Research

Early-Career Research Opportunities

IGB Postdoctoral Fellowships

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

09.14.2022 Cas9-Based Metabolic Engineering of Issatchenkia orientalis for Enhanced Utilization of Cellulosic Hydrolysates

09.14.2022 Bowel habits, fecal microbiota, and fecal bile acid composition of healthy adults consuming fruit pomace fibres: Two-arm, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trials

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