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
Professor Eduardo Groisman, of the Yale Microbial Sciences Institute and Yale School of Medicine Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, has been elected a new member of the...
When pathogens invade a human host, they need maximum ability to move through the body as they navigate adverse environments and cause infection. Their ability to drill...
Scientists at Yale’s Microbial Sciences Institute have taken an important step in our understanding of how infection alters proteins in a way that promotes tumor growth.
A...
65 Fellows - including Yale Microbial Sciences Institute Professor Andrew Goodman - Elected into the American Academy of Microbiology
Washington, DC – February 15, 2022 – In...
Nikhil Malvankar, a member of the Microbial Sciences Institute, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale School of Medicine...
Postdoctoral positions are available in the Liu lab in the Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale University to participate in research focused on the structural mechanisms of...
A hair-like protein hidden inside bacteria serves as a sort of on-off switch for nature’s “electric grid,” a global web of bacteria-generated nanowires that permeates all...
Yale Microbial Sciences Institute is proud to support BlackInMicroWeek2021. #BiM2021 https://t.co/2dl1v85p1X
— Andy Goodman (@Goodman_lab) September 2, 2021
Faculty Search Q&A Session
We held a live Q&A session to answer questions about the faculty position and search process, MSI and partnering departments, how we...
Elizabeth J. Culp, PhD, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Andrew L. Goodman, PhD and member of the Microbial Sciences Institute, has been awarded a Damon Runyon Cancer...