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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · 3d

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

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · 8d

This Thursday: Abena Kissi-Twum dissertation defense seminar. Join us in-person or on Zoom!

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Drew Hryckowian @a-hryckowian.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · 15d

Our weekly #MDTP student seminars continue tomorrow, featuring Grace Enzien from the Donohue Lab and Ebru Guver from the Sperandio Lab!

#UWMadison

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · 22d

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

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · 24d

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

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social · Sep 3

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!

Medical Microbiology & Immunology Fall 2025 Seminar Series Flyer. Talks are Fridays at Noon in MSB 1520.

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Aug 15

📣 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"

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Aug 13

Congrats Dr. Damayanti Rodriguez-Ramos for successfully defending her thesis! 🎉🎓

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣 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"

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Aug 13

Congratulations to #MDTP trainee Dr. Jacob Vander Griend for successfully defending his thesis! 🎓 🎉

Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

Mark and Jake smiling, in the atrium of the Microbial Sciences Building at UW-Madison

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Aug 6

📣 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"

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Jul 15

⬇️ Reminder, it is going to happen today at 3 pm!

UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Jul 14

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".

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Jul 14

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".

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Jul 11

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...

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

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢 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".

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 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

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Jun 5

📢 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".

UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · May 5

📣 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".

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Doran Goldman @goldmandoran.bsky.social · Apr 7

Really honored to read this thoughtful perspective on our paper, thanks so much to @contaminatedsci.bsky.social!

Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · Apr 7

Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.

It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly

www.pnas.org

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Rauf Salamzade @raufs.bsky.social · Apr 4

In addition to searching for gene-clusters (e.g. BGCs, operons, etc.), fai/zol also include a --single-query option that lets you investigate the variability/conservation of genomic context for homologs of a single protein across a pangenome - as well as ...

5.5 tutorial on detection of homologs and their contexts from a single protein query

zol (& fai): large-scale targeted detection and evolutionary investigation of gene clusters (i.e. BGCs, phages, etc.) - Kalan-Lab/zol

github.com

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UW Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social · Apr 17

Hi, you generally just reach out to us and we'll send the zoom link to you. We'll moderate the BlueSky account better moving forward.