| People: Dr. Judith Berman has been awarded a Distinguished McKnight Professorship for 2008. Her research focuses on a Jekyll-and-Hyde group of microorganisms, "crafty yeast". Dr. Russell Johnson has been honored by the establishment of the Russell C. Johnson, Ph.D. Endowed Research Fund. The Minnesota Medical Foundation was able to establish this fund with a generous gift from Dr. Johnson's long-time friend Dr. George Krienke. The fund will be used to carry forward the legacy of Dr. Johnson's outstanding work by supporting research in the area of bacterial pathogenesis. Dr. Gary Dunny has been selected to receive the 2008 American Society for Microbiology Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award. Dr. Dunny will receive the award at the ASM General Meeting in Boston, on June 2, 2008. Congratulations!
In an interview in the October 2007 issue of Transform, a joint publication of the U of M's Academy of Distinguished Teachers (Twin Cities) and the Center for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Leslie Schiff describes her efforts to use her teaching experiments in the classroom to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning. At the September 2007 Meeting of the International Leptospirosis Society held in Quito, Ecuador, the meeting's Organizing Committee recognized Dr. Russell C. Johnson for his invaluable contribution to the understanding of Leptospira and other Spirochetes. This well-deserved recognition underscores Dr. Johnson's pioneering work in the field. The Department is very pleased to announce the addition of Drs. Kirsten Nielsen and David Masopust to the faculty effective July 1 and September 1, 2007, respectively. Dr. Patrick Schlievert was voted the Medical School Year One Distinguished Teacher of the Year for 2007. Mark Anderson is the 2007 recipient of the Minnesota Medical Foundation Bacaner Research Award in Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology. Mark is a Ph.D. student in Sandy Armstrong's lab. The Bacaner Award was established by Dr. Marvin Bacaner, Professor of Physiology, in memory of his parents, to recognize excellence in creative basic science research. Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Bond for his selection as a 2007-2009 McKnight Land Grant Professor. Dr. Bond, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and the Biotechnology Institute, is one of 10 2007-2009 recipients of this award, designed to advance the careers of our most promising junior faculty. More information can be found at http://www.grad.umn.edu/faculty-staff/mcknight/land_grant.html Professor Daniel Bond is among the people whose work is featured in the University's Driven to Discover campaign. Congratulations to 2007 D.W. Watson Fellowship recipient Katie Ballering. | 
| Research: Microbiology professors Daniel Bond and Jeff Gralnick discover the key for converting waste to electricity.
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Check out the publication:
Shewanella secretes flavins that mediate extracellular electron transfer Emeritus Professor Martin Dworkin's Microbe cover article on "Lingering
Puzzles about Myxobacteria" can be found in the January 2007 issue of Microbe or online In the April 2006 issue of Nature Medicine (12:384-386), Professor Pat Cleary highlights an important study that explains the genetic basis for the transition of group A strep from the cause of a bothersome strep throat to a more dangerous pathogen that causes "flesh-eating" wound infections.
Departmental: The 2009 Microbiology Retreat will be held August 31 - September 1, 2009. See Photos from August 2007 Microbiology Retreat See Photos from August 2008 Microbiology Retreat
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