Dissertation: Computational Microbiology Across the Bench, Clinic, and Classroom: Improved Metagenomic Binning, Wound Microbiome Characterization, and Pedagogical Practice Faculty Advisor: Jason Kwan Shane is seeking his next opportunity.
Dissertation: A gnotobiotic approach to dissect the inpact of microbial choline utilization on host biology. Faculty Advisor: Federico Rey Kym is a Scientific Director at HCG.
Dissertation: Getting to the core: single cell analysis of the nucleocytoplasmic trafficking dynamics of hepatitis B virus Faculty Advisor: Nate Sherer Sofia is a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health in Dr. Daniel Chertow’s lab focused on studying the molecular pathogenesis of illness due to emerging respiratory viral pathogens that include influenza A and SARS-CoV-2.
Dissertation: Insights into the Mechanism of DksA Action at Ribosomal RNA Promoters in Escherichia coli. Faculty Advisor: Rick Gourse Steven is a Senior Scientist at Genentech.
Dissertation: Promoter inversion and anti-termination control mechanisms regulating capsular polysaccharide biosynthesis in the human gut symbiote Bacteroides fragilis Faculty Advisor: Bob Landick Jason is a Senior Scientist at Abbvie in Madison, WI.
Dissertation: Heterologous Expression in the Metagenomics Era. Faculty Advisor: Jo Handelsman Zakee is an Associate Professor at the Ohio State University.
Dissertation: T Cell Epitope Ontogeny in AIDS-virus Infected Cells. Faculty Advisor: David Watkins Jonah is Professor and Chief of the Division of Pathobiology and Immunology at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR.
Dissertation: Understanding recent and ancestral trends in the evolution of microbial biosynthetic gene clusters Faculty Advisor: Lindsay Kalan Rauf is a postdoc in the Relman lab at Stanford University.
Dissertation: Elucidating the contributions of promoter sequence and (p)ppGpp binding sites on RNAP to transcription regulation in Escherichia coli Faculty Advisor: Rick Gourse Rachel will be working as a post-doc with David Hershey at UW-Madison.
Dissertation: Neisseria gonorrhoeae Processing of Chromosomal DNA for Direct Secretion via a Type IV Secretion System. Faculty Advisor: Joe Dillard Wilmara is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Pathobiological Sciences.