We are excited by Favour Nwankpa and Wencheng Li  joining our lab. Welcome!

Our REU and GCR students at the end of their 10-week summer research (and their poster presentations)

They did such a fantastic job! Congratulations!

Congratulations to Tim Michaels! Oh, sorry! Dr. Michaels!! 

I am so proud of you

Tim Michaels at his dissertation defense. Great defense presentation!

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Hooray to Tim!

Our undergraduate student Olivia Stala (to the left) successfully defended her honors thesis project. She was mentored in the lab by Whitni Redman (to the right).

Our undergraduate student Lauren Unterreiner (to the right) successfully defended her honors thesis project. She was mentored in the lab by Victoria Oladosu (to the left).

Dinner by members of the Biofilm group at the ASM Biofilms conference in Charlotte

Proudly presenting the newly minted Dr. Matthew Kaleta

Dr. Manmohit Kalia joined the lab as a postdoctoral research associate. He joined us a bit later than initially planned because of COVID-19 and arrived during the worst of the pandemic but we are glad he made it.

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Dr. Kathryn Cherny started her new position as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago at Northwestern University. 

All our best wishes! And you will be missed!

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Dr. Jozef Dingemans accepted a faculty position at the University of Maastricht. 

Wish you all the best with starting your new lab! Congratulations!

And thank you for 3 productive and fun-filled years at Binghamton.

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Matt Kaletta, a 4th year graduate student in the Sauer lab, is presenting his exctiting research findings on biofilm drug tolerance at the Biological Sciences Departmental seminar.

Dr. James Goodwine, a former graduate student in the lab, has accepted a postdoc position in Dr. Clarissa Nobile's lab at the University of California Merced. Hooray to Jim!

Emma Glynn, an undergraduate student in our lab, was awarded the Dr. Joseph J. Eron '80 Undergraduate Scholarship.   Congratulations, Emma!

Dr. Soyoung Park and Dr. Kathryn Cherny have joined the lab as postdoctoral research associates

The Sauer lab attended the 8th ASM conference on biofilms in Washington, DC, and presented 5 posters. Overall, 11 members of the Biofilm group presented at this conference.

Kathryn Cherny and James (Jim) Goodwine have successfully defended their Dissertations. Jim attended the hooding ceremony this year while Katie will attend

next Spring.

Dr. Olga Petrova accepted a position at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnershipsat Binghamton University. Congratulations, Olga!

Hooray to Kathryn Cherny who is now her own boss. Kathryn launched a new start-up company named microBella that is pairing her expertise in microbiology and her love of cosmetics to develop skincare products that are made using a combination of traditional soap-making techniques and cutting-edge science. See Skin in the Game.

James (Jim) Goodwine presented his research at the Departmental seminar. 

Jacob Chambers, a former postdoc in the lab, accepted a faculty position  at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Buffalo. Congratulations, Jake!

Four of our graduate students from the biofilm group graduated this Spring. Among them was Bandita Poudyal (2nd from the left) who defended her PhD dissertation in December 2016.