International Microorganism Day An #InternationalMicroorganismDay reminder to join us on Sep 21, 5:30 PM Central as we discuss #guthealth, the human #microbiota, and #microbiome #science! Tanner Richie will join Carolina Tropini, PhD and Dr. Santiago-Rodriguez in a post-film panel discussion!

Check out Tanner Richie as she answers questions about the amazing powers of microbes living in the gut!

PhD candidate Tanner Richie presented a poster last week over amino acid availability in an IBD mouse model at the Johnson Cancer Research Center Data Blitz. Keep a look out for her newly accepted paper on this! 👀K-State Biology K-State Cancer Research

Excited that my thesis first chapter Lee Lab is live in ASM #mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… We use a bunch of techniques to show that gut microbial populations may be “stealing” valuable amino acids from the mice host, resulting in persistent gut inflammation

Congratulations to our head undergrad Leslie for graduating this weekend! The lab couldn’t be more proud of you! Good luck in your future endeavors and we will miss seeing your smiling face around the lab.

We Lee Lab are officially done for 2023! Instruments are cleaned, cells are in their happy place - We will rest, recharge with family and friends, and be ready for 2024. I am grateful for all members of Lee Lab for standing by me through all the ups and downs in 2023.

Congratulations to our colleague Sonny Lee Sonny TM Lee on his promotion to associate professor with tenure! K-State Arts and Sciences K-State Research k-state.edu/today/announce…

The plant side of the Lee Lab has been working hard in the lab. We can’t wait to see your upcoming results! 💪

Congratulations to Anna on winning the Graduate Student Teaching Award! The Lee Lab is very proud of you and your accomplishments!!! Anna Kazarina K-State Biology

Congratulations to Anna Kazarina Anna Kazarina (on the right) for winning Michael Scot Watkins Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching! K-State BGSA Sonny TM Lee K-State Arts and Sciences K-State Research

We are so proud of Tanner Richie for pushing through and seeing her 2nd chapter to completion 💪!! Please go and check out her amazing work on Eubacterium rectale relieving gut epithelium ROS damage!

PhD candidate Anna Kazarina presented her talk at the One Health Microbiome Symposium at Penn State! Look out for her upcoming publication on the effects of microbial metabolites on plant-host growth! K-State Arts and Sciences K-State Biology Kansas State University Graduate School

#ISME19 come see my poster PS3.17.046 today (08/22)! Let’s talk about the new approach in building plant-oriented SymComs! Lee Lab Sonny TM Lee

The Lee Lab is very proud of Anna Kazarina for presenting her work at #ISME19 in South Africa! In this project, Anna takes one step closer to building a plant-oriented Synthetic Community. Be on the lookout for a preprint of this work next week!👀

Lee Lab graduate student Tanner Richie had a fantastic time at her first GRS and GRC conference where she presented her latest research on limiting microbial driven inflammation!

Lee Lab graduate student Tanner presented a poster at the Johnson Cancer Research Center Data Blitz last week. Tanner’s poster displayed her current research on limiting Klebsiella pneumoniae adherence to colon cells and how that reduces host inflammation and lowers cancer risk.

Undergrad student Summer has been working on her own project. Her project focuses on pure culturing fungi from soil samples that originate from dry and wet soil environments. Her goal is to be able to get an idea of which fungi are more abundant in one environment over the other.

Tanner passed her defense yesterday and is now officially Dr. Richie!! The Lee Lab is so very proud of you and all of your accomplishments. Tanner is a great mentor and friend to the lab and will be missed. The Lee Lab wishes you the best of luck on your next adventure!❤️👩‍🔬