Graduation 2017

Dissertation: Identifying targets of selection in bacteria with varying levels of recombination.
Faculty Advisor: Caitlin Pepperell
Tatum is a Assistant Professor at University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dissertation: Prostate cancer immunotherapy and the role of PD-1 in regulating immunity.
Faculty Advisor: Douglas McNeel
Brian is a Associate Principal Scientist at Merck.

Dissertation: A gnotobiotic approach to dissect the inpact of microbial choline utilization on host biology.
Faculty Advisor: Federico Rey
Kym is an Associate Scientific Director at ProEd Communications .

Dissertation: Chemical-biological studies of cell division and intracellular organziation in bacteria
Faculty Advisor: Douglas Weibel
Thiago is a postdoc at Harvard.

Dissertation: Using comparative genomics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to engineer lignocellulosic hydrolysate tolerance.
Faculty Advisor: Audrey Gasch
Maria is a Senior Scientist with Cargill in Minneapolis, MN.

Dissertation: Understanding (p)ppGpp mediated mechanisms of persistence and stress survival in Bacillus subtilis.
Faculty Advisor: Jade Wang
Jessy has worked as a Scientist II at Rapid Micro Biosystem in Lowell, MA and is now seeking further opportunities.

Dissertation: Identification of novel kinase substrates and binding partners of Epstein-Barr virus and human cytomegalovirus encoded kinases.
Faculty Advisor: Robert Kalejta
Angie is a Quality Control Analyst at Catalent Pharma Solutions.

Dissertation: Recruitment and roles in host defense for innate immune cells in response to inracellular bacterial infection.
Faculty Advisors: Anna Huttenlocher and JD Sauer
Will is a Microscopy Sales Representative at Olympus Corporation of the Americas.