People Type: Alumni

Fer, Evrim

Dissertation: Tracing the Origins and Evolutionary History of Translation GTPases Faculty Advisor: Betül Kaçar Evrim is working as a postdoc in the Hlouchova lab at Charles University in Prague.

Finn, James

Dissertation: Regulation of a Type VII secretion operon in Bacillus subtilis: The yfj operon Faculty Advisor: Briana Burton James is starting law school at University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Florek, Kelsey

Dissertation: Increasing the breadth of influenza immunity through informed vaccine design. Faculty Advisor: Thomas Friedrich Kelsey is a Bioinformatician at Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.

Flores Cruz, Zomary

Dissertation: Role of oxidative stress response in Ralstonia solanacearum virulence. Faculty Advisor: Caitilyn Allen Zomary is an Assistant Professor at Dominican University.

Flynn, Jeffrey

Dissertation: Towards an in vivo role for the RidA family of proteins. Faculty Advisor: Diana Downs Jeff is a Senior Product Development Engineer at 3M.

Fox, Lisa M.

Dissertation: Mechanisms that regulate NKT cell autoreactivity. Faculty Advisor:Jenny Gumperz Lisa is a communications coordinator with Sun Prairie Nursery School.

Francoeur, Charlotte

Dissertation: The ecology of secondary microbial symbionts: Exploring the diversity and function of bacterial and viral associations with fungus-growing ants Faculty Advisor: Cameron Currie Charlotte now works as an Advancement Senior Specialist at Society for Science, in Washington DC.

Frankel, Matthew

Dissertation: Characterization of a Unique Nuclear Transport Pathway Required for Virulence of the Parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Faculty Advisor: Laura Knoll Matt is the Director of Assay Research at Abbott Diagnostics.

Freeman, Bailey

Dissertation: Modulation of Macrophage Cytokine Responses and Antigen Presentation during African Trypanosomiasis. Faculty Advisor: Donna Paulnock Bailey is currently doing a postdoc with Prof. Mark Slifka at Oregon State University of Health Sciences.

Garcia, Daniel

Dissertation: Liberation of Pro-inflammatory Peptidoglycan Fragments from the Gonococcal Cell. Faculty Advisor: Joe Dillard is a Senior Health Scientist for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is currently serving as the Associate Director for Laboratory Science at CDC-Ethiopia, strengthening laboratory systems and laboratory services capacity for infectious diseases.