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New MSI Faculty
July 25, 2023
The Yale Microbial Sciences Institute is pleased to welcome two new faculty members. Hualiang Pi, Ph.D. will open her lab as an assistant professor at MSI in partnership with...
Andrew Goodman
July 6, 2023
Andrew Goodman, PhD, C.N.H. Long Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and director of the Yale Microbial Sciences Institute, has been appointed chair of the Department of...
Microbial Sciences Institute Retreat 2023
June 3, 2023
The Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale University held its third annual retreat on Friday, June 2, 2023.  MSI members, including 40 postdoctoral researchers, graduate...
Stavroula Hatzios
May 16, 2023
Stavroula Hatzios, assistant professor in the departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Chemistry at Yale University, is one of three scientists...
Boosting survival of a beneficial bacterium in the human gut
March 17, 2023
The microbes that inhabit the gut are critical for human health, and understanding the factors that encourage the growth of beneficial bacterial species — known as “good”...
Malvankar Interview Biophysical Society TV
March 10, 2023
Nikhil Malvankar, a member of the  Microbial Sciences Institute and Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale School of Medicine, was interviewed...
EMBO J. 2022 Dec. Gut colonization by Bacteroides requires translation by an EF-G paralog lacking GTPase activity.
January 10, 2023
A postdoctoral position is available in the Groisman Lab in the Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale University to investigate novel molecular mechanisms promoting fitness of...