People Type: Graduation 2014

Affeldt, Kate

Dissertation: Expanding the Paradign of Oxylipins in Aspergillus flavus. Faculty Advisor: Nancy Keller Kate is faculty at Milwaukee Area Technical College.

Bacot-Davis, Valjean

Dissertation: Structure and dynamics of the Encephalomyocarditis virus Leader protein in deregulation of host nucleocytoplasmic transport. Faculty Advisor: Ann Palmenberg Valjean is now a Resident Physician at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Begemann, Matthew

Dissertation: Investigating the Utility of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 as a Host for Chemical Production. Faculty Advisor: Brian Pfleger Matt is a Senior Director at Benson Hill Biosystems in St. Louis, MO.

Heath-Heckman, Elizabeth

Dissertation: Day/Night cycles in the Eupryma solopes-Vibrio Fisheri symbiosis. Faculty Advisor: Margaret McFall-Ngai Elizabeth is an assistant professor at Michigan State University in the department of Microbiology, Genetics, and Immunology and the department of Integrative Biology.

Hryckowian, Andrew

Dissertation: Insights into the roles and regulation of RpoS in Escherichia coli and Shigella. Faculty Advisor: Rod Welch Andrew is an Assistant Professor at UW-Madison.

Jewell, Kelsea

Dissertation: Characterization of the ruminal bacterial microbiome in relation to host parameters. Faculty Advisor: Garret Suen Kelsea is an Associate Professor at Centralia College in Washington.

Kuny, Chad

Dissertation: The Contribution of UL97 Viral Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Activity of HCMV Infection. Faculty Advisor: Rob Kalejta Chad is a Biosafety officer at Penn State University.

Neal, Lori

Dissertation: TLR11 dependent and independent recognition of Toxoplasma gondii recruits Ly6Chi inflammatory monocytes that can confer resistance to bacterial infection. Faculty Advisor: Laura Knoll Lori is a postdoc at the University of Michigan.

Park, Hyunjun

Dissertation: Towards the biosynthesis of modified natural products. Faculty Advisor: Michael Thomas Hyunjun is the co-founder and CEO at Catalog Technologies Inc.

Sterkel, Alana

Dissertation: Subversion of Innate Immunity by Blastomyces dermatitidis. Faculty Advisor: Bruce Klein Alana is the Associate Director of the Communicable Disease Division at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and an Assistant Professor at UW Madison.