News

Fall 2026

Congratulations to Conor Pulliam, Mingming Xu, Katherine Holandez-Lopez, Dan Xue, Hanyu Xiao, and Leilei Gou on their paper being accepted by Nature Communications!
Congratulations to Michael Madden and Conor Pulliam on winning their respective College of Pharmacy Graduate Students Endowed Fellowship!

Summer 2026

Congratulations to Jie Li on winning American Society of Pharmacognosy Matt Suffness Young Investigator's Award!

Congratulations to Conor Pulliam and Katherine Holandez-Lopez for presenting their work at the SIMB Annual Conference!

Congratulations to Katherine Holandez-Lopez and Conor Pulliam for being selected as oral presenters for the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) 2026 Annual Meeting and Exhibition!
Congratulations to Jie Li on giving an invited talk in the American Chemical Society Webinar in recognition of the World Microbiome Day!

We welcome new visiting scholar, Dr. Jingsheng Jiang to the lab.

Congratulations to Michael Madden, Dan Xue, Mingming Xu, and Katherine Holandez-Lopez on their paper being accepted into the PNAS journal!

We welcome new undergraduate intern, George Xu to the lab. 

We welcome new undergraduate intern, Alexis Manzano to the lab.

We welcome new post-doctoral research fellow, Hengbo Wu to the lab.

Spring 2026

Congratulations to Jie Li on winning College of Pharmacy P1 Teaching Excellence Award!
Congratulations to Michael Madden on presenting at the CellPress Symposia: Host-microbiome dynamics held in May in Bruges, Belgium!
Congratulations to Michael Madden for being selected to attend the Building Future Faculty Program at North Carolina State University in March！
We welcome new graduate student Hanyu Xiao to the lab.
We welcome new undergraduates, Henry Tian and Joe Griffith to the lab.
We welcome new post-doctoral research fellow, Xiuting Wei to the lab.
We welcome new laboratory assistant, Page Ellingson to the lab.
We welcome new pharmacy student, Lisa Yang to the lab.
Congratulations to Roger Freidl on presenting his research at Pharmacy Research Excellence Day and winning the award for Best Undergraduate Abstract!

Fall 2025

The Li Lab moves from the University of South Carolina to the University of Texas at Austin! 

Congratulations to Michael Madden on giving an oral presentation at the 2025 American Society for Microbiology ABRCMS Conference!
Congratulations to Joseph Budiselich on winning a Best Poster Award at the 2025 American Society for Microbiology ABRCMS Conference!
We welcome new undergraduates, Roger Freidl, Param Bajaj, and Adrian Quintana to the lab.