Graduation 2017

Dissertation: SSX: Understanding an Antigen for Therapy in Prostate Cancer.
Faculty Advisor: Douglas McNeel
Jordan is a Scientist with Bristol Myers Squibb.

Dissertation: Further characterizing the response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to zinc limitation by investigating the ATC41 gene and global gene expression.
Faculty Advisor: David Eide
Michael is a patent agent at Corteva Agriscience, LLC in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Dissertation: Dynamic regulation of ribosomal gene expression during adaptation to fluctuating nutritional conditions.
Faculty Advisor: Rick Gourse
Hector is a Scientist at Aldevron.

Dissertation: Lrp dependent virulence modulation in bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophila.
Faculty Advisor: Heidi Goodrich-Blair
Mengyi is a Principal Investigator at the Carnegie Institute for Science and a Visiting Associate at CalTech.

Dissertation: Determinants of Listeria monocytogenes cytosolic survival and evasion of the inflammasome.
Faculty Advisor: JD Sauer
Grischa is a Scientific Lab Manager at the Carnegie Institute for Science.

Dissertation: Increasing the breadth of influenza immunity through informed vaccine design.
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Friedrich
Kelsey is a Bioinformatician at Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.

Dissertation: Innate Immune Defenses Against Aspergillus in Zebrafish Larvae.
Faculty Advisors: Nancy Keller and Anna Huttenlocher
Ben is the Associate Director of Fungal Technology at Terra Bioforge.

Dissertation: Metabolic analyses of Ralstonia solanacearum during plant pathogensis.
Faculty Advisor: Caitilyn Allen
Tiffany is now an Assistant Professor at UC-Davis.

Dissertation: Inferring stress-activated signaling networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals complex pathway integration.
Faculty Advisor: Audrey Gasch
Matt is a Lead Scientific Reviewer at the FDA.

Dissertation: The role of transmission bottlenecks in influenza virus host switching.
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Friedrich
Louise is an Assistant Professor of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.