MGSO News

IM Fall Welcome Picnic

October 27, 2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s Interdepartmental Microbiology Fall Welcome Picnic! It was great to reconnect, meet new members of the community, and enjoy an evening of good food and our bocce ball competition!

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MGSO Attends ASM 2024

June 18, 2024

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Fall 2023 Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) conference

November 9, 2023

MGSO recently participated in the Fall 2023 Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) conference. During the conference highschoolers from all across Iowa participated in various science exercises.

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Interdepartmental Microbiology Graduate Program Fall 2021 Newsletter

December 20, 2021

As the semester comes to a close we’d like to highlight and celebrate some of the amazing work and achievements of the graduate students and faculty in the Interdepartmental Microbiology Graduate Program!

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Welcoming the incoming cohort of students

September 30, 2021

MGSO would like to welcome the Interdepartmental Microbiology Cohort of Fall 2021.

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Recent Publications and Presentations by IM Students and Faculty - July 2021

August 3, 2021

"'Candidatus Chlorobium masyteum', a novel photoferrotrophic green sulfur bacterium enriched from a ferruginous meromictic lake.", and "Congruence testing to validate narrow-band concept inventories in genetics".

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Recent Publications by IM Students and Faculty - May 2021

June 1, 2021

"Construction of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniaeP97 Null Mutants" and "Teaching in the Time of COVID-19: Creation of a Digital Internship to Develop Scientific Thinking Skills and Create Science Literacy Exercises for Use in Remote Classrooms".

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Recent Publications by IM Students and Faculty - April 2021

April 2, 2021

"Vaginal microbiome and serum metabolite differences in late gestation commercial sows at risk for pelvic organ prolapse", and "Xylanase Supplementation Modulates the Microbiota of the Large Intestine of Pigs Fed Corn-Based Fiber by Means of a Stimbiotic Mechanism of Action".

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Recent Publications by IM Students and Faculty - March 2021

March 15, 2021

"Comparison of ZMAC and MARC-145 Cell Lines for Improving Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Isolation from Clinical Samples.", "Rumen Epithelial Communities Share a Core Bacterial Microbiota: A Meta-Analysis of 16S rRNA Gene Illumina MiSeq Sequencing Datasets.", and more.

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Recent Publications by IM Students and Faculty - February 2021

February 1, 2021

"Susceptibility of Domestic Swine to Experimental Infection with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2.", “The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans.”, and more.

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