Hustmyer and Landick applied for and received a 2025 Lakeshore Nature Preserve Student Engagement Grant. The research project they developed had two goals: to learn more about the impact of plant microbiomes on biofuel-relevant native …
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Congratulations to Dr. Jason Saba!
Jason Saba successfully defended his thesis “Promoter inversion and anti-termination control mechanisms regulating capsular polysaccharide biosynthesis in the human gut symbiote Bacteroides fragilis” on June 24. Congratulations!
Hustmyer receives Denton Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring
Congratulations to Christine on her receipt of the Denton Award! The Denton Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring honors IPiB students who provide exceptional commitment, guidance, and scientific training in mentoring and …
Congratulations to Dr. Christine Hustmyer!
Christine Hustmyer successfully defended her thesis “H-NS-mediated Mechanisms of Transcription Elongation Silencing and Counter-silencing in K-12 and Uropathogenic Escherichia coli” on June 4. Congratulations! Read more about it in the link above.
Welcome to our new graduate students!
Four new graduate students have joined our lab! Welcome to Trevor Rowray (CMB), Alice Kang (Biophysics), Siwei Qian (Biophysics), and Atharv Garje (Genetics).
Landick and Venturelli labs joint publication featured in “Research in Brief”
Our lab’s recent publication “Single-cell analysis of multiple invertible promoters reveals differential inversion rates as a strong determinant of bacterial population heterogeneity,” a joint effort with members of the Venturelli lab was featured in the …
Congratulations to Dr. Yu Bao!
Yu Bao successfully defended his thesis “Sequence insertion 3 of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase regulates transcriptional pausing” on July 27. Congratulations! He will soon start a postdoctoral fellowship in Europe.
Farewell to Allison and Kelly
Undergraduate researcher Allison Czora and research intern Kelly Wichmann both left our lab earlier this summer to attend graduate school. We wish them well in their next steps!
Welcome to Brett
Brett Bortz has joined our group as a research intern. Welcome!
Sherry Cao Receives NIH Pathway to Independence Award
Congratulations to Sherry on receiving this award! Read more details about it in the above link.