People Type: Alumni

Hutchison, Evan

Dissertation: Investigating the role of gut microbiome interpersonal variation and short-chain fatty acids in cardiometabolic disease Faculty Advisor: Federico Rey Evan is the Chief Technology Officer at Navitro Biosciences.

Isenberg, Ruth

Dissertation: Cyclic diguanylate inhibits beneficial hostcolonization by Vibrio fischeri Faculty Advisor: Mark Mandel Ruth is an Assistant Professor in the Biology department at Macalester College.

Jacobson, Tyler

Dissertation: In vivo thermodynamic analysis of metabolic networks. Faculty Advisor: Daniel Amador-Noguez Tyler is an Associate Group Leader at PPD.

Jewell, Kelsea

Dissertation: Characterization of the ruminal bacterial microbiome in relation to host parameters. Faculty Advisor: Garret Suen Kelsea is an Associate Professor at Centralia College in Washington.

Jones, Jeremy

Dissertation: Novel Methods for Prevention and Control of Influenza. Faculty Advisor: Stacey Schultz-Cherry Jeremy is a Staff Scientist at St. Jude Children's Hospital.

Jose, Gilbert

Dissertation: Evaluation of Two Novel Antiviral Peptides in a Murine Model of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Keratitis. Faculty Advisor: Curtis Brandt Gil is an Associate Director of Global Procurement at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Boston, MA.

Khana, Daven

Dissertation: Towards a quantitative understanding of metabolism in industrially relevant microbes Faculty Advisor: Daniel Amador-Noguez Daven is a Senior Research Scientist at Metabolon.

Kieft, Kristopher

Dissertation: Metagenomics-enabled viral ecology to advance our understanding of human and environmental microbiomes Faculty Advisor: Karthik Anantharaman Kris has taken a position as a scientist at Moderna Genomics.

Kissi-Twum, Abena

Dissertation: Why is the DNA virus Hepatitis B not a RNA virus? – Understanding virion morphogenesis in HBV Faculty Advisor: Dan Loeb Abena is a postdoc in the Sugden lab at UW-Madison.

Klingele, Audrey

Dissertation:Directed evolution of Escherichia coli reveals multiple contributions to ionizing radiation survival. Faculty Advisor: Michael Cox Audrey is a design engineer at Luminex.