University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Graduation 2026

Al-Oboudi, Jassim

Dissertation: Population genomics and genome evolution in a cosmopolitan yeast
Faculty Advisor: Chris Hittinger
Jassim is a postdoc in the Ane lab at UW-Madison.

Bussan, Hailey

Dissertation: Making Memory T cells: T cell heterogeneity before and after antigen exposure
Faculty Advisors: Marulasiddappa Suresh and Federico Rey
Hailey will be returning to medical school to finish her MD/PhD program.

Deblois, Courtney

Dissertation: Characterizing the dynamics of Salmonella enterica serovar Cerro on a Wisconsin dairy farm
Faculty Advisor: Garret Suen
Courtney is seeking out her next opportunity.

Martin, Cody

Dissertation: Decoding the language of viral genomes with evolutionary-scale, context-aware genome language models
Faculty Advisor: Karthik Anantharaman
Cody is transitioning to industry and will be working as a postdoc.

Nichols, Holly

Dissertation: Community Assembly and Genomic Diversity of Mosquito-Associated Bacteria
Faculty Advisor: Kerri Coon
Holly will be a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh in Tera Levin’s lab.

Ye, Ziyun

Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Chromatin Organization of Latent Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Poises the Virus for Reactivation
Faculty Advisor: Donna Neumann
Ziyun will be working at Pharmaron as a bioanalyst.