Alumni

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.

Dissertation: Sex in theory and practice: Genetics and reproduction in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis
Faculty Advisors: Cameron Currie and Anne Pringle
Soleil will be working as a postdoc in Christina Hull’s lab at UW-Madison.

Dissertation: Identifying signatures of bacterial adaptation to the pathogenic niche using evolutionary genomics
Faculty Advisor: Caitlin Pepperell
Madison is a bioinformatics scientist at IFF.

Dissertation: Studies of the Last Step of de Novo Corrin Ring Biosynthesis and the Nucleotide Loop Assembly Pathway of Coenzyme B12 Synthesis.
Faculty Advisor: Jorge Escalante
Carmen is a pharmacist.

Dissertation: Investigating Microbial Interactions Impacting Pathogen Colonization in Human Upper Respiratory Microbiomes
Faculty Advisors: Cameron Currie and Federico Rey
Susan will be returning to medical school to finish her MD/PhD program.

Dissertation: Production, dynamics, and DNA binding capabilities of Bacillus subtilis natural competence associated pili
Faculty Advisor: Briana Burton
Jason is a scientist at Promega in Madison, WI.

Dissertation: Molecular and functional analysis of in vivo 6-thioguanine-resistant T cells from melanoma patients.
Faculty Advisor: Mark Albertini
Cindy is a Scientist in the UW Carbone Cancer Center.

Dissertation: Understanding the impact of SES on the human gut microbiome in a Wisconsin cohort
Faculty Advisor: Garret Suen
Ibrahim accepted a faculty position at the University of Costa Rica’s School of Agriculture.