People Type: Alumni

Choi, Hyunsic

Dissertation: The Seventy-Six Nucleotides in tRNA Act As One Functional Unit. Faculty Advisor: William McClain Hyunsic is working at Scarab Genomics.

Christopherson, Melissa

Dissertation: Probing the Metabolic Context of YJGF in Salmonella enterica. Faculty Advisor: Diana Downs Melissa is a Faculty Associate in the Dept of Bacteriology at UW-Madison.

Chun, Carlee

Dissertation: Genomic and Biochemical Changes during the Onset of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis. Faculty Advisor: Margaret McFall-Ngai Carlene is a MD in Gastroenterology at Castle Rock Adventist Hospital in CO.

Cloud-Hansen, Karen

Dissertation: Lytic transglycosylases are responsible for production of peptidoglycan-derived cytotoxin in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Faculty Advisor: Joe Dillard Karen is self employed as an Editorial Manager.

Conley, Erin

Dissertation: Defining parameters of substrate selection in nonribosomal peptide synthetases Faculty Advisor: Michael Thomas Erin is a research scientist in protein engineering at Promega.

Cowles, Charles

Dissertation: Characterization of Factors Controlling the Species-Specificity of a Model Microbe-Host Interaction. Faculty Advisor: Heidi Goodrich-Blair Charles is a Senior Scientist in In Vitro Diagnostic Quality Control at Promega.

Cowles, Kimberly

Dissertation: Activity and Regulation of Hemolysins in the Insect Pathogen Xenorhabdus nematophila. Faculty Advisor: Heidi Goodrich-Blair Kim is a Research Associate in Jeri Barak's lab in the Department of Plant Pathology, UW-Madison.

Cowley, Elise

Dissertation: Unraveling the Role of the Human Gut Microbiome in Three Conditions: Colorectal Cancer, Group B Streptococcus Colonization, and Multiple Sclerosis Faculty Advisors: Karthik Anantharaman and Drew Hryckowian Elise will be returning to medical school to finish her MD/PhD program.

Cox, Madison

Dissertation: Influencing rumen microbial communities to improve bovine milk production efficiency Faculty Advisor: Garret Suen Madison is now a Bioinformatician with the Altman lab at the University of Washington.

Craver Stangl, Mary Patricia

Dissertation: Isolation and Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii Bradyzoite Development Mutants. Faculty Advisor: Laura Knoll Mary Pat is a freelance medical writer for ScribCo, an organization which provides manuscript writing support for pharmaceutical research on vaccines and cancer therapeutics.