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🎉 Welcome to the 2024 MDTP cohort ! 🎉 We’re thrilled to have you join our vibrant community of scholars. Get ready to explore and push the boundaries of research. This journey will be challenging, but you are surrounded by peers and mentors who are here to support you. #MDTP

Join us tomorrow for our first set of weekly #MDTP student seminars for this semester! Elena Rehborg from the Zamanian lab will be speaking about parasite receptors and James Kosmopoulos from the Anantharaman lab will talk about viral community in Peatland soils.

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Join us tomorrow for our weekly #MDTP student seminars! Cynthia Pryde-Aguilar from the Suresh lab will be speaking about memory cell formation in the respiratory tract and Jessie Petrey from the Wang lab will be talking about antimicrobial survival in gram-positive bacteria.

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MDTP student Brian Snow's defense today!

We have an exciting guest speaker at the MDTP student seminar today.

Join us tomorrow (10/2) for the next #MDTP student seminar! Joie Ling from the Hryckowian lab will be presenting on "Role of Dietary Fiber on Group B Streptococcus Gastrointestinal Colonization"

‼️ Check out this cool paper from #MDTP student James Kosmopoulos on the viral ecology and differences between viral communities!

📢Join us tomorrow (10/9) for the #MDTP student seminar! Sely Peña-Rivera (Selymar Pena-Rivera) will be presenting on biochemical properties of inaccessible polysaccharides. And, Jackie Spieles will be presenting on the cellular respiration in Cryptococcus during spore germination.

📢 Join us TODAY (10/16) for #MDTP Student Seminar! Rachel Rovinsky (Rachel Rovinsky) will be presenting on biodegradable co-polymer production from diary waste. And Angel Hernandez Viera will be presenting on GreA effect on Type III CRISPR immunity.

📢 Join us TODAY (10/23) for #MDTP Student Seminar! My Tran (My Tran) will be presenting on antiphage defense island in Staphylococcus epidermidis RP62a. And Heather Emery (Heather Emery) will be presenting on bacterial purine degredation in host purine homeostasis.

📢Join us on WEDNESDAY (10/30) for the MDTP student seminar series! Amelia Hansen will be presenting on understanding the importance of Isp1 in the life cycle of Cryptococus. Azka Ahmed will talk about the role of vitamin D3 on immune response to Mycobacterium infection.

The Microbiology Doctoral Training Program recently held their annual Bactoberfest, and it was truly a sight to behold! The theme this year was 'Comics and Cartoons', with 32 labs going all-out to create interactive booths for the occasion. An absolutely wonderful MDTP tradition!

UW-Madison is at SACNAS! Come say hi to MDTP Director Trina McMahon and get a photo with Bucky Badger!

MDTP student Nayanna Mercado-Soto and MDTP director Trina McMahon hanging with Bucky at SACNAS!

📢Join us on WEDNESDAY (11/06) for the MDTP student seminar series! Damayanti Rodriguez Ramos will be talking about Microbial Communities in Landfills.

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Join us on Wednesday (11/20) for the MDTP student seminar series! Jacob Hotvedt will talk about the regulation of virulence in EHEC!