Graduation 2024

Dissertation: Gene regulation and signal transduction in γ-proteobacteria
Faculty Advisor: Jason Peters
Emily will be taking a governmental postdoc with the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center.

Dissertation: Systematic genome-wide discovery of host factors governing bacteriophage infectivity
Faculty Advisor: Vatsan Raman
Chutikarn is seeking out her next opportunity.

Dissertation: Impacts of Xanthomonas Foliar Disease on the Fate and Biology of Salmonella enterica
Faculty Advisor: Jeri Barak
Megan is now a Biological Safety Specialist for the Office of Biological Safety at UW-Madison.

Dissertation: Exploring the Impact of Abiotic and Biotic Stresses on Microbial Community Dynamics and Cryptic Secondary Metabolite Gene Cluster Activation
Faculty Advisors: Nancy Keller and Christina Hull
Justin will be working as a postdoc in Emile Gluck-Thaler’s lab at UW-Madison.

Dissertation: Uncovering the distinct growth characteristics of Candida auris in the skin microenvironment
Faculty Advisor: Jeniel Nett
Emily will be a Biology Patent Examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Dissertation: Regulation of a Type VII secretion operon in Bacillus subtilis: The yfj operon
Faculty Advisor: Briana Burton
James is starting law school at University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Dissertation: Listeria monocytogenes adaptations to cell wall stress in the macrophage cytosol
Faculty Advisor: JD Sauer
Kim is a microbiologist at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection.

Dissertation: The Role of Commensal Bacteria in Fungal Defense: Understanding Antifungal Mechanisms of the Human Skin Microbiome
Faculty Advisor: Lindsay Kalan
Thy will be working as a postdoc in the Kalan lab at McMaster University.

Dissertation: Physiological Responses and Genetic Adaptations to Solvent Stressors in Zymomonas mobilis
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Amador-Noguez
Julio will be starting a postdoc soon.

Dissertation: Promoter inversion and anti-termination control mechanisms regulating capsular polysaccharide biosynthesis in the human gut symbiote Bacteroides fragilis
Faculty Advisor: Bob Landick
Jason is a postdoc in the Landick Lab at UW-Madison.