August 10, 2026 – Emily Gee joins the Peters lab!

June 24, 2026 – Chandler passes his prelim!

August 22, 2025 – Amy E. S. receives the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy Award for Communicating PhD Research to the Public!

August 12, 2025 – Nischala passes her prelim!

June 23, 2025 – Jin Komerska officially joins the Peters lab!

June 6, 2025 – Amy E. S. successfully defends her thesis!

May 21, 2025 – Amy E.S. receives the GLBRC Mentoring Award!

Apr 7, 2025 – Andrew Steinberger joins the Peters lab!

Mar 17, 2025 – Dave Aceti joins the Peters lab!

Dec 17, 2024 – Ryan successfully defends his thesis!

Dec 1, 2024 – Chandler Holschbach joins the Peters lab!

Sept 1, 2024 – Nachiketa Bairagi joins the Peters lab!

Aug 23, 2024 – Jennifer receives the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy Award for Communicating PhD Research to the Public!

Aug 19, 2024 – Santosh obtains a faculty position at McMurry University!

Aug 1, 2024 – Jennifer successfully defends her thesis!

July 29, 2024 – Emily successfully defends her thesis!

July 15, 2024 – Amy B. is selected to give an oral presentation at the Gordon Microbial Stress Response conference!

June 14, 2024 – Jason is selected to give an oral presentation at the ASM Microbe meeting!

May 30, 2024 – Rodrigo is selected for the Biotechnology Training Program!

Apr 23, 2024 – Amy E. wins the Jennifer L. Reed Bioenergy Science Award!

Apr 1, 2024 – Bryce Davis joins the Peters Lab!

Jan 2, 2024 – Santosh Kumar joins the Peters Lab!

Dec 13, 2023 – Nischala Nadig and Rodrigo Cuellar join the Peters Lab!

Dec 4, 2023 – Jin Komerska joins the Peters Lab . . . in summer 2025 after finishing medical school!

Sept 22, 2023 – The Peters Lab is awarded an ARPA-H grant to combat antimicrobial resistance!

July 3, 2023 – The Peters Lab is awarded a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) (R35) from NIGMS!

June 30, 2023 – Amy E. is selected to give an oral presentation at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting!

June 29, 2023 – Bill is awarded a full registration waiver for the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting!

June 21, 2023 – Ashley receives an Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32) from NIGMS!

May 24, 2023 – Bill passes his prelim!

May 17, 2023 – Amy B. and Ashley win poster awards at the GLBRC Annual Science Meeting!

April 18, 2023 – Ryan is selected to give an oral presentation at the 13th Symposium on the Biology of Acinetobacter!

April 17, 2023 – Jennifer is awarded a Graduate Student Service Scholarship from UW–Madison!

April, 2023 – Jennifer received job offers from the top three consulting firms!

March 20, 2023 – Ryan receives the Stone Travel Award from UW–Madison!

Dec 20, 2022 – Amy B. is awarded an Academic Staff Professional Development Grant!

Sept 26, 2022 – Bill wins the UW–Madison Cool Science Image Contest!

May 27, 2022 – Bill is selected for the Biotechnology Training Program!

June 8, 2022 – The Bondy-Denomy, Swaney, and Peters Labs are awarded a collaborative R01 from NIAID!

May 20, 2022 – Jennifer wins the Perlman Symposium Lightning Talk Award!

May 19, 2022 – Ashley wins the GLBRC ASM Lightning Talk Award!

May 6, 2022 – Jason wins Teacher of the Year awards from PharmD and PharmTox students!

Apr 22, 2022 – Erick wins the Jack L. Pate Undergraduate Travel Award!

Apr 22, 2022 – Erick wins a Hilldale Research Fellowship!

Apr, 2022 – Emily scores a paid internship at Promega over the summer!

Feb 18, 2022 – Amy E. wins second place and people’s choice at UW–Madison for her 3 minute thesis talk!

Feb 11, 2022 – Amy E. scores a paid internship at Cargill over the summer!

Feb 4, 2022 – Amy E. was featured in the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center Weekly newsletter!

Dec 13, 2021 – Ashley Hall – GLBRC Keegstra Postdoc – joins the Peters and Donohue labs!

Dec 6, 2021 – Bill Heelan joins the Peters and Rose labs!

June, 2021 – Jennifer awarded competitive internship at Air Force Research Laboratory!

June 8, 2021 – Ryan passes his prelim!

May 20, 2021 – Amy E. passes her prelim!

Mar 23, 2021 – Amy E. is awarded an NSF GRFP!

Jan 31, 2021 – Kyle leaves the lab for his dream job at IDT. We’ll miss you!

Dec 17, 2020 – Amy B., Ryan, Jennifer, and Emily’s Mobile-CRISPRi methods paper published in Curr Protoc Microbiol. (link)

Nov 10, 2020 – Amy B. and Amy E.’s Zymomonas mobilis CRISPRi work published in Appl Environ Microbiol. (link)

Aug 7, 2020 – Jennifer passes her prelim!

Jul 23, 2020 – Emily passes her prelim!

Jul 5, 2020 – Kyle Kinney – GLBRC Keegstra Postdoc – joins the Peters and Donohue labs!

Jun 11, 2020 – (Part of) the lab returns from the COVID-19 shutdown.

Mar 17, 2020 – Wet lab activity suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Dec 17, 2019 – Lab holiday lunch at The Old Fashioned!

Dec 6, 2019 – Amy Enright and Ryan Ward join the lab!

Nov 29, 2019 – Lab Thanksgiving lunch at the Probstein House.

Aug 24, 2019 – Lab tie dye day!

Aug 5, 2019 – Amy, Emily, and Jennifer present posters at the Phage Meeting!

July 8, 2019 – Lab trip to Devil’s Lake!

June 23, 2019 – Jason chairs the CRISPR tools session at ASM Microbe!

April 20, 2019 – Tim Ollmann joins the Peters lab!

April 10, 2019 – Jennifer and Emily present their poster at the Wisconsin capitol!

February 19, 2019 – Jason presents work from the lab at the Keystone Symposium on Genome Engineering!

February 8, 2019 – Emily and Jennifer win a Pharmaceutical Sciences poster prize!

January 7, 2019 – Our Mobile-CRISPRi paper is published in Nature Microbiology!

December 16, 2018 – Emily Bacon joins the Peters lab!

December 11, 2018 – Jennifer Tran joins the Peters lab!

November 30, 2018 – Peters lab joins the Great Lakes Bioenergy Center!

November 6, 2018 – Elizabeth, Mary Hannah, and Yuge start their rotations!

October 24, 2018 – Jason becomes an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology!

October 9, 2018 – Annika, Emily, and Jennifer start their rotations!

August 20, 2018 – Lab start / Amy Banta joins the Peters lab / Jason becomes an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Bacteriology!