Center for Teaching and Learning Program Manager Aiyana Bobrownicki has enrolled for graduate school at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Congratulations, Aiyana!

As of February 1, 2017, Jo Handelsman will be the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. More information about her role at WID here.

Handelsman Lab Graduate Student Gabriel Lozano et al. were published in ASM’s Genome Announcements. The article titled “Draft genome sequence of biocontrol agent Bacillus cereus UW85” can be accessed on the Genome Announcements website here. Congratulations to Gabriel and the co-authors!

Past Handelsman Lab Graduate Student Jonathan Holt has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Keck Science Department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges in Claremont, CA. He will be teaching an introduction biology and microbiology course. Congratulations, Jon!

Past Handelsman Lab Postdoc Tiffany Tsang was recently appointed as a STEM Education Specialist in University of Hawaii’s Office of STEM Education. Congratulations, Tiffany!

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in collaboration with Federal agencies and private-sector stakeholders, announced a new National Microbiome Initiative (NMI) to foster the integrated study of microbiomes across different ecosystems. More information can be found in the press release here.

Past Handelsman Lab Graduate Student Elizabeth Stulberg and current Graduate Student Gabriel Lozano are co-first authors on an article published in Frontiers in Microbiology titled “Genomic and secondary metabolite analyses of Streptomyces sp. 2AW provide insight into the evolution of the cycloheximide pathway.” The article can be accessed on the