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Want to join our team? We are recruiting a Research Associate/Lab Manager to work on bacterial pathogenesis research.

Apply: https://jobs.montana.edu/postings/44973
Deadline: January 21, 2025

Apply now for an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) at Montana State University! 🔬🧫Research microbial communities in low oxygen environments.

Program Dates: May 27 - Aug 2, 2025
Applications due: Feb. 13, 2025

Cole SL, Jennings LK. The Biofilm Blueprint: Exopolysaccharide Form and Function in Bacterial Biofilms. In Biofilm Matrix 2024 Nov 19 (pp. 1-42). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Charlotte & Evelyn have joined our lab as undergraduate research assistants.

Dr. Jennings accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology.

Autumn is headed to graduate school at Eastern Carolina University to study microbial ecology on shipwrecks.

Dr. Jennings was selected as a panelist with other MSU engineering alumni at the networking event.

How do bacteria sense heat? We are grateful to be a part of this collaboration with researchers at the University of Calgary.

UM RESEARCH REVEALS HOW BACTERIA DEFEAT DRUGS THAT FIGHT CYSTIC FIBROSIS. University of Montana researchers and their partners have discovered a slimy strategy used by bacteria to defeat antibiotics and other drugs used to combat infections afflicting people with cystic fibrosis.

Our grant entitled, "Epigenetics and programmed heterogeneity in drug-resistant bacteria" was renewed for another year!

Audrey and Devin were awarded summer internships through the Center for Translational Medicine to conduct research on antibacterial vaccines. Congrats!