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PhD Candidates
April 22, 2024
We are pleased to announce that two members of the Yale Microbial Sciences Institute will soon receive a Ph.D. in Microbiology, a track within the Yale Combined Program in...
Bacterial nanowires
March 20, 2024
How do cells put electrons to rest? Using a minimal pathway to get rid of excess metabolic electrons, diverse environmentally important microbes overcome large spatial,...
Malvankar lab - nanowires
March 11, 2024
Live Wires Living things generate electrons as a byproduct of metabolism. As humans, we get rid of excess electrons through breathing in oxygen. But not all living things...
Andrew Goodman
February 26, 2024
February 26, 2024     Fourteen members of the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) faculties have been elected to the...
Stavroula Hatzios
February 22, 2024
ACS Infectious Diseases has announced its inaugural Early Career Board (ECB). The Microbial Sciences Institute’s Stavroula Hatzios, associate professor of molecular,...
Top row from left, Eduardo Dávila, Stavroula Hatzios, and Ryota Iijima. Bottom row from left, Junliang Shen and Zhou Fan.
February 20, 2024
Yale’s Eduardo Dávila, Zhou Fan, Stavroula Hatzios, Ryota Iijima, and Junliang Shen receive Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize early career excellence. The Alfred P...
Geobacter nanowires (David S. Goodsell)
February 8, 2024
Recent work from the Malvankar lab at the Yale Microbial Sciences Institute has been selected as Molecule of the Month by Protein Data Bank. The data center hosts the global...