The lab has received funding through the UW WARF Accelerator program to support another field season studying microbiome diversity and mosquito dynamics in catch basins in the Chicago, IL area. This work is being conducted …
Lab News
Congratulations to Aldo and Andrew!
Aldo Arellano has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his work on Wyeomyia–Sarracenia-microbe interactions, while Andrew Sommer received an Honorable Mention for his work on fly-microbe interactions. Congratulations, Aldo and Andrew!
Welcome to our newest undergraduate researchers
Mike LeClaire, Daisy Chew, Journey Prack, and Jake DeWitte will be completing undergraduate research projects under the direction of Andrew Sommer, Aldo Arellano, and Holly Nichols. Welcome!
Welcome to Holly Nichols
We are thrilled to welcome Holly Nichols to the lab! Holly is pursuing her Ph.D. through the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program here at UW-Madison. Holly will be working collaboratively as part of a recently funded …
Welcome to Sebastián Díaz
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 …
WANTED: Postdoctoral Research Associates
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. …
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 …
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.