UF Microbiology

🏆 ANOTHER win for MCS Ph.D. candidate Javier Rosero from the Kima Lab! Congratulations on earning second place for Best Graduate Poster at last week's UF Genetics Symposium!

Pictured: Javier with his younger sister, Andrea, and with Asra, a Ph.D. student from the Lorca Lab.

🐊🏆 Big win for MCS Ph.D. students Anan Hafez and Keith Gil, both from the Czyz Lab, who took home third place in the Gator Tank competition at the Animal Sciences Graduate Symposium!

Way to go, Gators!

Two awards, one lab! 🏆 Congratulations to Chetna Sharma (Best Poster) and Erika Serravalle (Best Oral Presentation, at her first-ever conference!) on their wins at the 52nd Midwest Southeast Photosynthesis Conference. Way to represent UF and MCS! 🐊

More research. More Awards.

MCS Ph.D. student Adam Robinson of the Foster Lab earned a $1,000 UF Research Promotion Initiative Award for his paper on microbial growth under Mars-like conditions and its implications for the potential for life on Mars. 🚀

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

Could gut bacteria help defend against protein damage linked to neurodegenerative disease? Daniel Czyżm (@360Science) and his team found that Prevotella corporis activates a cellular defense response that reduces protein aggregation in model organisms.
blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/microcelldept/…