It’s official! We are recruiting two Postdoctoral Research Associates for our 5-year collaborative award from the NSF and BBSRC on mosquito-microbe/microbiome interactions with Eva Heinz and Grant Hughes at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. …
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Did Ya Know? Not All Mosquitoes Want Your Blood.
Brought to you as part of the 2020 Wisconsin Science Festival.
Kerri and Andrew receive support from the Dairy Innovation Hub
The lab has received funding from the Dairy Innovation Hub to support a short-term, high-impact proposal on the capacity of flies to acquire and transmit disease-causing bacteria to dairy cows! The award will provide two …
Andrew Sommer: Life history impacts on fly-microbe interactions
I am very excited to be able to share with everyone the above video featuring my research on the potential role that Muscidae (Diptera) flies play in the transmission of mastitis- and enteritis-causing bacteria to …
Our lab’s commitment to improving diversity in STEM
We believe that everyone has a place in STEM. We also recognize how a legacy of systemic racism and marginalization has put careers in STEM out of reach for many people. We are committed to …
Congratulations to Serena!
Serena Zhao has been appointed as an NIH trainee through the Parasitology & Vector Biology Training Program. Congratulations, Serena!
We’ve moved!
Kerri has transferred to the Department of Bacteriology and the lab has moved to the Microbial Sciences Building at UW-Madison. We’re happy to be closer to some of our collaborators and look forward to a …
Welcome to Lalita Arzumanyan and Molly Sneller
Lalita and Molly will be completing undergraduate research projects under the direction of Andrew Sommer and Serena Zhao, respectively.
Welcome to Andrew Sommer and Aldo Arellano
We are thrilled to welcome Andrew Sommer and Aldo Arellano to the lab! Both Andrew and Aldo are pursuing their Ph.D. through the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program here at UW-Madison.
Kerri to speak at 33rd Annual Kenneth B. Raper Symposium at UW-Madison
Kerri was invited to speak at the 2019 Kenneth B. Raper Symposium, to be held September 3 in Madison, WI. This symposium highlights ongoing microbiology-related research at UW-Madison, and is sponsored by the Department of …