Graduation 2025

Dissertation: Host-microbe feedbacks in a tripartite symbiosis
Faculty Advisor: Kerri Coon
Aldo is seeking his next opportunity.

Dissertation: Defining parameters of substrate selection in nonribosomal peptide synthetases
Faculty Advisor: Michael Thomas
Erin will be doing a postdoc in protein engineering at Promega.

Dissertation: Integrative Functional Genomics to Enhance Bioenergy Stress Tolerance of Zymomonas mobilis
Faculty Advisor: Jason Peter
Amy is seeking her next opportunity.

Dissertation: Synthetic biology approaches for exploring medium chain fatty acid production in anaerobic bacterial communities
Faculty Advisor: Ophelia Venturelli
Madeline will be doing a postdoc at the Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI) on the Innovative Genomics Institute campus in UC-Berkeley with Ben Rubin and Brady Cress.

Dissertation: Molecular determinants of Flavobacterium johnsoniae behavior in the THOR microbial community
Faculty Advisor: Jo Handelsman
Shruthi will be the lead microbiologist at Proctor & Gamble’s Baby Care division.

Dissertation: Computational Microbiology Across the Bench, Clinic, and Classroom: Improved Metagenomic Binning, Wound Microbiome Characterization, and Pedagogical Practice
Faculty Advisor: Jason Kwan
Shane is seeking his next opportunity.

Dissertation: Understanding recent and ancestral trends in the evolution of microbial biosynthetic gene clusters
Faculty Advisor: Lindsay Kalan
Rauf is a postdoc in the Relman lab at Stanford University.

Dissertation: Flies as carriers of clinically relevant bacteria in agricultural reservoirs
Faculty Advisor: Kerri Coon
Andrew is finishing a collaboration with INRAE-UCA in France.

Dissertation: Multiplexing regulation of gene expression in budding yeast with synthetic biology
Faculty Advisor: Megan McClean
Timothy will be working as a postdoc in Megan McClean’s lab at UW-Madison.

Dissertation: Sex in theory and practice: Genetics and reproduction in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis
Faculty Advisors: Cameron Currie and Anne Pringle
Soleil will be working as a postdoc in Christina Hull’s lab at UW-Madison.