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Ph.D., Human Biology, Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany 2010

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Postdoc, Bacterial Pathogenesis, UC Davis, Davis CA 2013

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M.Sc., Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany 2006

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases, 2018

American Cancer Society Research Scholar, 2017

ICAAC Young Investigator Award, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 2014

Becton Dickinson Research Award, German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM), 2011

Hughes ER, Winter MG, Alves da Silva L, Muramatsu MK, Jimenez AG, Gillis CC, Spiga L, Chanin RB, Santos RL, Zhu W, Winter SE. Reshaping of bacterial molecular hydrogen metabolism contributes to the outgrowth of commensal E. coli during gut inflammation. Elife. 2021 Jun 4;10:e58609. doi:10.7554/eLife.58609. PMID:34085924.

Chanin RB, Winter MG, Spiga L, Hughes ER, Zhu W, Taylor SJ, Arenales A, Gillis CC, Büttner L, Jimenez AG, Smoot MP, Santos RL, Winter SE. Epithelial-Derived Reactive Oxygen Species Enable AppBCX-Mediated Aerobic Respiration of Escherichia coli during Intestinal Inflammation. Cell Host Microbe. 2020 Dec 9;28(6):780-788.e5. doi:10.1016/j.chom.2020.09.005. Epub 2020 Oct 13. PMID:33053375.

Zhu W, Winter MG, Spiga L, Hughes ER, Chanin R, Mulgaonkar A, Pennington J, Maas M, Behrendt CL, Kim J, Sun X, Beiting DP, Hooper LV, Winter SE. Xenosiderophore Utilization Promotes Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Resilience during Colitis. Cell Host Microbe. 2020 Mar 11;27(3):376-388.e8. doi:10.1016/j.chom.2020.01.010. Epub 2020 Feb 18. PMID:32075741.

Zhu W, Miyata N, Winter MG, Arenales A, Hughes ER, Spiga L, Kim J, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Starokadomskyy P, Gopal P, Byndloss MX, Santos RL, Burstein E, Winter SE. Editing of the gut microbiota reduces carcinogenesis in mouse models of colitis-associated colorectal cancer. J Exp Med. 2019 Oct 7;216(10):2378-2393. doi:10.1084/jem.20181939. Epub 2019 Jul 29. PMID:31358565.

Zhu W, Winter MG, Byndloss MX, Spiga L, Duerkop BA, Hughes ER, Büttner L, de Lima Romão E, Behrendt CL, Lopez CA, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Huff-Hardy K, Wilson RP, Gillis CC, Tükel Ç, Koh AY, Burstein E, Hooper LV, Bäumler AJ, Winter SE. Precision editing of the gut microbiota ameliorates colitis. Nature. 2018 Jan 11;553(7687):208-211. doi:10.1038/nature25172. Epub 2018 Jan 3. PMID:29323293.