People Type: Alumni

Mendoza-Cavazos, Carolina

Dissertation: Diarrheal Diseases Caused by Eukaryotic Microbes: From Murine Models to their Transcriptomes Faculty Advisor: Laura Knoll Carolina will be a scientist at Promega Corporation.

Mera, Paola

Dissertation: Mechanistic Insights into Corrinoid Adenosylation. Faculty Advisor: Jorge Escalante Paola is a postdoc at Stanford.

Mercado Soto, Nayanna

Dissertation: Innate immune regulation during wound healing and infection in zebrafish Faculty Advisors: Anna Huttenlocher and Nancy Keller Nayanna is faculty at Springfield Technical College in Springfield, MA.

Milligan-McClellan, Kat

Dissertation: Characterization of Potential Toxoplasma gondii Virulence factors. Faculty Advisor: Laura Knoll Kat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut.

Mladinich, Katie

Dissertation: Point Mutations Linked to Inflammatory Disease Pathogensis Elucidate Regulatory Signaling Cascades in Neutrophils. Faculty Advisor: Anna Huttenlocher Katie attended Law School at Stanford University. She is now with the firm Latham & Watkins, LLP.

Moncla, Louise

Dissertation: The role of transmission bottlenecks in influenza virus host switching. Faculty Advisor: Thomas Friedrich Louise is an Assistant Professor of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

Mooney, Rachel

Dissertation: The Secret Life of NusG: A Functional Analysis of a Universal Transcriptional Regulator and Its Surprising Relationship with _70. Faculty Advisor: Robert Landick Rachel is a Scientist in the laboratory of Prof. Landick, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Moriarty, Ryan

Dissertation: Using molecularly barcoded pathogens and whole-genome sequence data to understand host responses to SIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection Faculty Advisor: Shelby O'Connor Ryan will be doing a postdoc with the Hope lab at Northwestern University.

Mortimer, Tatum

Dissertation: Identifying targets of selection in bacteria with varying levels of recombination. Faculty Advisor: Caitlin Pepperell Tatum is a Assistant Professor at University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine.

Moser, Lindsey

Dissertation: Insights into Astrovirus Pathogenesis: How Barrier Permeability, ERK Activation, and Early Viral Events Collaborate to Cause Diarrhea. Faculty Advisor: Stacey Schultz-Cherry Lindsey is a Senior Scientist at Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals.