Dissertation: Gut microbiome response to nutritional changes in a high fat diet mouse model and a ground squirrel hibernator Faculty Advisors: Garret Suen and Hannah Carey Edna is a Presidential Management Fellow and Data Scientist at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Office of Inspector General.
Dissertation: Influencing rumen microbial communities to improve bovine milk production efficiency Faculty Advisor: Garret Suen Madison is now a Bioinformatician with the Altman lab at the University of Washington.
Dissertation: Defining factors that influence Zika and dengue virus pathogenic potential Faculty Advisor: Thomas Friedrich Chelsea will be working as a post-doc in with Dr. Sallie Permar at Weill Cornell .
Dissertation: Baculovirus AcMNPV modulates but does not require the host insect Ataxia Telangiectasia-mutated DNA damage response Faculty Advisors: Rob Kalejta and Paul Friesen Jared is a R&D Scientist at FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc in Madison, WI.
Dissertation: The ecology of secondary microbial symbionts: Exploring the diversity and function of bacterial and viral associations with fungus-growing ants Faculty Advisor: Cameron Currie Charlotte now works as an Advancement Senior Specialist at Society for Science, in Washington DC.
Dissertation: Impact of human gut microbes on Clostridioides difficile growth and antibiotic susceptibility in vitro Faculty Advisor: Ophelia Venturelli Susan is a senior scientist at Abbvie.
Dissertation: Using Deep Mutational Scanning to Understand and Engineer Host Specificity in Bacteriophages Faculty Advisor: Vatsan Raman Phil is a co-founder of Synpha Biosciences.
Dissertation: Metagenomics-enabled viral ecology to advance our understanding of human and environmental microbiomes Faculty Advisor: Karthik Anantharaman Kris has taken a position as a scientist at Moderna Genomics.
Dissertation: Diarrheal Diseases Caused by Eukaryotic Microbes: From Murine Models to their Transcriptomes Faculty Advisor: Laura Knoll Carolina will be a scientist at Promega Corporation.
Dissertation: The gonococcal peptidoglycanase interactome and its contributions to protein function, cell morphology, and survival Faculty Advisor: Joe Dillard Krizia is seeking out her next opportunity.