Dissertation: Aquatic Bacteria, Lakes and Water Column Overturn: A model microbial system for disturbance ecology. Faculty Advisor: Katherine McMahon Ashley is a Director of Research with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France and the Editor-in-Chief of the American Society Journal mSystems.
Dissertation: Connecting central carbon metabolism, nucleotide metabolism and drug resistance - A story of pyruvate kinase Faculty Advisor: Jade Wang Fukang is starting a post doc position in the Wang lab at UW-Madison.
Dissertation: Dissecting the Respiratory Machinery in the Xylose-Metabolizing Yeast, Pichia stipitis. Faculty Advisor: Thomas Jeffries Nian is a cardiac researcher at Tufts University.
Dissertation: Genomics of Bacterial Pathogens Across Evolutionary Scales. Faculty Advisor: Caitlin Pepperell Abigail has received an APHL-CDC Bioinformatics Postdoc Fellowship at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene's Communicable Disease Division.
Dissertation: Mopeia Virus Assembly. Faculty Advisor: Yoshihiro Kawaoka Olena is an Assistant Professor at Texas Biomedical Research Institute.
Dissertation: The role of c-di-AMP in Listeria monocytogenes pathogenesis Faculty Advisor: Tu Anh Huynh Cheta is a Senior Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Dissertation: Lysosomal and endocytic protein trafficing routes and machinery in Trypanosoma brucei. Faculty Advisor: Jay Bangs Jason is an Analytics Lead, Genotyping Labs at the Monsanto Company.
Dissertation: Using oral swabs in dairy cows to correlate the rumen microbiome with production metrics and improve genetic selection Faculty Advisor: Garret Suen Joe is a postdoc at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is using culturing and bioinformatic methods to test the impact of algae extracts on the production of methane in dairy cows.
Dissertation:Biosynthetic studies of antibiotics platensimycin and platencin. Faculty Advisor: Ben Shen Mike is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota.
Dissertation: Investigating the Role of Antibody-Dependent Cellular Phagocytosis (ADCP) in Protection Against HIV-1 Faculty Advisor: David Evans Brian is a postdoc at UW-Madison.