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 an Associate Director of Global Procurement 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).