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Amanita muscaria, Anne Pringle, Pringle Lab
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X-ray crystallography model of the dimerization interface of Salmonella Typhimurium superoxide dismutase SodCI. Peter Newhouse, Forest Lab
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Bacillus subtilis cells with RecA-GFP foci in response to head-on replication-transcription conflict, Ponlkrit Yeesin, Wang Lab
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2018 Cool Science Image Contest Winner, Caitlin Carlson
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Melissa Christopherson, Streptomyces isolated by Micro304 students
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Carved Pennsylvania Slate, Stan Sears and Andrea Myklebust, Commissioned by Wisconsin State Arts board
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Dairy calves at a research farm, Kim Dill-McFarland, Rey Lab
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Cell differentiation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms, Laura Huppert, Burton Lab
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Media and Lake Mendota, Julia Martien, Amador-Noguez Lab
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Ants in a grass-cutter ant fungus garden, Lily Khadempour, Currie Lab

Welcome

Thank you for visiting the website of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology. For more than a century, we have been known for outstanding research and teaching, and we are committed to a future in which this excellence will continue.

In brief, we produce discoveries that contribute to basic knowledge, we develop practical applications that affect lives, and we provide superior training for the next generation of microbiologists. The training we provide allows undergraduate and graduate students to begin careers that contribute to the world in many ways -- in research, teaching, industry, entrepreneurship, scientific writing and editing, and government service. Our faculty, staff, and students have created a vibrant place to learn, teach, and conduct research, a place rich in opportunity, ideas, creativity, and resources, and a place where people can flourish and discover their own potential. Because we engage people with widely differing backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and styles, we achieve excellence through diversity.

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Seminars

Upcoming Agenda

Google Drive link (campus login required) to the agenda for our next Bacteriology Faculty meeting.

Publications

  • Marshall B, Amritkar K, Wolfe M, Kaçar B, Landick R, Evolutionary flexibility and rigidity in the bacterial methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway., Frontiers in microbiology DOI, PubMed
  • Hall BW, Kontur WS, Neri JC, Gille DM, Noguera DR, Donohue TJ, Production of carotenoids from aromatics and pretreated lignocellulosic biomass by Novosphingobium aromaticivorans ., Applied and environmental microbiology DOI, PubMed
  • Pan J, Yang X, Hu C, Fu T, Zhang X, Liu Z, Wang Y, Zhang F, He X, Yu J-H, Functional, transcriptomic, and lipidomic studies of the choC gene encoding a phospholipid methyltransferase in Aspergillus fumigatus ., Microbiology spectrum DOI, PubMed
  • Ferrer-Orgaz S, Tiwari M, Isidra-Arellano MC, Pozas-Rodriguez EA, Vernié T, Rich MK, Mbengue M, Formey D, Delaux PM, Ané JM, Valdés-López O, Early Phosphorylated Protein 1 is required to activate the early rhizobial infection program., The New phytologist DOI, PubMed
  • Kwon JY, Choi YH, Lee MW, Yu JH, Shin KS, The MYST Family Histone Acetyltransferase SasC Governs Diverse Biological Processes in Aspergillus fumigatus ., Cells DOI, PubMed
  • Venkataraman M, Yñigez-Gutierrez A, Infante V, MacIntyre A, Fernandes-Júnior PI, Ané JM, Pfleger B, Synthetic Biology Toolbox for Nitrogen-Fixing Soil Microbes., ACS synthetic biology DOI, PubMed
  • Liu Y, Cheng YY, Zhou Z, Vivas EI, Warren MF, Rey FE, Anantharaman K, Venturelli OS, Shaping human gut community assembly and butyrate production by controlling the arginine dihydrolase pathway., bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology DOI, PubMed
  • Heston MB, Hanslik KL, Zarbock KR, Harding SJ, Davenport-Sis NJ, Kerby RL, Chin N, Sun Y, Hoeft A, Deming Y, Vogt NM, Betthauser TJ, Johnson SC, Asthana S, Kollmorgen G, Suridjan I, Wild N, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Rey FE, Bendlin BB, Ulland TK, Gut inflammation associated with age and Alzheimer's disease pathology: a human cohort study., Scientific reports DOI, PubMed