Image: The broad-based training afforded by the UGA Microbiology graduate program remains in great demand, and the last two years our program has expanded considerably. Since 2010 we have grown from forty-six to fifty-eight graduate students. We also added seven new trainers to our graduate program, including Zack Lewis, Jorge Escalante-Semerena, Fred Quinn, Mike Terns, Silvia Moreno, Jonathan Frye, and Biao He. In January of 2013 we welcome three additional graduate trainers in Liz Ottesen, Diana Downs, and Erin Lipp. Four of these trainers are faculty in the Microbiology Department, while six are “courtesy appointments” to our graduate program residing in other Departments. The breadth of our program is reflected in this mix, as just over half of our research trainers are faculty in other Departments at UGA and nearly a quarter of our graduate students now perform their research with these faculty. The expansion of trainers in various areas of microbiology gives our students more options in choosing a research lab and builds on our tradition as a department that values all the sub-disciplines Microbiology has to offer. Tags: News
