People Type: Alumni

Anfora, Andrew

Dissertation: The Effects of Serine and Acetate Metabolism on the Ability of Escherichia coli CFT073 to Colonize the Murine Urinary Tract. Faculty Advisor: Rod Welch Andrew is now an Associate Director of Product Management at LGC Clinical Diagnostics.

Anthony, Jennifer

Dissertation: Function of the Rhodobacter sphaerodies alternative sigma factor, sE and its anti-sigma factor, ChrR. Faculty Advisor: Tim Donohue Jennifer is now a Research Scientist developing next generation biofuels in the Biochemical Sciences and Engineering Group at DuPont.

Anthony, Larry

Dissertation: Interaction of Escherichia coli sigma factors with core RNA polymerase. Faculty Advisor: Richard Burgess Larry works at Butamax Advanced Biofuels in Biotechnology Commercialization and IP Management.

Apodaca, Jennifer

Dissertation: Evolution of the transcriptional response to oxygen limitation. Faculty Advisor: Nicole Perna Jennifer is a lecturer and post doctoral research assistant at the University of Texas, El Paso.

Arellano, Aldo

Dissertation: Host-microbe feedbacks in a tripartite symbiosis Faculty Advisor: Kerri Coon Aldo is a postdoc in molecular ecology at University of Michigan.

Aulik, Nicole

Dissertation: Mannheimia Haemolytica and its leukotoxin cause extracellular trap formation by bovine neutoophils and macrophages. Faculty Advisor: Charles Czuprynski Nicole is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Wisconsin Veterinary School in Madison, WI.

Aylward, Frank

Dissertation: Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of the symbiotic microbial communites of fungus growing insects. Faculty Advisor: Cameron Currie Frank is now an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech University.

Bacon, Emily

Dissertation: Gene regulation and signal transduction in γ-proteobacteria Faculty Advisor: Jason Peters Emily is a research scientist at Aldevron.

Bacot-Davis, Valjean

Dissertation: Structure and dynamics of the Encephalomyocarditis virus Leader protein in deregulation of host nucleocytoplasmic transport. Faculty Advisor: Ann Palmenberg Valjean is now a Resident Physician at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Baisa, Gary

Dissertation: The Regulation of the dsdCXA Locus and the Characterization of D-cycloserine Resistant Mutants in Escherichia coli. Faculty Advisor: Rod Welch Gary is a Senior Scientist at Intuitive Biosciences.