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.

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 will be taking a governmental postdoc with the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center.

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.

Baker-McAlister, Anna

Dissertation: Elucidation of a red light sensing two component system from non-photosynthetic bacteria..
Faculty Advisor: Katrina Forest
Anna is a Senior Scientist at Aldevron.

Baker, Emily Clare

Dissertation: Evolutionary genetics and dissection of brewing related traits in Saccharomyces eubyanus and its hybrids with Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Faculty Advisor: Chris Hittinger
EmilyClare is a Lab Aide at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center in Snohomish, WA.

Banta, Amy

Dissertation: Molecular Interactions between the transcription factor CRL and Sigma S RNA Polymerase Holoenzyme in Escherichia coli.
Faculty Advisor: Rick Gourse
Amy is a Research Scientist in the Peters Lab at UW Madison in Pharmaceutical Sciences.