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Dissertation: Innate Immune Defenses Against Aspergillus in Zebrafish Larvae. Faculty Advisors: Nancy Keller and Anna Huttenlocher Ben is the Associate Director of Fungal Technology at Terra Bioforge.

Dissertation: Defining Robustness in the Metabolic Network Surrounding Phosphoribosylamine Biosynthesis in Salmonella enterica. Faculty Advisor: Diana Downs Mark is the Director of Research at Verb Biotics.

Dissertation: RNA recognition by the PUF protein. Faculty Advisor: Marvin Wickens Yvonne is the VP of investments at ClavystBio in Singapore.

Dissertation: Components of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae Type IV Secretion System and their Interactions with Peptidoglycan. Faculty Advisor: Joe Dillard Petra is a Senior Research Specialist at Solventum in Corporate R&D.

Dissertation: Microbial Pattern Recognition in the Euprymna scolopes- Vibrio fischeri Symbiosis. Faculty Advisor: Margaret McFall-Nagi Ben is a Clinical Associate the University of Chicago.

Dissertation: Study of Positive and Negative Factors Controlling Replication Initiation of Prokaryotic Origin. Faculty Advisor: Marcin Filutowicz Ricardo is currently a Professor in the Department of Genomic Sciences and Biotechnology at the Catholic University of Brasil, Brasilia.

Dissertation: The Contribution of UL97 Viral Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Activity of HCMV Infection. Faculty Advisor: Rob Kalejta Chad is a Biosafety officer at Penn State University.

Dissertation: The RidA paradigm: An endogenously generated stress and its control. Faculty Advisor: Diana Downs Jennifer is a content marketing manager at Canopy Biosciences.

Dissertation: Execution of Baculovirus-induced Apoptosis in Drosophila Requires Caspases DrICE, CDP1, and Dronc. Faculty Advisor: Paul Friesen Erica is a Professor at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, IL.

Dissertation: Elucidating the diversity, distribution and function of the gut bacterial symbiont Ruminococcus. Faculty Advisor: Garret Suen Alex is a bioinformatician at Infinity Bio, Inc.