Lab News
June 2025: MS student James Jeffrey receives Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant
May 2025: Graduate Students' Erin Harrelson and James Jeffrey receive 1st and 2nd place in the poster competition for first-year students at UMD Nutrition and Food Science Research Day 2025
April 2025: Postdoc Dr. Mairui Gao awarded UMD Postdoctoral Conference Support Award to present research at ASM Microbe 2025
March 2025: Postdoc Dr. Mairui Gao selected as finalist for IAFP 2025 Developing Scientist Technical Abstract
February 2025: PhD student Qingyue Zeng receives UMD Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award
November 2024: PhD student Erin Harrelson receives second place in poster competition for ‘One-Health’ section at AGNR Cornerstone Symposium
October 2024: PhD student Qingyue Zeng receives 2025 UMD Global STEWARDS Fellowship
August 2024: Welcome new graduate students, Erin Harrelson and James Jeffrey!
August 2024: USDA-NIFA AFRI grant (co-PI, PI: Dr. Abani Pradhan)
July 2024: Postdoc Dr. Mairui Gao receives travel award to present at American Society for Microbiology, Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics Pipelines
May 2024: PhD student Qingyue Zeng receives UMD Microbiome Center of Excellence summer scholarship
May 2024: Undergraduate student researcher Derek Konsen receives AGNR award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Nutrition and Food Science
January 2024: Welcome Postdoc Dr. Mairui Gao!
February 2024: USDA-NRCS grant (co-PI, PI: Dr. Rohan Tikekar)
February 2024: AGNR Fearlessly Forward award to lab (PI)
August 2023: Welcome PhD student Qingyue Zeng!
August 2023: USDA-NIFA AFRI grant to lab (PI)
January 2023: MAES project award to lab (PI)
August 2022: Blaustein Lab opens at UMD!
