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Professor David Masopust received the 2026 American Association of Immunology (AAI) Meritorious Career Award! This award recognizes a mid-career scientist for outstanding research contributions to...

A new Phase I clinical trial (NCT05338658; clinicaltrials.gov) at the University of Minnesota

Since the spring of 2022, postdoctoral researchers Drs. Frances Shepherd and Pètra Vande Zande have worked together to offer hands-on bioinformatics workshops for members of the Department of...

Department Head, Michael Gale, PhD, was one of the Medical School’s 2025 Dean’s Distinguished Research Lecture (DDRL) honorees. This is the sixth time in twelve years that DMI faculty have had this...

Congratulations to the MICaB Spring Travel Grant recipients! These students will receive $1,000 in travel funds: Grant Hickock (Stromnes lab), Tristan Neal (Langlois lab), Sookyong Joo (Farrar lab),...

Zoe Schmiechen a MICaB graduate student in the Stromnes lab, has been chosen as a recipient of the 2025 Bacaner Research Award. The Dr. Marvin and Hadassah Bacaner Research Awards program encourages...

Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the small fraction of the global research scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research. This...

Dr. Ruth Isenberg, postdoctoral researcher in DMI, received the prestigious Nat Sternberg Award from the annual Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage Meeting “for outstanding PhD work in the field...

We are delighted to share that Department of Microbiology and Immunology faculty member Dr. Leslie Schiff has been awarded the annual Award for Faculty Contribution to Honors Education. The UHP is...

Department of Microbiology and Immunology faculty member Dr. Anthony Baughn has been named the new director of the Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) Program. Read more about Dr. Baughn's new role here....

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is pleased to announce that Petra Vande Zande, Post-Doctoral Associate with the Anna Selmecki lab, has been awarded a fellowship from the Jane Coffin...

Katrina Jackson has been announced as the winner of this year's MICaB program Bacaner Research Award. The Dr. Marvin and Hadassah Bacaner Research Awards in the basic medical sciences recognize...

You can read Dr. Haase's latest publication, The Defenders of the Alveolus Succumb in COVID-19 Pneumonia to SARS-CoV-2 and Necroptosis, Pyroptosis and Panoptosis, published in the...

Check out the write up in WIRED detailing the fascinating research Dr. Masopust and his lab have been conducting on rodents' immune T cells here.

On Saturday, May 14th, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology celebrated the graduation of our class of 2022. Congratulations to all!

Kirsten Nielsen was acknowledged in a Tweet by Expertscape.

Meagan Rollins has been selected by the Microbiology & Immunology faculty to receive the 2021-2022 Dennis W. Watson Fellowship

Congratulations to Dana Davis on his new role as undergraduate research coordinator for the College

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is the proud recipient of the Excellence Award in Gender Equity in Medicine and Science (GEMS) from the Center for Women in Medicine and Science (CWIMS)

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology are seeking a scientist working in the area of virology