People Type: Alumni

Sommer, Andrew

Dissertation: Flies as carriers of clinically relevant bacteria in agricultural reservoirs Faculty Advisor: Kerri Coon Andrew is a postdoc at the University of Minnesota in the Khoruts lab working on bioinformatic analyses of fecal microbiota transplantation studies.

Soto, Brenda

Dissertation: Anti-tumor effect of Resveratrol combined with immunotherapy. Faculty Advisor: Paul Sondel Brenda is the Director of Quality Management at Calimetrix.

Spero, Melanie

Dissertation: The Physiological Role of Complex I in Bacteria. Faculty Advisor: Tim Donohue Melanie is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon.

Stanton, Eliot

Dissertation: The impact of mobile genetic elements on the diversification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Faculty Advisor: Chuck Kaspar Eliot is a bioinformatician at UW-Madison Biotechnology Center.

Starai, Vincent

Dissertation: The Sir2-dependent Protein Acetylation/Deacetylation System of Salmonella enterica. Faculty Advisor: Jorge Esclante Vincent is now an Associate Professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Infectious Disease at the University of Georgia.

Starnes, Taylor

Dissertation: Cell motility in inflammatory disease pathogenesis. Faculty Advisor: Anna Huttenlocher Taylor is a MD in ophthalmology in the Chicago area.

Steinberger, Andrew

Dissertation: Interplay of microbial diversity, antimicrobial use, and antimicrobial resistance on Wisconsin dairy farms Faculty Advisor: Garret Suen Andrew is a postdoc in the Peters lab at UW-Madison.

Sterkel, Alana

Dissertation: Subversion of Innate Immunity by Blastomyces dermatitidis. Faculty Advisor: Bruce Klein Alana is the Associate Director of the Communicable Disease Division at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and an Assistant Professor at UW Madison.

Stevens, Sarah

Dissertation: Genomics as a Lens into the Population Structure and Evolution of Freshwater Microbes. Faculty Advisor: Katherine McMahon Sarah is the Director of the Data Science Hub at UW-Madison.

Studer, Sarah

Dissertation: Vibrio Fischeri uses AinS to regulate cellular activites and host association. Faculty Advisor: Ned Ruby Sarah is a Scientific Communications Specialist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.