Interspecies Interactions
The tiny obligate parasitic bacterium Southlakia epibionticum(yellow) cultured on its host bacterium, Actinomyces israelii (blue)
Image credit: Drs. Larry Gallagher and Joseph Mougous
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.
Professor Fang was interviewed for ASM's Meet the Microbiologist Podcast to discuss his recent book "Thinking About Science: Good Science, Bad Science, and How to Make it Better". Dr. Fang was interviewed alongside his co-author, Dr. Arturo Casadevall.
On 6/13/23, UW Medicine launched the Microbial Interactions & Microbiome Center to catalyze research in the Pacific Northwest focused on microbial communities. The new center, led by Dr. Joseph Mougous, the Lynn M. and Michael D. Garvey Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology, Professor of Microbiology and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UW, will bring together scientists from diverse disciplines to study how microbes interact with each other and with their hosts, as well as the functional importance of microbiomes in the environment and in human health and disease.”
See the UW Newsroom Article.
UW Medicine launches a new center to study microbiomes Today UW Medicine launched the Microbial Interactions & |
Dr. E. Pete Greenberg is being recognized with one of the most prestigious and inspirational international scientific awards, the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. The award is bestowed jointly with two other scientists, Bonnie Bassler and Jeffrey Gordon. Their Majesties King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain, accompanied by HRH Princess of Asturias Leonor, will preside over the ceremony of the Princess of Asturias Awards which will take place on Friday 20th October in the Spanish town of Oviedo.