Joe Dillard

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Bacteriologist. We study Nesseria, Gardnerella, and all things related to peptidoglycan. Professor at UW-Madison.

Fallopian tube tissue infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae is shown. Dead ciliated cells are seen where they have been extruded from the tissue
A small dish containing black-eyed peas, collard greens, a wedge of cornbread, and a Serrano pepper.
78 morel mushrooms, mostly of the yellow variety, dry on a metal dish rack.
A scanning electron micrograph showing rod-shaped Gardnerella vaginalis bacteria colored purple interacting with coccal Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria colored pink, all surrounded by biofilm goo colored yellow. The experiment in the picture was done by Amy Klimowicz, and the false-coloring by Melanie Callaghan.
Left. A somewhat damp man in a UW badgers hat stands in front of a stream in a forest of bare trees. Right. Painstakingly cleaned scarlet elf cup mushrooms cook in a skillet with butter.
Collard greens, black-eyed peas, a serrano pepper, and a wedge of cornbread on a plate shaped like a fish. This is a traditional southern US meal for New Year's Day, alleged to bring good luck and prosperity.
A man in a red UW badgers hat peers into the camera as his black and gray blue heeler dog stares distractedly at a far away object. The background is a rural Wisconsin road in the fall.
Colonies of the bacteria Gardnerella, strain 3336, grow on an agar plate and appear as large or small colonies (left panel). The number of Gardnerella surviving in an infection of huaman cervix tissue in the lab is depicted in a bar graph, and the number of small colony variants that survive is greater than those of the large colony variants (right panel).
Ciliated Fallopian tube cells slough from the epithelium in response to purified tripeptide peptidoglycan monomer (GlcNAc-anhydro-MurNAc-Ala-iGlu-Dap).
Picture of traditional southern new year's day meal of mustard greens, cornbread, and peas.
Electron micrographs of thin sections of gonococcal cells show that mltG mutant cells are larger than wild type or complement cells.