Lab Updates
2026-04-29
Elias Kemna is chosen by the Department of Bacteriology Scholarship Committee as the 2026 recipient of the Bacteriology Master’s Student Achievement Scholarship Award!
Congratulations Eli!
2026-04-28
Dr. Betül Kaçar is awarded the 2026 Pound Research Award from UW-Madison College of Agricultural & Life Sciences.
Congratulations Betül!
2026-04-19
Holly Rucker is awarded the Louis and Elsa Thomsen Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship from the UW-Madison College of Agricultural & Life Sciences (CALS).
Congratulations Holly!
2026-02-25
Graduate students Holly Rucker, Allie Beyer, Kaleb Fisher, and Aya Klos awarded the NASA LIFE Center travel award to present their research at AbsciCon’26.
Congratulations all!
2025-11-03
Kaleb Fisher is joining us as a PhD student from the Biophysics program.
Welcome to the lab, Kaleb!
2025-10-15
Huge congratulations on a successful PhD defense, Dr. Evrim Fer! We’re so proud, inspired, and can’t wait to see what amazing things you’ll do next.
Enjoy the “Dr.” title!
2025-09-30
Allie Beyer is joining us as a PhD student from the Biophysics program.
Welcome to the lab, Allie!
2025-09-01
Dr. Rajdeeep Banerjee is joining our lab as a scientist!
Welcome, Rajdeep, we are excited to have you!
2025-06-28
Kaustubh Amritkar is selected for the Best Poster Award at the Protein Society Annual Symposium 2025 (PS39) in San Francisco, CA.
Congratulations Kaustubh!
2025-06-04
Aya Klos is continuing her journey in the Kaçar Lab, now as a PhD student!
Welcome (back) Aya!
Credits: Holly Rucker
2025-05-21
Holly Rucker is awarded the Best Lightning Talk Award at the third Geobiology Society Conference at Banff, AB.
Congratulations Holly!
2025-05-01
Holly Rucker is awarded the Michael & Winona Foster Predoctoral Fellowship by the Bacteriology Department.
Congratulations Holly!
2025-04-28
Graduate students Evrim Fer & Kaustubh Amritkar get the Protein Society Travel award for presenting at The Protein Society Annual Symposium 2025 (PS39).
Congratulations Evrim & Kaustubh!
2025-04-14
Dr. Katsumi Hagino joins the Kaçar lab as a postdoctoral fellow, after finishing his PhD from the University of Tokyo.
Welcome Katsumi!
2025-03-12
Scott Chang accepted PhD offer from University of Washington Geosciences.
Congratulations Scott!
2024-11-13
Last day in the lab for Dr. Morgan Sobol, before starting her own lab at Texas Tech University.
Good luck Morgan!
Lab Life
We dressed up as Ghibli studio characters for the Bactoberfest’24!
We dressed up as the Wizard of Oz characters for Bactoberfest’23!
We dressed up as Pikmins for Bactoberfest’22!
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