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Cell differentiation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms, Laura Huppert, Burton Lab
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Ants in a grass-cutter ant fungus garden, Lily Khadempour, Currie Lab
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Media and Lake Mendota, Julia Martien, Amador-Noguez 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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2018 Cool Science Image Contest Winner, Caitlin Carlson
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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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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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Melissa Christopherson, Streptomyces isolated by Micro304 students
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Amanita muscaria, Anne Pringle, Pringle 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

  • Kosmopoulos JC, Anantharaman K, To cull or kill., Nature ecology & evolution DOI, PubMed
  • Chakraborty S, Venkataraman M, Infante V, Pfleger BF, Ané JM, Scripting a new dialogue between diazotrophs and crops., Trends in microbiology DOI, PubMed
  • Elsayed NS, Valenzuela RK, Kitchner T, Le T, Mayer J, Tang ZZ, Bayanagari VR, Lu Q, Aston P, Anantharaman K, Shukla SK, Genetic risk score in multiple sclerosis is associated with unique gut microbiome., Scientific reports DOI, PubMed
  • Gupta S, Pellett S, Recent Developments in Vaccine Design: From Live Vaccines to Recombinant Toxin Vaccines., Toxins DOI, PubMed
  • Smith HB, Lee K, Freeman MJ, Stevenson DM, Amador-Noguez D, Sauer JD, Listeria monocytogenes requires DHNA-dependent intracellular redox homeostasis facilitated by Ndh2 for survival and virulence., Infection and immunity DOI, PubMed
  • Rahlff J, Wietz M, Giebel HA, Bayfield O, Nilsson E, Bergström K, Kieft K, Anantharaman K, Ribas-Ribas M, Schweitzer HD, Wurl O, Hoetzinger M, Antson A, Holmfeldt K, Ecogenomics and cultivation reveal distinctive viral-bacterial communities in the surface microlayer of a Baltic Sea slick., ISME communications DOI, PubMed
  • Peng Z, Adam ZR, Fahrenbach AC, Kaçar B, Assessment of Stoichiometric Autocatalysis across Element Groups., Journal of the American Chemical Society DOI, PubMed
  • Lee YT, Savini M, Chen T, Yang J, Zhao Q, Ding L, Gao SM, Senturk M, Sowa JN, Wang JD, Wang MC, Mitochondrial GTP metabolism controls reproductive aging in C. elegans., Developmental cell DOI, PubMed