MGM News

MGM graduate student Briana Davis has received two awards for her leadership in developing and implementing a new professional development program called Science Career Investigation and Professionalism Training (SCRIPT) .

Learn more about the tissues that ended up in the lab of Douglas Marchuk, PhD.

This award will support Chin Yee’s Ph.D. research as he studies how Clostridium immunis, a commensal bacterial species, suppresses fat gain via altering systemic immunometabolism.

 We are pleased to announce that So Young Kim, PhD, has been named director of the Microbiome Core Facility, effective January 8, 2022.

Varsha Singh, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics at the Indian Institute of Science and alumnus of the Alejandro Aballay was awarded a Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Senior Fellowship.

MGM graduate students Jeff Bourgeois, Jr. (Ko Lab) and Dan Snellings (Marchuk Lab) have been selected as recipients of the 2021-2022 Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (CARE).

Jeff Letourneau (David Lab) and his work were the subject of the article “How much fiber should you eat? A Duke graduate student forages for the answer” not long ago, and will be highlighted in the “ICYMI” communication sent out by the School of Medicine.

Joseph Heitman, James B. Duke Professor and Chair of MGM and Tri-I MMPTP  Director, who was one of two Duke Faculty members elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Please join in congratulating Nick Heaton and Dong Yan, whose promotions to Associate Professor with tenure were recently approved by the Duke Board of Trustees.

Dr. Yong-Sun Bahn, who is alumni of the Joe Heitman lab at Duke, has been recently appointed as Underwood Distinguished Professor by Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.