Morgan named Deibel Fellow

Morgan has been named the 2026 recipient of the Robert H. and Carol L. Deibel Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Probiotic Research! This prestigious FRI fellowship offers a generous stipend and research funds. Congratulations to Morgan!

JP named director of FRI!

We are excited to announce that JP is now the director of the Food Research Institute (FRI)! The FRI is a leader in identifying and resolving food safety issues to meet community, government and industry …

mBio featured image!

Congratulations to In Young, Jeehwan, and Zhiying for their research published recently in mBio. Their work was selected for the featured image of the edition! “A cartoon of glowing bacteria passing through the gastrointestinal tract. …

VPL on Twitter!

Finally, we took the plunge! The van Pijkeren laboratory is on Twitter. We hope to connect with many colleagues in the field, share interesting articles and tweets, and -of course- share our latest news and …

VPL in the news

The Van Pijkeren Laboratory is featured in several news articles that were recently published. MIT Technology Review published the article Edible CRISPR could replace antibiotics. Around the same time, the article Antibiotic alternatives, delivered by friendly microbes appeared …

An exciting year!

Looking back at 2016, it has been an exciting year, no doubt! For starters, we had our website launched to showcase our work! We are very proud of the final product, and we will continue …

Welcome to our new website

  We’re very excited to have a new website! Check it out to meet the members of the van Pijkeren Laboratory, and to learn more about our research. We hope to keep you up to …