Dissertation: Ecology of the Manduca sexta microbiome.
Faculty Advisors: Jo Handelsman and Heidi Goodrich-Blair
Jonathan is now a faculty Instructor at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon.
Graduation 2013
Myers, Kevin
Dissertation: Integrating Genome-wide Analyses to Investigate the Regulatory Role of FNR and IscR in Response to Anaerobiosis in Escherichia coli.
Faculty Advisor: Patricia Kiley
Kevin is an Assistant Scientist at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center in Madison, WI.
Payne, Amanda
Dissertation: Using a Toxoplasma chronic infection mutant to study the connections between inflammation, metabolism and reproductive hormones.
Faculty Advisor: Laura Knoll
Amanda will be taking a family leave.
Ramsey, Meghan
Dissertation: Location, expression, and regulation of the type IV secretion system in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Faculty Advisor: Joe Dillard
Megan is a member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Starnes, Taylor
Dissertation: Cell motility in inflammatory disease pathogenesis.
Faculty Advisor: Anna Huttenlocher
Taylor is a MD in ophthalmology in the Chicago area.
Whitemarsh, Regina
Dissertation: Characterization of botulinum neurotoxin serotype A subtypes 1 through 5 using in vitro and in vivo approaches.
Faculty Advisor: Eric Johnson
Regina is a Project Manager at Epic Systems Corp.