Graduation 2025

Dissertation: Host-microbe feedbacks in a tripartite symbiosis
Faculty Advisor: Kerri Coon
Aldo is a postdoc in molecular ecology at University of Michigan.

Dissertation: Dissecting the Role of the Fungal Oxylipin Responsive Transcription Factor ZfpA in the Echinocandin Tolerance of Human Pathogenic Aspergilli
Faculty Advisor: Nancy Keller
Dante is a postdoc in the Huttenlocher lab at UW-Madison.

Dissertation: Defining parameters of substrate selection in nonribosomal peptide synthetases
Faculty Advisor: Michael Thomas
Erin is a research scientist in protein engineering at Promega.

Dissertation: Elucidating Regulatory Inputs Controlling Expression of the Salmonella dmsA Homologs
Faculty Advisor: Johanna Elfenbein
Eddy is returning to vet school to finish his DVM/PhD dual degree.

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

Dissertation: Tracing the Origins and Evolutionary History of Translation GTPases
Faculty Advisor: Betül Kaçar
Evrim is working as a postdoc in the Hlouchova lab at Charles University in Prague.

Dissertation: Adaptive strategies employed by Clostridioides difficile in response to environmental and nutritional cues
Faculty Advisor: Drew Hryckowian
Anna will be teaching microbiology at Edgewood College.

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: Why is the DNA virus Hepatitis B not a RNA virus? – Understanding virion morphogenesis in HBV
Faculty Advisor: Dan Loeb
Abena is a postdoc in the Sugden lab at UW-Madison.

Dissertation: Genome-scale insights into interspecies natural transformation and mosaic recombination in Bacillus subtilis
Faculty Advisor: Briana Burton
Jonathan will be a Teaching Specialist for Microbiology 101 at UW-Madison.