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We are grateful to receive support from the following sources:
National Institutes of Health
US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
UW Institute of Clinical and Translational Research (UW ICTR)
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
Food Research Institute, UW-Madison
BioGaia®
American Cancer Society / UW Carbon Cancer Center
Recent Posts
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!
May 14, 2026JP 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 …
March 2, 2026VPL at the GRC
In Young, Jeehwan, Mark, and Morgan were all selected as speakers at the 2025 Gordon Research Conference and Seminar Lactic Acid Bacteria Biology, Symbioses and Applications. A massive thank you to the co-chairs- especially JP- …
July 19, 2025A probiotic with reduced colonization potential
Congratulations to Laura, Saima, Theresa, Jee-Hwan, Mark, In Young , and Morgan for their work published in AEM! This paper characterized our lab’s creation of the LR6475 Nonuple strain, a mutant with nine genes encoding …
November 3, 2024mBio 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. …
December 1, 2023