Congratulations to Dr. Weiwei Han on the presentation of her Ph.D. thesis defense “Molecular mechanisms that promote fitness of a mammalian gut symbiotic bacterium”. Weiwei entered the Yale School of Medicine graduate program in Microbiology in 2016 and has been a member of the Groisman Lab in the Microbial Sciences Institute and Department of Microbial Pathogenesis.
Please also view her publications:
- A Master Regulator of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Gut Colonization Controls Carbohydrate Utilization and an Alternative Protein Synthesis Factor
- Dietary sugar silences a colonization factor in a mammalian gut symbiont
We wish Weiwei a long and successful scientific career!
Submitted by Jennifer Aronson on August 10, 2022