Crohn’s & Colitis Congress™

Michael Sadowsky
Director, BioTechnology Institute, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor
University of Minnesota


Dr. Sadowsky studied at the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received his B.S. degree in 1977. After obtaining a M.S. degree (1979) in Microbiology/Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh he went on to complete his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Hawaii in 1983, focusing on microbial ecology and molecular biology. Between 1983 and 1985, Dr. Sadowsky did postdoctoral research at the McGill University in the plant-microbe interactions group of the Plant Molecular Biology laboratory. He worked shortly for the Allied Corporation as a Molecular Biologist and then worked for several years as a Microbiologist for the USDA-ARS in Beltsville Maryland, in the Nitrogen Fixation and Soybean Genetics Laboratory. He joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1989, where he is currently a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in two departments and a member of 10 graduate faculties. Since 2009 he has served as Director the BioTechnology Institute, a collaboration between the College of Biological Sciences and the College of Science and Engineering. Dr. Sadowsky was an editor of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology (where he has served on the editorial board since 1986) and is also an editorial board member of the journals Symbiosis and Microbe and Environments. He previously served as an editor for Molecular-Plant Microbe Interactions and is founding Editor-In-Chief of one of ASMs newest journals, Microbiology Spectrum. Dr. Sadowsky has authored or coauthored more than 300 articles in scientific journals, was elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 1999 and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008. Research efforts in his laboratory are directed towards understanding the microbial ecology of host-microbe interactions done using new fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) technology, which his lab helped to develop and standardize.

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