Dissertation: The Effects of Serine and Acetate Metabolism on the Ability of Escherichia coli CFT073 to Colonize the Murine Urinary Tract. Faculty Advisor: Rod Welch Andrew is now an Associate Director of Product Management at LGC Clinical Diagnostics.
Dissertation: Characterization of the Yeast Phase Specific YPS3 Gene of Histoplasma capsulatum. Faculty Advisor: Jon Woods Megan is a Data Analysis Supervisor at Quartz Health Solutions.
Dissertation: Elements of Plasmid R6K Replication Control. Faculty Advisor: Marcin Filutowicz Lisa is an Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College.
Dissertation: Genetics and Biochemistry of Class II Phosphotransacetylases: Enzymes and Sensors of Nutrition, Energy and Redox State of Prokaryotic Cells. Faculty Advisor: Jorge Escalante Shaun is the Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Dissertation: The Seventy-Six Nucleotides in tRNA Act As One Functional Unit. Faculty Advisor: William McClain Hyunsic is working at Scarab Genomics.
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.
Dissertation: Processing and Presentation of Variant Surface Glycoprotein during African Trypanosomiasis. Faculty Advisor: John Mansfield Taylor is a partner at Big Rose Web Design, LLC.
Dissertation: Liberation of Pro-inflammatory Peptidoglycan Fragments from the Gonococcal Cell. Faculty Advisor: Joe Dillard is a Senior Health Scientist for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is currently serving as the Associate Director for Laboratory Science at CDC-Ethiopia, strengthening laboratory systems and laboratory services capacity for infectious diseases.
Dissertation: Role of IscR in regulation of Fe-S Biogenesis in Escherichia coli. Faculty Advisor: Patricia Kiley Jennifer is a freelance medical writer.
Dissertation: Immunostimulatory DNA and the Innate Immune Response to Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. Faculty Advisor: Donna Paulnock Tajie is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia.