Graduation 2012

Dissertation: Genetic dissection of flagellar motility and chemtaxias and their roles in the squid-vibrio symbiosis.
Faculty Advisor: Ned Ruby
Caitlin is a Scientific Review Officer at NIAID,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Dissertation: Synthesis of alpha-penolic-riboside monophosphates during adenosyl-cobamide biosynthesis.
Faculty Advisor: Jorge Escalante
Chi is a research scientist at the University of Minnesota.

Dissertation: Substrate specificity of the Phodopseudomonas palustris protein acetyltransferase RpPat.
Faculty Advisor: Jorge Escalante
Heidi is a Research Scientist at New England Biolabs.

Dissertation: Virulence Effects and Signaling Partners Modulated by a Brucella Light Sensing Histidine Kinase.
Faculty Advisor: Gary Spiltter
Chris is a staff microbiologist at the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

Dissertation: Evaluation of Two Novel Antiviral Peptides in a Murine Model of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Keratitis.
Faculty Advisor: Curtis Brandt
Gil is a Strategic Partner, R&D External Manufacturing Manager at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Boston, MA.

Dissertation: The RidA paradigm: An endogenously generated stress and its control.
Faculty Advisor: Diana Downs
Jennifer is a content marketing manager at Canopy Biosciences.

Dissertation: Examining Pathogenic and Mutualistic Regulatory Networks in the Bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophila.
Faculty Advisor: Heidi Goodrich-Blair
Lu is the Vice Director, Office of Overseas R&D Management at Tsinghua University in China.

Dissertation: Characterization of the gonococcal genetic island and peptidoglycan fragment release in Neisseria meningitidis.
Faculty Advisor: Joe Dillard
Katie is now the Director of Microbiology at New Age Laboratories in South Haven, MI.

Dissertation: Structure, function, and therapeutic targeting of SSB protein interactions.
Faculty Advisor: James Keck
Aimee is the Genomic Sequencing Lab Lead at Michigan Technological University.

Dissertation: Motility and signaling systems in uropathogenic Escherichia coli: the role of chemotaxis and c-di-GMP production in fitness in the urinary tract.
Faculty Advisor: Rod Welch
Erica is a Preclinical Services Program Manager at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).