Lab News

We are thrilled to welcome Sebastián Díaz as a Visiting Scholar to the lab! Sebastián is currently a Ph.D. student in Frank Avila’s lab at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia. With support from …

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. …

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 …

Serena Zhao has been appointed as an NIH trainee through the Parasitology & Vector Biology Training Program. Congratulations, Serena!

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 …

Lalita and Molly will be completing undergraduate research projects under the direction of Andrew Sommer and Serena Zhao, respectively.

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 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 …

Kerri was invited to speak at the 2019 Arthropod Genomics Symposium, to be held June 12-14 in Manhattan, KS USA. Her talk will focus on the role of microbe-mediated gut hypoxia in regulating mosquito development. …