Early-Career Research Opportunities
Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity (GFSD)
Application materials due: Dec. 15, 2022
Postdoctoral Position in Nutrition/Host-microbial Interactions – UW Madison
Position must be filled by June 30, 2023
Campus Research Resources
- The Carver Biotechnology Center offers a suite of tools for microbial researchers
- Core Facilities at the Institute for Genomic Biology include microscopy capabilities and computing infrastructure
- HPCBio, high-performance computing resources for biological data management and analysis
- The Rodent Gnotobiotic Facility offers animal models
- BioCyc, a web portal for microbial genomes and metabolic pathways, is now available without access limits to all users with a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IP address
The National Landscape
- Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research
- The American Society for Microbiology
- The International Society for Microbial Ecology
- White paper on Microbial anti-cancer therapy and prevention
Recent Publications
09.13.2022 Tutorial: Microbiome Studies in Drug Metabolism
09.13.2022 Unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in Enterococcus faecalis requires a specific enoyl-ACP reductase
09.02.2022 Application of neighborhood-scale wastewater-based epidemiology in low COVID-19 incidence situations
09.01.2022 Toward the Complete Functional Characterization of a Minimal Bacterial Proteome
08.30.2022 Fecal Metabolites as Biomarkers for Predicting Food Intake By Healthy Adults 08.30.2022 Perspective: Challenges with product testing in powdered infant formula
08.18.2022 At the crux of maternal immune activation: Viruses, microglia, microbes, and IL-17A
07.30.2022 System analysis of Lipomyces starkeyi during growth on various plant-based sugars
07.15.2022 Risk of Legionellosis in residential areas around farms irrigating with municipal wastewater
07.11.2022 Profiling of d-alanine production by the microbial isolates of rat gut microbiota
07.02.2022 Accurate identification of transcription regulatory sequences and genes in coronaviruses