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My PhD student Caleb Skow presented yesterday his research project in a poster at the “American Association of Avian Pathologists” in Portland Oregon.

Congratulations to my PhD student Jared Meinen-Jochum for his successful thesis defense & graduation!!!!

Talk at CRWAD 2025 conference in Chicago

Iowa State study shows zinc’s potential to fight antimicrobial resistance | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences cals.iastate.edu/news/2024/iowa…

Our recent study published in AEM journal was highlighted by ASM press « In Lab Tests, Dietary Zinc Inhibits AMR Gene Transmission | ASM.org asm.org/press-releases…

My students Jared Meinen-Jochum (top); Caleb Skow (bottom left), and Logan Ott (bottom right) presented their research at 2024 ASM microbes in Atlanta

Read our article on Short-chain fatty acids to mitigate antimicrobial resistance in the gut. Congrats to my student Logan Ott first author!!!! frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

@Astrobiomeech Congrats !!! Michelle it’s a big step :)

I passed my prelims! I'm a PhD candidate!!

@MicrobialZach Congratulations Zach!!!

Happy to announce I am a 2024 NDSEG Fellow, super excited by this opportunity and still a little in shock that I got it but excited none the less!

@keatingaileen Lovely family Aileen happy holidays !!!!

Gwyn Beattie has recently discovered that bacteria use light cues to anticipate, prepare for coming stress. Congratulations! Click to the link to learn more about it. cals.iastate.edu/news/2023/rese…

My UG student Luke Westrick presented his honors capstone poster on 12/6 at MU ISU. The work was done in my lab under my grad student supervision Logan Ott. Great work Luke!!!

Congratulations to our IM student for this great achievement !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PhD Candidate Marissa Roghair Stroud Recipient of USDA NIFA Presdoctoral Fellowship | Interdepartmental Microbiology Graduate Program micrograd.iastate.edu/news/2023/phd-…

Our research highlighted at Fall 2023 - Iowa Stater iowastater.iastate.edu/issue/fall-2023

🚨 There are still about 2 weeks to apply for our faculty position in host-microbe interactions at Iowa State! Open to any microbe, with an emphasis on insect or plant systems. Please share. #academicjobs go.iastate.edu/OU4OMR

Iowa State ranks among the top 100 U.S. universities granted utility patents in 2022 "These innovations are a great sign of the broad research portfolio at Iowa State University.” Patrick Klepcyk, ISU Research Foundation 📰econdev.iastate.edu/news-events/ne…

Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Michelle Chamberlain @Astrobiomeech for winning #FINESST award from @NASA. She will work with her advisor, Dr. Swanner @betsyswanner to investigate the impacts of molybdenum and iron availability on nitrogen cycling in an ancient ocean analog

@Astrobiomeech @NASA Congratulations Michelle very happy for you!!!!

I'm so happy to share that my @NASA #FINESST proposal was selected for funding!! I'm a future investigator! 🥹🎉

Congratulations to my student Logan Ott who receive the ISU research excellent award !!!!Parchment Exchange - Leader in eTranscript Exchange parchment.com/u/award/7fcd09…

Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Logan Ott for receiving a Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University! 🏆👏 parchment.com/u/award/7fcd09…