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Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Book Chapter Published!

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.

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We are hiring! September 2024

Want to join our team? We are recruiting graduate students and a lab manager/researcher. Email cover letter and CV/resume to laura.jennings@montana.edu.

Welcome to the team, Evelyn & Charlotte!

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

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We have moved to Montana State!

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

Congrats to Autumn on getting accepted into graduate school!

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

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https://www.montana.edu/news/22680/montana-state-marks-20-years-of-progress-bringing-women-to-engineering-and-computer-science

MSU Women in Engineering Dinner celebrates 20 years!

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

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22176-2

Collaboration Spotlight

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

https://www.umt.edu/news/2021/02/022521bact.php

UM News story on our research

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.

https://www.umt.edu/translational-medicine/internships.php

Students awarded summer internships

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

https://inbre.montana.edu/

Montana INBRE grant funded!

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

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