Dissertation: A (frame)shift in perspective: Understanding links between HIV-1 translational recoding, viral assembly, and transcript fate Faculty Advisor: Nathan Sherer Bayleigh is currently an NSF postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Julie Huber at WHOI in Massachusetts studying marine microbiology with a focus on the discovery and characterization of deep sea RNA viruses.
Dissertation: No Bacterium is an Island: The Role of Population Structure in Emergence and Maintenance of Pathogens Faculty Advisor: Caitlin Pepperell Lindsey is seeking out her next opportunity.
Dissertation: Host-microbiome interactions impacting pathogen and mutualist colonization within defensive symbioses Faculty Advisor: Cameron Currie Jenny is now an Outreach Coordinator at NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team.
Dissertation: Regulation of expression in the Neisseria gonorrhoeae type IV secretion system Faculty Advisor: Joe Dillard Melanie is an Associate Research Scientist at PPD.
Dissertation: Antagonistic factors impact strain specificity in host-symbiont associations Faculty Advisor: Heidi Goodrich-Blair Daren is working with the Science Philanthropy Alliance as their Infections Disease Fellow. His responsibilities include science communication, advising philanthropists on funding basic science research.
Dissertation: Bacterial regulation of DNA replication elongation. Faculty Advisor: Jade Wang Christina is a scientist at Exact Sciences.
Dissertation: Ralstonia solanacearum Secretion Systems: Critical virulence factors and points of vulnerability Faculty Advisor: Caitilyn Allen Connor is a postdoc at the University of Helsinki.
Dissertation: Lack of a vital RNA polymerase recognition feature results in coordinated control of the majority of R. sphaeroides promoters Faculty Advisor: Rick Gourse Kemardo will be doing a post-doc at Harvard Medical School working in the Hochschild lab.
Dissertation: X. nematophila type VI secretion systems mediate ecologically relevant interactions. Faculty Advisors: Michael Thomas and Heidi Goodrich-Blair Kai does biologics products marketing at Promega in Madison, WI.
Dissertation: The role of trehalose metabolism, signaling, and defense in Ralstonia solanacearum bacterial wilt disease of tomatoes Faculty Advisor: Caitilyn Allen April is a Sr. Soil Microbiologist at Sumitomo Biorational Company in Libertyville, IL.