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Welcome.
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. We study Interactions between bacteria, bacteriophages, and the immune system. We are particularly interested in developing phage-based therapeutics to combat antibiotic resistant bacterial infections.
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NEWS:
Sept 20, 2024: Amelia Schmidt successfully defended her PhD! Congrats Dr. Schmidt!
New grant, Aug 2024: We are grateful to the NIH/NIAID for supporting our
Lyme disease bacteriophage R01 for the next five years. We are recruiting!
In Aug 2024, we relocated to the Dept of Microbiology and Cell Biology at Montana State University!
Fall 2024: Alex Joyce joined the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Alex!
Dom and Rob represented the lab well at the 2023 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting at UW Madison. Dom scored a talk and Rob was a top ten finalist for his poster on enteric prophages protecting AIEC from lytic phages by modulating host amino acid metabolism.
Dom got the 2023 NSF GRFP!!!
His project focuses on how bacteria make threat assessments of cellular injury. See this write-up by the university for more on Dom and the other 5 UM students who won this prestigious award: https://www.umt.edu/news/2023/04/041223nsfa.php
PhD students Valery Roman-Cruz & Caleb Schwartzkopf graduated from the Cellular, Molecular, and Microbiology Graduate Program, 2023!
PhD student Camilla de Mattos was awarded the Center for Phage Therapy at TAMUbest abstract award at the 2022 ASMicrobe conference in DC. Camilla graduated with a PhD from the Cellular, Molecular, and Microbial Biology Graduate Program Jan. 2023. Congrats Camilla!
PhD student Dominick Faith was awarded the Toelle-Bekken Memorial Fund scholarship, Research Explorer Program & Travel Scholarship, and a Experiential Learning Scholarship Fund Award
PhD candidate Amelia Schmidt received an honorable mention for her GRFP application on phage-host-microbe interactions between filamentous phage, P. aeruginosa, and animal hosts.
Student success spring 2021: Undergraduate Devin Hunt achieved a perfect score on the MCAT! See this link for the full story. This spring, Devin will be joining the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease as an IRTA Post-Baccalaureate Fellow with the Centralized Sequencing Initiative. Congrats Devin!
New grant, March 2021: Congratulations to Margie Kinnersley on her Montana INBRE proposal exploring phages as drivers of genetic variation in Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease).
New grant, June 2020: We are grateful to the NIH NIDDK for supporting our E. coli phage work in collaboration with the Round lab at the University of Utah. The goal of this project is to determine how lysogenic phages that infect adherent invasive E. coli affect inflammatory diseases in the gut. See our recent commentary here.
New grant, March 2020: We are grateful to the NIH NIAID for supporting our Borrelia phage work. The goal of this project is to determine the role of ΦBB-1 phages in spirochete transmission and Lyme disease pathogenesis.
In the media: Undergraduate Devin Hunt featured in a University of Montana Commercial:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=512109486180785
In the media: The lab was featured in Vision Magazine: From Bench to bedside. https://medium.com/vision-2019/from-bench-to-bedside-1132299c11e0
Our work was featured on ASMs This Week in Microbiology! http://www.microbe.tv/twim/twim-198/
April 2019: Undergraduate Autumn Robinson was nominated as student employee of the year 2019. Congrats Autumn!!
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