Alumni

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.

Dissertation: Mechanistic insights into resolution and repair of DNA damage caused by head-on replication-transcription conflicts in bacteria.
Faculty Advisor: Jade Wang
Ponlkrit is now a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand.