UChicago Department of Microbiology

🎉 Our inaugural Micro Retreat was truly unforgettable! Two days filled with enlightening scientific dialogues, bonding, and joy with our amazing community. Overwhelmed with gratitude for the memories we've created together. Dive into the highlights with our video recap! 🎥

This Friday's work in progress talk will be by Tess Brunner in the Light and Blekhman labs, talking about the gut microbiome as a longitudinal reservoir and adaptive niche for hospital-associated pathogens.

Happy to be a part of this work !! It was the most read microbiology paper in Feb !! @UChicago_Micro !

Tomorrow's COM invited speaker is Dr. Ferran Garcia-Pichel from Arizona State University talking about emergent properties in desert soil microbes driven by microbial interactions.

Tomorrow's COM work-in-progress will be Tonu Pius from the Missiakas lab talking about teichoic acid’s role in Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization.

This week's COM invited speaker is Dr. Lauren Palmer from the University of Illinois - Chicago, talking about how amino acid competition shapes Acinetobacter baumanii gut carriage.

This Friday's work in progress will be Baylee Heiden from the Khader and Tay labs, talking about early Mycobacterial interactions with airway cells.

This week COM is hosting Dr. Jennie Kwon from Northwestern University who will talk about antimicrobial resistance in human and environmental microbiome.

This week's COM work in progress will be Leila Tuzlak in the Comstock lab talking about the regulation of the Bacteroidales GA2 Type VI secretion system locus and genes involved in its conjugal transfer.

This Friday's COM work-in-progress will be Peter Wang from the Randall lab whose talk will be: Viral Escape from G3BP1 Dependency Reveals Plasticity in Norovirus Replication.

This week's COM work-in-progress will be Amanda Blocker from the Missiakas lab talking about SmuA, a mucinase required for anthrax disease.

New study shows how light suppresses virulence in antibiotic-resistant pathogen | Biological Sciences Division | The University of Chicago biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/light-sup…

This week's work-in-progress will be Haley Flick from the Roy Chowdhury lab, talking about Antigenic crossroads in γδ T cell immunity against TB.

This week's COM work-in-progress will be by Isaac Younker in the Light lab, talking about the metabolic ecology of the gut microbiome.

Friday's COM work-in-progress will be by Emily Waligurski in the Comstock lab talking about quinone acquisition and remodeling by Bacteroides species of the human gut.

Happy new year! COM Research Forum returns this Friday with Corey Rundquist in the Coleman lab, talking about ties between microbial metabolic functions and environmental preferences in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Researchers find gut microbes that could affect how the body controls inflammation | Biological Sciences Division | The University of Chicago biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/gut-micro…

On Wednesday, Dr. Vatsan Raman from the University of Wisconsin will give a talk on decoding and engineering bacteriophages using large-scale functional genomics.

Friday's COM work in progress will be Maggie Carroll from the Raman lab talking about decoding environmental constraints to shape functional microbiomes.

This Wednesday, Alyson Hockenberry from Loyola University will be our invited seminar speaker. Dr. Hockenberry works on integrating scales for a holistic view of health and disease.

This Friday's COM work-in-progress will be by Dimitrios Manias from the Mukherjee lab, talking about photo-sensing regulation of virulence in a pathogenic bacterium.