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UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology

@UWBact

Research and education in modern microbiology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI bact.wisc.edu Joined June 2017
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Shout out to Miriam Guevara, research specialist in the Pellet Lab, on her recent poster award at the IBRCC! She presented her collaborative work with Jae-Hyuk Yu and Dasol Choi investigating the effects of a novel broad-spectrum antimicrobial on C. botulinum.
Miriam Guevara @mguevara2112 Nov 20, 2024
I had a great time attending and presenting at the 60th annual IBRCC meeting in Atlanta. I am also honored to have received a best poster award!
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Very cool miniseries being put on by @WIDiscovery over the next few months on the gut-brain superhighway. It kicks off tonight, Jan. 16 with @VanessaSperand2 and @Science_Haikus of @UWMadisonMMI talking about Microbes, Addiction, and Immunity.
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www.eventbrite.com Crossroads of Ideas: Gut Instincts - Microbes, Addiction, and Immunity Part 1 of the Microbiome Miniseries, with Margaret Alexander and Vanessa Sperandio
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New report from the Pellett Lab on how botulinum neurotoxins can be produced at high levels in a stable form in C. tetani. This finding is expected to greatly facilitate purification of BoNTs and could aid in production of antitoxins.
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www.mdpi.com Expression of Recombinant Clostridial Neurotoxin by C. tetani Tetanus neurotoxins (TeNT) and botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are closely related ~150 kDa protein toxins that together comprise the group of clostridial neurotoxins (CNTs) expressed by various...
UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology @UWBact
Congratulations to Dr. Kerri Coon @MosMicrobes on her Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award! 12 faculty members were chosen to receive this year’s awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of UW–Madison's finest educators.
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news.wisc.edu 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients announced Twelve faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators.
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The Coon Lab @MosMicrobes and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine @LSTMnews have created a Mosquito-Associated Isolate Collection which brings together genome info and bacterial isolates in order to drive research towards preventing disease transmission.
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news.cals.wisc.edu New community resource could create novel ways to stop the spread of pathogens carried by mosquitoes