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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
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
📣 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"
📣 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"
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".
📢 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".
📢 Join us tomorrow (6/12) at 10:30 am for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Shane Roesemann from the Kwan lab will be presenting his thesis research titled: "Computational Microbiology Across the Bench, Clinic, and Classroom".
DM for Zoom link
Shane Roesemann from the Kwan lab will be presenting his thesis research titled: "Computational Microbiology Across the Bench, Clinic, and Classroom".
DM for Zoom link
June 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
📢 Join us tomorrow (6/12) at 10:30 am for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Shane Roesemann from the Kwan lab will be presenting his thesis research titled: "Computational Microbiology Across the Bench, Clinic, and Classroom".
DM for Zoom link
Shane Roesemann from the Kwan lab will be presenting his thesis research titled: "Computational Microbiology Across the Bench, Clinic, and Classroom".
DM for Zoom link
📢 Join us tomorrow (6/6) at 12 pm for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Amy Enright Steinberger from the Peters lab will be defending her thesis titled "Integrative Functional Genomics to Enhance Bioenergy Stress Tolerance of Zymomonas mobilis".
Amy Enright Steinberger from the Peters lab will be defending her thesis titled "Integrative Functional Genomics to Enhance Bioenergy Stress Tolerance of Zymomonas mobilis".
June 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
📢 Join us tomorrow (6/6) at 12 pm for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Amy Enright Steinberger from the Peters lab will be defending her thesis titled "Integrative Functional Genomics to Enhance Bioenergy Stress Tolerance of Zymomonas mobilis".
Amy Enright Steinberger from the Peters lab will be defending her thesis titled "Integrative Functional Genomics to Enhance Bioenergy Stress Tolerance of Zymomonas mobilis".
📣 Join us on Thursday (5/8) at 11 am for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Aldo Arellano from the Coon lab will be defending his thesis titled "Host-microbe feedbacks in a tripartite symbiosis".
Aldo Arellano from the Coon lab will be defending his thesis titled "Host-microbe feedbacks in a tripartite symbiosis".
May 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📣 Join us on Thursday (5/8) at 11 am for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Aldo Arellano from the Coon lab will be defending his thesis titled "Host-microbe feedbacks in a tripartite symbiosis".
Aldo Arellano from the Coon lab will be defending his thesis titled "Host-microbe feedbacks in a tripartite symbiosis".
📣 Join us TODAY (4/16) at 12 PM for the last #MDTP Student Seminar of the semester!
Alex Dobrila (@alex-dobrila.bsky.social) from Hryckowian Lab will be presenting on "Exogenous Butyrate Modulates The Virulence of Clostridioides difficile"
Alex Dobrila (@alex-dobrila.bsky.social) from Hryckowian Lab will be presenting on "Exogenous Butyrate Modulates The Virulence of Clostridioides difficile"
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📣 Join us TODAY (4/16) at 12 PM for the last #MDTP Student Seminar of the semester!
Alex Dobrila (@alex-dobrila.bsky.social) from Hryckowian Lab will be presenting on "Exogenous Butyrate Modulates The Virulence of Clostridioides difficile"
Alex Dobrila (@alex-dobrila.bsky.social) from Hryckowian Lab will be presenting on "Exogenous Butyrate Modulates The Virulence of Clostridioides difficile"
📣 Join us TOMORROW (4/14) at 3 pm for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Erin Conley from Thomas Lab will be presenting on "Defining parameters of substrate selection in nonribosomal peptide synthetases"
Erin Conley from Thomas Lab will be presenting on "Defining parameters of substrate selection in nonribosomal peptide synthetases"
April 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
📣 Join us TOMORROW (4/14) at 3 pm for #MDTP Dissertation Defense Seminar!
Erin Conley from Thomas Lab will be presenting on "Defining parameters of substrate selection in nonribosomal peptide synthetases"
Erin Conley from Thomas Lab will be presenting on "Defining parameters of substrate selection in nonribosomal peptide synthetases"