Dissertation: Functional and Evolutionary Insights into Botulinum Neurotoxins and Homologous Toxins
Faculty Advisors: Sabine Pellett and JD Sauer
Travis is now a postdoc at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Patrick McNutt’s lab.
Dissertation: Characterization of botulinum neurotoxin serotype A subtypes 1 through 5 using in vitro and in vivo approaches.
Faculty Advisor: Eric Johnson
Regina is a Project Manager at Epic Systems Corp.
Dissertation: Cytosine modification of the Epstein-Barr Virus genome affects lytic reactivation and helps inforce latency type.
Faculty Advisor: Shannon Kinney
Coral is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Dissertation: Mapping the path of DNA in transcription initiation intermediates.
Faculty Advisor: Rick Gourse
Jared is a co-founder of Trestle and Boone Prairie Farm and visiting scientist at University of Chicago.
Dissertation: Characterization of factors regulating PII function in Phodospirillum Rubrum.
Faculty Advisor: Gary Roberts
He is a Program Manager in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Dissertation: Ecological associations and evolutionary biology of the marine luminous bacterium, Vibrio fischeri.
Faculty Advisor: Ned Ruby
Michael is an Associate Professor at Kalamazoo College.
Dissertation: Coenzyme B12 Biosynthesis and Precursor Salvaging in Archaea.
Faculty Advisor: Jorge Escalante
Jesse is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona.
Dissertation: Population and community ecology of bacteria from the genus Streptomyces.
Faculty Advisor: Kalin Vetsigian
Erik is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dissertation: New insights into the expanded family of (pp)pGpp alarmones
Faculty Advisor: Jade Wang
Jin is currently working as a post doc in the Wang lab at UW Madison.
Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Chromatin Organization of Latent Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Poises the Virus for Reactivation
Faculty Advisor: Donna Neumann
Ziyun will be working at Pharmaron as a bioanalyst.