People Type: Alumni

Wright, Erik

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.

Yang, Jin

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.

Ye, Ziyun

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.

Yeesin, Ponlkrit

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.

Young, Soleil

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.

Youngblom, 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.

Zayas-Aponte, Carmen

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.

Zelasko, Susan

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.

Zuke, Jason

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.

Zuleger, Cindy

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.