Drs. Jason Smith & Josh Woodward have been promoted to Professor; Dr. Kendall Gray has been promoted to Teaching Professor; and Dr. Rebecca Achterman has been promoted to Associate Teaching Professor. Congratulations all!
Microbiology News & Announcements
U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Washington #7 among Global Universities in Microbiology. See rankings here.
Kaitlin Hulce (Smith lab) has received two years of support from the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA F32 fellowship program. Congratulations Kaitlin!
Professor Joseph Mougous and colleagues (including first author Qinqin Zhao) describe the structure and activity of a newly identified class of umbrella-shaped Streptomyces toxins in the April 17th issue of Nature. See the UW Newsroom highlight for more info.
Prof. Fuller has been selected to be recognized at the Center's 6th Latinx Faculty Recognition Event. This special event honors the scholarly achievements of Latinx faculty across the tri-campuses of the University of Washington for 2022-2024.
Sora Kim (Guo Lab) won 3 years of postdoctoral research support as part of this prestigious fellowship. Congrats Sora!
Micro PhD student Ella Lamont (Sherman Lab) was accepted into the TL1 Translational Research Training Program, a one-year mentored research training program in translational science for predoctoral students. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Edith Sawyer (Meeske Lab) and Billy Ngo (Mougous Lab), who received support from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
As part of the Science in Medicine series, Professor Greenberg will be giving his lecture, “Shedding light on bacterial communication and cooperation”, on April 17th at 11AM in the Orin Smith Auditorium, and over Zoom. RSVPs here are appreciated but not required.
Tara Young, an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Assistant Professor Monica Guo, won first place in the AAAS 2024 Student E-Poster Competition in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as an Undergraduate presenter. Along with an electronic prize of $500, a year’s digital AAAS membership that includes a digital subscription to the journal of science, and a certificate, she will be recognized in an ad in the April 19 issue of Science.