat! #MDTP #UWMadison
Join us for this week's MDTP Student Seminar! Sarah Nelson from the Mehle Lab and Aditya Kr. Pal from the Wang Lab will be presenting about their work. #UWMadison
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Join us for this week's MDTP Student Seminar! Sarah Nelson from the Mehle Lab and Aditya Kr. Pal from the Wang Lab will be presenting about their work. #UWMadison
This Thursday: Abena Kissi-Twum dissertation defense seminar. Join us in-person or on Zoom!
September 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This Thursday: Abena Kissi-Twum dissertation defense seminar. Join us in-person or on Zoom!
Join us for this week's MDTP Student Seminar! Nischala Nadig from the Peters Lab and Travis Worley from the Coon Lab will be presenting about their work.
#uwmadison
#uwmadison
September 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Join us for this week's MDTP Student Seminar! Nischala Nadig from the Peters Lab and Travis Worley from the Coon Lab will be presenting about their work.
#uwmadison
#uwmadison
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Excited to see Joie Ling's new preprint out! Adult mouse model shows robust GI colonization by Group B Strep without antibiotics. Capsule emerges as a persistence factor in the adult GI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A murine model of adult gastrointestinal colonization by Group B Streptococcus
Group B Streptococcus (Streptococcus agalactiae, GBS) is a leading cause of invasive infections in neonates and adults. The adult gastrointestinal (GI) tract represents an understudied site of asympto...
www.biorxiv.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Excited to see Joie Ling's new preprint out! Adult mouse model shows robust GI colonization by Group B Strep without antibiotics. Capsule emerges as a persistence factor in the adult GI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our weekly #MDTP student seminars continue tomorrow, featuring Grace Enzien from the Donohue Lab and Ebru Guver from the Sperandio Lab!
#UWMadison
#UWMadison
September 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Our weekly #MDTP student seminars continue tomorrow, featuring Grace Enzien from the Donohue Lab and Ebru Guver from the Sperandio Lab!
#UWMadison
#UWMadison
Join us to hear from our first MDTP student-invited speaker of the year, Dr. Selena Sagan, this Friday, September 19th!
Dr. Sagan's research explores how positive-sense RNA viruses usurp host cells, replicate their genomes, and cause disease.
@saganlab.bsky.social #virology #microbiology
Dr. Sagan's research explores how positive-sense RNA viruses usurp host cells, replicate their genomes, and cause disease.
@saganlab.bsky.social #virology #microbiology
September 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Join us to hear from our first MDTP student-invited speaker of the year, Dr. Selena Sagan, this Friday, September 19th!
Dr. Sagan's research explores how positive-sense RNA viruses usurp host cells, replicate their genomes, and cause disease.
@saganlab.bsky.social #virology #microbiology
Dr. Sagan's research explores how positive-sense RNA viruses usurp host cells, replicate their genomes, and cause disease.
@saganlab.bsky.social #virology #microbiology
Join us this Wednesday for our weekly #MDTP student seminars!
Emily Simonton from the Anderson Lab will be speaking about Functional Partitioning in Candida albicans TLO Gene and Dinesh Kr. Kuppa Baskaran from the Anantharaman lab will talk on Mapping infection paths through time data.
#UWMadison
Emily Simonton from the Anderson Lab will be speaking about Functional Partitioning in Candida albicans TLO Gene and Dinesh Kr. Kuppa Baskaran from the Anantharaman lab will talk on Mapping infection paths through time data.
#UWMadison
September 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Join us this Wednesday for our weekly #MDTP student seminars!
Emily Simonton from the Anderson Lab will be speaking about Functional Partitioning in Candida albicans TLO Gene and Dinesh Kr. Kuppa Baskaran from the Anantharaman lab will talk on Mapping infection paths through time data.
#UWMadison
Emily Simonton from the Anderson Lab will be speaking about Functional Partitioning in Candida albicans TLO Gene and Dinesh Kr. Kuppa Baskaran from the Anantharaman lab will talk on Mapping infection paths through time data.
#UWMadison
Applications for the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program #MDTP have started for the Fall 2026. The deadline to apply is December 1 at 11pm CST.
microbiology.wisc.edu/how-to-apply/
#UWMadison #phdadmission
microbiology.wisc.edu/how-to-apply/
#UWMadison #phdadmission
September 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Applications for the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program #MDTP have started for the Fall 2026. The deadline to apply is December 1 at 11pm CST.
microbiology.wisc.edu/how-to-apply/
#UWMadison #phdadmission
microbiology.wisc.edu/how-to-apply/
#UWMadison #phdadmission
Join us this Wednesday for our first set of weekly #MDTP student seminars for this semester!
Rodrigo Montoro from the Knoll lab will be speaking about Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Ashley Holt from the Nett lab will talk about Neutrophil evasion of Candida auris.
#UWMadison
Rodrigo Montoro from the Knoll lab will be speaking about Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Ashley Holt from the Nett lab will talk about Neutrophil evasion of Candida auris.
#UWMadison
September 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Join us this Wednesday for our first set of weekly #MDTP student seminars for this semester!
Rodrigo Montoro from the Knoll lab will be speaking about Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Ashley Holt from the Nett lab will talk about Neutrophil evasion of Candida auris.
#UWMadison
Rodrigo Montoro from the Knoll lab will be speaking about Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Ashley Holt from the Nett lab will talk about Neutrophil evasion of Candida auris.
#UWMadison
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Gearing up for a fantastic Fall Seminar Series @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social! Kickoff is this Friday with the Dr. Rod Welch Distinguished Lecture by Vic DiRita!
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Gearing up for a fantastic Fall Seminar Series @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social! Kickoff is this Friday with the Dr. Rod Welch Distinguished Lecture by Vic DiRita!
📣 Join us next Tuesday (08/19) at 10 AM for the next #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar
Jonathan Lombardino from Burton Lab will be presenting on "Genome-scale insights into interspecies natural transformation and mosaic recombination in Bacillus subtilis"
Jonathan Lombardino from Burton Lab will be presenting on "Genome-scale insights into interspecies natural transformation and mosaic recombination in Bacillus subtilis"
August 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
📣 Join us next Tuesday (08/19) at 10 AM for the next #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar
Jonathan Lombardino from Burton Lab will be presenting on "Genome-scale insights into interspecies natural transformation and mosaic recombination in Bacillus subtilis"
Jonathan Lombardino from Burton Lab will be presenting on "Genome-scale insights into interspecies natural transformation and mosaic recombination in Bacillus subtilis"
📣 Join us tomorrow (8/13) at 2 PM for the next #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Eddy Cruz from Elfenbein Lab will be presenting on "Elucidating regulatory inputs controlling expression of the Salmonella dmsA homologs"
Eddy Cruz from Elfenbein Lab will be presenting on "Elucidating regulatory inputs controlling expression of the Salmonella dmsA homologs"
August 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
📣 Join us tomorrow (8/13) at 2 PM for the next #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Eddy Cruz from Elfenbein Lab will be presenting on "Elucidating regulatory inputs controlling expression of the Salmonella dmsA homologs"
Eddy Cruz from Elfenbein Lab will be presenting on "Elucidating regulatory inputs controlling expression of the Salmonella dmsA homologs"
Congratulations to #MDTP trainee Dr. Jacob Vander Griend for successfully defending his thesis! 🎓 🎉
Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Vander Griend on his successful PhD defense today! Really proud of all of your work on systems-level studies in Vibrio fischeri. @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Congratulations to #MDTP trainee Dr. Jacob Vander Griend for successfully defending his thesis! 🎓 🎉
📣 Join us this Thursday (8/7) at 9.30 am for the next #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Damayanti Rodriguez-Ramos from Erica Majumder's Lab will be defending her thesis titled "Succession and Selection of Microbial Communities in Landfills and Their Growth on Plastics"
Damayanti Rodriguez-Ramos from Erica Majumder's Lab will be defending her thesis titled "Succession and Selection of Microbial Communities in Landfills and Their Growth on Plastics"
August 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
📣 Join us this Thursday (8/7) at 9.30 am for the next #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Damayanti Rodriguez-Ramos from Erica Majumder's Lab will be defending her thesis titled "Succession and Selection of Microbial Communities in Landfills and Their Growth on Plastics"
Damayanti Rodriguez-Ramos from Erica Majumder's Lab will be defending her thesis titled "Succession and Selection of Microbial Communities in Landfills and Their Growth on Plastics"
⬇️ Reminder, it is going to happen today at 3 pm!
Join us on TOMORROW (7/15) at 3:00 pm for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Nayanna Mercado-Soto from the Keller and Huttenlocher Labs will be defending her thesis titled "Innate immune regulation during wound healing infection in zebrafish".
Nayanna Mercado-Soto from the Keller and Huttenlocher Labs will be defending her thesis titled "Innate immune regulation during wound healing infection in zebrafish".
July 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
⬇️ Reminder, it is going to happen today at 3 pm!
Join us on TOMORROW (7/15) at 3:00 pm for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Nayanna Mercado-Soto from the Keller and Huttenlocher Labs will be defending her thesis titled "Innate immune regulation during wound healing infection in zebrafish".
Nayanna Mercado-Soto from the Keller and Huttenlocher Labs will be defending her thesis titled "Innate immune regulation during wound healing infection in zebrafish".
July 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Join us on TOMORROW (7/15) at 3:00 pm for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Nayanna Mercado-Soto from the Keller and Huttenlocher Labs will be defending her thesis titled "Innate immune regulation during wound healing infection in zebrafish".
Nayanna Mercado-Soto from the Keller and Huttenlocher Labs will be defending her thesis titled "Innate immune regulation during wound healing infection in zebrafish".
Check out the amazing work of two MDTP students My Tran '22 and Angel Hernandez Viera '22 ( @angeljhv.bsky.social ) into how phage can be leveraged to tackle antibiotic resistance.
The two first co-authors are rising fourth year PhD candidates in the Mo Lab.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
The two first co-authors are rising fourth year PhD candidates in the Mo Lab.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.
elifesciences.org
July 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Check out the amazing work of two MDTP students My Tran '22 and Angel Hernandez Viera '22 ( @angeljhv.bsky.social ) into how phage can be leveraged to tackle antibiotic resistance.
The two first co-authors are rising fourth year PhD candidates in the Mo Lab.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
The two first co-authors are rising fourth year PhD candidates in the Mo Lab.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
📢 Join us on Thursday (6/19) at 12:00 pm for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Dante Calise from the Keller lab will be defending his thesis titled "Dissecting the Role of the Fungal Oxylipin Responsive Transcription Factor ZfpA in the Echinocandin Tolerance of Human Pathogenic Aspergilli".
Dante Calise from the Keller lab will be defending his thesis titled "Dissecting the Role of the Fungal Oxylipin Responsive Transcription Factor ZfpA in the Echinocandin Tolerance of Human Pathogenic Aspergilli".
June 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
📢 Join us on Thursday (6/19) at 12:00 pm for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Dante Calise from the Keller lab will be defending his thesis titled "Dissecting the Role of the Fungal Oxylipin Responsive Transcription Factor ZfpA in the Echinocandin Tolerance of Human Pathogenic Aspergilli".
Dante Calise from the Keller lab will be defending his thesis titled "Dissecting the Role of the Fungal Oxylipin Responsive Transcription Factor ZfpA in the Echinocandin Tolerance of Human Pathogenic Aspergilli".