Microbial Sciences Institute
Director’s Welcome
Thank you for your interest in the Microbial Sciences Institute (MSI).
We live in a world of bacteria, viruses, and other microbes. Infectious diseases shape human history and present critical challenges around the world. We’re beginning to appreciate how the enormous microbial communities in our gut microbiome and elsewhere can determine our health, susceptibility to disease, and response to treatment. Microbes provide the chemical diversity that is the foundation of modern medicine and many industrial processes, control the world’s climate and food supply, and continue to reveal fundamental processes in molecular biology, ecology, and evolution.
The MSI, located at Yale West Campus, provides a central hub where students and faculty bring diverse perspectives and expertise to push the boundaries of microbiology. The institute promotes interaction and collaboration through regular seminars from lab members and international leaders in microbiology, off-site retreats, and informal discussions among evolutionary biologists, biophysicists, chemists, geneticists, and others focused on understanding the microbial world.
I hope you enjoy our website. Please explore MSI research and MSI news and visit often for updates.
Sincerely,
Andy
Andrew Goodman, PhD
Director, Microbial Sciences Institute
C.N.H. Long Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
News
The Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale West Campus is proud to support and serve as a sponsor of Black in Microbiology, an essential forum for the discussion of racial...
Scientists at Yale have unlocked a 50-year puzzle of how certain bacteria spread harmful disease.
Published today in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, scholars from...
The 2019-20 Awards for Outstanding Teaching Fellow in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale School of Medicine have been announced by the Graduate Education Committee...
The ocean floor and the ground beneath our feet are riddled with tiny nanowires — 1/100,000 the width of a human hair — created by billions of bacteria that can generate...
From the creation of a single droplet to the flow of a river and the world’s hydrological cycle, how water binds together, and to different surfaces, has far-reaching...
Stavroula Hatzios, assistant professor in the departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Chemistry, is one of 10 scientists nationally to be named a...
Congratulations to the organizers and presenters of the second annual All Points West symposium on a wonderfully successful series of virtual events. Our particular...
Stavroula Hatzios, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Chemistry in the Yale Microbial Sciences Institute, has been named a Microbiome...
Andrew Goodman, PhD, C. N. H. Long Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Director of the Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale West Campus, studies the abundant flora in the...
Andrew Goodman, the C.N.H. Long Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Director of the Microbial Sciences Institute (MSI), has received the 2020 John J. Abel Award in...
