Nancy A. Moran

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  • Congratulations to Moran lab undergraduates, Sabrina Sakurako Rinaldi on winning the Science Slam and Sylvia Tanguma on winning Best Presentation at the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium (FURS) (October 2024)

  • Congratulations to Zheng Li (Postdoctoral Fellow) on his new position of Assistant Professor at Miami University in Ohio. (August 2024)

  • Congratulations to Korin Jones (Stengl Wyer Scholar & Postdoctoral Fellow), on being awarded "Postdoc Talk Award" at the 9th Conference on Beneficial Microbes in Madison, WI. (July 2024)

  • Congratulations to graduate student, Laila Phillips on being awarded a University Graduate Continuing Fellowship. (June 2024)

  • Sabrina Sakurako Rinaldi joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. (May 2024)

  • Layne Smith joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. (March 2024)

  • Congratulations to Aadhunik Sundar on being awarded a Fall 2023 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) from the University of Texas. (October 2023)

  • Korin Jones joins the lab as a Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Scholar from the lab of Lisa Belden at Virginia Tech. (September 2023)

  • Hailey Anderson, Alejandro Bernardino, Cinthia Hernandez-Granillo, Sylvia Tanguma, Nazhin Nikaeen, Jay Maganti, and Ethan Yu join the lab as Undergraduate Research Assistants. (September 2023)

  • Congratulations to undergraduate Allen Xue on being awarded a student Honorable Mention for his poster at the Evolution 2023 meeting. (June 2023)

  • Aadhunik Sundar joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. (June 2023)

  • Congratulations to Eli Powell on being a President's Staff Award: 2023 Outstanding Staff Awardee. (May 2023)

  • Congratulations to undergraduate Allen Xue on being awarded a CNS Advanced Summer Research Fellowship. (April 2023)

  • Amanda Tristão Santini joins the lab as a Visiting Researcher. Amanda is a graduate student at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil (March 2023)

  • Congratulations to postdoc PJ Lariviere on being awarded a 2-year USDA/NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship. (March 2023)

  • Congratulations to Nancy Moran on receiving the 2023 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences. (January 2023)

  • Hillary Ovalle and Tiffany Lu join the lab as Undergraduate Research Assistants (October 2022)

  • Kathleen Sotelo joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant (July 2022)

  • Qiang Huang joins the lab as a Senior Research Fellow from Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China (July 2022)

  • Yulin Song joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Andreas Brune at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (July 2022)

  • Freshman Research Initative (FRI) Bugs in Bugs stream publishes in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (June 2022)

  • Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Toby Hammer, on his new job as Assistant Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine. (January 2022)

  • Tyler de Jong joins the lab as a Research Associate. (December 2021)

  • Congratulations to Allen Xue on being awarded a Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) from the University of Texas. (November 2021)

  • Congratulations to graduate student, Julie Perreau, on her new job as Scientist at Berkeley Lights in Emeryville CA. (October 2021)

  • Alejandra Gage joins the lab as a Research Assistant. (October 2021)

  • Congratulations to Jo Holley, Assistant Professor of Practice, on being awarded a Stengl-Wyer grant for Educational Support. (September 2021)

  • Alan E. Silva Cerqueira joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Cynthia Canêdo da Silva at the Federal University of Viçosa - Brazil. (September 2021)

  • Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Thomas Smith, on his new job as Scientist at Zymergen in Emeryville CA. (September 2021)

  • Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow and former graduate student, Sean Leonard, on his new job as Postdoctoral Scientist in the Systems and Synthetic Biology Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (September 2021)>

  • Ryan Arnott a joins the lab as a student associate. (September 2021)

  • PJ Lariviere a joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from Flagship Pioneering (FL72) and lab of Kim Lewis at Northeastern University. (August 2021)

  • Congratulations to Julie Perreau on being awarded a 2021 Stengl-Wyer Graduate Fellowship (July 2021)

  • Radana Molnarova joins the lab as a Research Assistant from the lab of Locke Rowe at the University of Toronto. (June 2021)

  • Mary Kate Kelly, Allen Xue, and Sandeep Manellore join the lab as undergraduate research assistants. (June 2021)

  • Congratulations to postdoc Zheng Li on being awarded a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. (May 2021)

  • Laila Phillips joins the lab as a graduate student in Microbiology. (May 2021)

  • Mallika Singh joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. (February 2021)

  • Zheng Li joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Michael Barker at the University of Arizona. (September 2020)

  • Congratulations to former Moran lab undergrads attending professional or graduate school this fall: Nathalia Delgadillo (University of Texas Austin, School of Public Health, Master's of Public Health-Epidemiology), Tejashwini Gattu (University of North Texas Health Sciences Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine), Brianna Flynn (University of Texas Austin, cell & molecular biology), Edwin Umanzor (University of Arizona, entomology), and Richard Horak (California Institute of Technology, biology). (September 2020)

  • Jerry Maeda joins the lab as a graduate student in Cell and Molecular Biology. (May 2020)

  • Graduate student, Margaret Steele departs for her new job as postdoc in the lab of Joan Strassmann (Department of Biology) at Washington University in St. Louis. (June 2020)

  • Congratulations to Erick da Silva Motta on being awarded the Michael H. Granof Award, the Outstanding Dissertation Award of 2020 for his dissertation on "The Effects of Agrochemicals on the Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees." (April 2020)

  • Profle on Luke Heckmann (Undergraduate Researcher Published in Prestigious Journal) by the Texas Undergraduate Studies (February 2020)

  • Congratulations to Hanna Anderson on being awarded a Spring 2020 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) from the University of Texas. (February 2020)

  • Alan Emanuel Silva Cerqueira joins the lab as a Visiting Researcher from Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil where he is a PhD student in Agricultural Microbiology. (January 2020)

  • Hadis Askari joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. (November 2019)

  • Congratulations to Eli Le on being awarded a Fall 2019 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) from the University of Texas. (October 2019)

  • Congratulations (twice) to Lexie Martin -- she won a TIDES multi-semester undergraduate research scholarship from the San Antonio Livestock Exposition! And her Fluorescent In Situ Microscopy image of bumble bee gut microbiota was selected for the College of Natural Sciences 2019 Visualizing Science competition. (October)

  • Ali Askari joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. (September 2019)

  • Congratulations to former Moran lab undergrads attending graduate school in the upcoming academic year: Steven Salisbury (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Microbiology & Immunology), Andrew Ly (University of California Berkeley, Plant and Microbial Biology), Hyunjin Park (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), and Cody Cole (University of Chicago, Microbiology). (August 2019)

  • Congratulations to former Moran lab technicians attending graduate school in the upcoming academic year: Zachary Shaffer (Wayne State University, MD/PhD program) and Jerry Maeda (University of Texas at Austin, Cell and Molecular Biology). (August 2019)

  • Richelle Reyes joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. (June 2019)

  • Congratulations to postdoc Toby Hammer on being awarded a 2-year USDA/NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship. (May 2019)

  • Devki Patel and Hanna Anderson join the lab as an undergraduate research assistants. (May 2019)

  • Erick Motta was one of two UT graduate students to present work at the Annual Research Symposium of the Harrington Fellows Program, held in Amarillo TX. (April 2, 2019)

  • Congratulations to graduate student, Matthew Schepers, on being awarded an EEB Startup Grant, and congratulations to graduate student, Margaret Steele, on being awarded an EEB DDIG. (April 2019)

  • Congratulations to Luke Heckmann on being awarded a Spring 2019 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) from the University of Texas. (March 2019)

  • Zac Carver joins the lab as a Research Assistant. (February 2019)

  • Congratulations to postdoc Toby Hammer on being awarded an EcoLabs grant. (January 2019)

  • Congratulations to departing postdoctoral fellow, Kerri Coon, on her new job as Assistant Professor at the University Wisconsin, Madison. She starts in January. (December 2018)

  • Congratulations to Daniel Martinez and Richard Horak on being awarded Fall 2018 Undergraduate Research Fellowships (URF) from the University of Texas. (October 2018)

  • Eli Le and Myra Mak join the lab as undergraduate research assistants. (October 2018)

  • Congratulations to Erick da Silva Motta (graduate student) on being awarded a Harrington Graduate Fellowship. (October 2018)

  • Bo Zhang joins the lab as a Visiting Researcher from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. (October 2018)

  • Yiyuan (YY) Li joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Michael Pfrender at the University of Norte Dame. (September 2018)

  • Toby Hammer joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Noah Fierer at the University of Colorado. (September 2018)

  • Matthew Schepers joins the lab as a graduate student in Microbiology and will be co-advised by David Taylor. (May 2018)

  • Hyunjin Park and Tyler de Jong join the lab as undergraduate research assistants. (May 2018)

  • Congratulations to Kerri Coon (postdoctoral fellow) on being awarded a 2-year USDA/NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship. (April 2018)

  • Congratulations to Kim Hammond on being named as a 2018 Outstanding Staff Award Recipient at the University of Texas. (April 2018)

  • Congratulations to Stephen Salsibury on being awarded a Spring 2018 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) from the University of Texas. (February 2018)

  • Congratulations to graduate students, Sean Leonard, Erick V. da Silva Motta, and Margaret Steele, on being awarded University of Texas at Austin, "University Graduate Continuing Fellowships" for the upcoming Fall 2018 - Summer 2019 academic year. (February 2018)

  • Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Hao Zheng, on his new job as Associate Professor at the China Agricultural University, Beijing. (January 2018)

  • Andrew Ly joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. (January 2018)

  • Jerry Maeda joins the lab as an Research Assistant. (January 2018)

  • Congratulations to graduate student, Margaret Steele, on being awarded a NIH - NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship - F31. (January 2018)

  • Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Hao Zheng on being selected as a fellow in the Recruitment Program for Young Professionals (China). (December 2017)

  • Congratulations to departing postdoctoral fellow, Kasie Raymann, on her new job as Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She starts in January. (November 2017)

  • Congratulations to departing postdoctoral fellow, Becky Chong, on her new job as Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She starts in January. (November 2017)

  • Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Tom E. Smith, on being awarded a NIH Ruth Kirschstein NRSA Fellowship. (September 2017)

  • Richard Horak, Kevin Chow, Daniel Martinez, and Nathalia Delgadillo join the lab as an undergraduate research assistants. (September 2017)

  • Congratulations to Nancy Moran on being awarded the 2017 Molecular Ecology Prize from The Molecular Ecologist. (May 2017)

  • Tejashwini Gattu joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. (May 2017)

  • Congratulations to graduating seniors Dat Tran and Nikita Prasad. Both will be attending the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the fall. (May 2017)

  • Kerri Coon joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Michael R. Strand (Dept. of Entomology) at the University of Georgia. (May 2017)

  • Julie Perreau joins the lab as a graduate student in Microbiology. (May 2017)

  • Congratulations to Microbiology Graduate student, Margaret Steele, on being awarded a NSF-DDIG for Competition and cooperation in the honey bee gut microbiota. (May 2017)

  • Former graduate student Waldan Kwong has been selected as a 2017 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. (March 27, 2017)

  • Congratulations to Ecology Evolution and Behavior graduate student, Serena Zhao, on being awarded a Rosemary Grant Award for Graduate Student Research from the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE-RGA). (March 2017)

  • Congratulations to Cell and Molecular Biology graduate student, Sean Leonard and Microbiology graduate student, Margaret Steele on being awarded David Bruton Jr. Graduate School Fellowships for Fall 2017. (March 2017)

  • Tom E. Smith joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Eric Schmidt at the University of Utah. (February 2017)

  • Congratulations to Kasie Raymann (postdoctoral fellow) on being awarded a 2-year USDA/NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship. (January 2017)

  • Stephen Salisbury joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. (January 2017)

  • Postdoctoral fellow, Waldan Kwong departs for his new job as postdoc in the lab of Patrick Keeling (Department of Botany) at the University of British Columbia. (November 2016)

  • Undergraduate researchers Luke Heckmann, Gabriel Espinosa, Aaron Saleen, Edwin Umanzor, and Brianna Flynn join the lab. (September 2016)

  • Research assistant, Amanda Mancenido, leaves for graduate school in the School of Public Health at University of Washington, Seattle. (August 2016)

  • Undergraduate researchers Nikita Prasad and Coral Loockerman join the lab. (July 2016)

  • SMBE has announced Nancy Moran as the 2016 SMBE Lifetime Contribution Award Winner. (April 2016)

  • Congratulations to Microbiology rotation graduate student, Alex Nishida, on being awarded a 2016 NSF-GRFP. (April 2016)

  • Former Yale University undergraduate researcher Katherine Urban-Mead, has been awarded a 2016 NSF-GRFP. She will attend Cornell University in the fall. (April 2016)

  • Zack Shaffer and Gabriel Espinosa have been awarded Spring 2016 Undergraduate Research Fellowships (URF) from the University of Texas. (March 2016)

  • Congratulations to Becky Chong (postdoctoral fellow) on being awarded a 2-year USDA/NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the coevolutionary dynamics of obligate insect symbiosis using pea aphids. (January 2016)

  • Hao Zheng joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Andreas Brune at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology. (January 2016)

  • Blair Mockler and Anne Bolz have been awarded Fall 2015 Undergraduate Research Fellowships (URF) from the University of Texas. (November 2015)

  • Catherine Girard joins the lab as a Fulbright Canada Student from the lab of B. Jessie Sharpiro at the Université de Montréal, Canada. (September 2015)

  • Undergraduate researchers Dat Tran, Darby Richhart, and Eva Frederick join the lab. (September 2015)

  • Alex Lukasiewicz joins the lab as a research assistant. (September 2015)

  • Congratulations to graduate student Waldan Kwong for successfully defending his Ph.D in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University. (August 2015)

  • Postdoctoral fellow, Hauke Koch begins his new job at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens in Surrey, United Kingdom. (August 2015)

  • Postdoctoral fellow, Gordon Bennett begins his new job as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. (July 2015)

  • Congratulations to graduating senior, Nalin Ratnayeke, on being awarded a 2015 NSF-GRFP. He will attend Stanford University in the fall in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology. (June 2015)

  • Sean Leonard joins the lab as a graduate student in Cell and Molecular Biology. (May 2015)

  • Dylan Dey and Dylan Fall join the lab as undergraduate research assistants. (May 2015)

  • Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Blair Mockler on being selected a 2015-2016 Junior Fellow from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas. (April 2015)

  • Cody Cole and Zack Shaffer join the lab as undergraduate research assistants. (April 2015)

  • Incoming Integrative Biology graduate student, Serena Zhao has been awarded a 2015 NSF-GRFP. She will join the lab this summer. (April 2015)

  • Congratulations to Blair Mockler on being awarded a Spring 2015 Undergraduate Research Fellowships (URF) from the University of Texas. (February 2015)

  • Jo-anne Holley joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow from the lab of Andy Suarez at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (January 2015)

  • Anne Bolz joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. (November 2014)

  • Kasie Raymann joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow from Simonetta Gribaldo's lab at the Institut Pasteur, France. (October 2014)

  • Congratulations to Allison Joyce and Amanda Mancenido on being awarded Fall 2014 Undergraduate Research Fellowships (URF) from the University of Texas. (October 2014)

  • Becky Chong joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow from the lab of Rachel Mueller at Colorado State University. (September 2014)

  • Luke Hollifield and Blair Mockler join the lab as undergraduate research assistants. (September 2014)

  • Erick da Silva Motta (graduate student) joins the lab in the Plant Biology Graduate Program. (August 2014)

  • Nalin Ratnayeke joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. (August 2014)

  • Kelley Lu, Josh Lara, and Luis Medina join the lab as research assistants. (June 2014)

  • Margaret Steele joins the lab as a graduate student and will be co-advised by Marvin Whitely. (April 2014)

  • Daren Eiri (graduate student) is the February TA of the month from UT's Senate College Councils. (February 2014)

  • Daren Eiri (graduate student) received the Student Paper Award at the 2014 American Bee Research Conference in San Antonio, TX. (January 2014)

  • Philipp Engel (postdoctoral fellow) has accepted a position as Group Leader and SNSF Ambizione Fellow at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. (January 2014)

  • Anna Perkins joins the lab as an undergratuate research assistant. (January 2014)

  • Nancy Moran will be awarded the 2014 Jim Tiedje Award at ISME 15 in Seoul, South Korea in August 2014. The Jim Tiedje Award is presented biennially in recognition for outstanding lifetime contribution to microbial ecology from the International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. (November 2013)

  • Allison Joyce joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. (October 2013)

  • Yueli Yun (visiting researcher) joins the lab from Hubei University in China. (September 2013)

  • Gordon Bennett (postdoctoral fellow) is awarded a 2-year USDA/NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the function and regulation of obligate symbioses during environmental adaptation of pestiferous species. (September 2013)

  • Edwin Escobar and Amanda Mancenido join the lab as undergraduate research assistants. (September 2013)

  • Hauke Koch (postdoctoral fellow) has been awarded an Advanced Postdoc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation for his work on bumble bees. (August 2013)

  • Daren Eiri (graduate student) joins the lab from the University of California, San Diego where he was a Master's student advised by James Nieh. (August 2013)

  • Dan Sloan (postdoctoral fellow) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Colorado State University in the Department of Biology, to start in August 2013. (May 2013)

  • Ingrid Rochon, a graduating Yale senior, successfully completed her senior thesis on the carotenoid biosynthetic genes in whitefly symbionts, working with Dan Sloan. (May 2013)

  • Allison Hansen (postdoctoral fellow) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the School of Integrated Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She starts the new position in August 2013. (December 2012)

  • Vince Martinson (postdoctoral associate) has accepted a postdoctoral position in the lab of John Jaenike in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Rochester. He starts the new position in January. (December 2012)

  • Lisa Fazzino, a recent graduate of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, joins the lab as a volunteer researcher. (October 2012)

  • Gordon Bennett joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate from the lab of Patrick O'Grady in the department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at the University of California Berkeley. (September 2012)

  • Lara Zipperer (Yale undergrad) joins the lab as a student researcher. (August 2012)

  • Hauke Koch joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Paul Schmid-Hempel in the Department of Experimental Ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. (July 2012)

  • Graduate student Kevin Vogel's Ph.D has been conferred by the University of Arizona in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He will be a postdoc in the Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia. (May 2012)

  • Graduate student Vince Martinson's Ph.D has been conferred by the University of Arizona in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He will be a postdoc at Yale University. (May 2012)

  • Waldan Kwong was awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) graduate fellowship for 3 years. (April 2012)

  • Zakee Sabree (postdoctoral associate) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. He leaves for Columbus this summer. Congratulations! (February 2012)
  • Ingrid Rochon (Yale undergrad) joins the lab as a student researcher. (January 2012)

  • Kelsey Bartlett (U. of New Haven), Kate Filush (U. of New Haven), Daniel Phillps (U. of New Haven), and Daniella Portelada (U. of New Haven) join the lab as student researchers. (January 2012)

  • Philipp Engel has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization)  for his work on the genetics and functions of bee-associated bacteria. (December 2011)

  • Undergraduate researcher Charlie Huang has been awarded a Yale Science & Engineering Association Grant. (October 2011)

  • Ryuichi Koga, a researcher from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, has joined the lab in July to work on symbionts in aphids and bees for the next year. (August 2011)

  • Jill Dolowich, a high school student from Long Island, was a researcher in the lab from June to August, and has just finished her work on the routes of transmission of bacterial microbiota between worker bees. (August 2011)

  • Dan Sloan, who joins the lab on Aug 1, 2011, has been awarded a 3 year NIH Ruth Kirschstein postdoctoral fellowship to work on small genomes in insect symbionts. Dan recently finished his PhD at University of Virginia with Doug Taylor. (May 2011)

  • Allison Hansen is awarded a 2-year USDA/NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the interaction between Buchnera and aphids. (May 2011)

  • Katherine Urban-Mead (Yale undergrad) joins the lab as a student researcher. (April 2011)

  • Philipp Engel (postdoc) joins the lab from Switzerland. (March 2011)

  • Nibal Fadhil (U. of New Haven), Adam Hejmowski (U. of New Haven), and Cindy Barlan (Quinnipiac U.) join the lab as student researchers. (March 2011)

  • Nancy Moran is awarded the International Prize for Biology from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. (December 6, 2010)