Current Employer: Ablexis, LLC & AlivaMab Biologics, LLC Job Title: Chief Executive Officer Home Town: San Francisco, CA Current Location: San Diego, CA Short Description of your Graduate School Research: Cell-cycle control of tubulin expression in the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum. Faculty Advisor: William Dove CMB Degree Received in: 1987 What and where is your …
Current Employer: US Patent and Trademark Office Job Title: Patent Examiner Home Town: Midwest Current Location: Annapolis, Maryland Short Description of your Graduate School Research: Characterization of protein and membrane trafficking pathways in plant cells using live cell imaging Faculty Advisor: Sebastian Bednarek CMB Degree Received in: 2007 What and where is your current position? …
Current Employer: Marquette University Job Title: Laboratory Manager Home Town: San Diego, CA Current Location: Milwaukee, WI Short Description of your Graduate School Research: Plant genetics and molecular biology in the Biochemistry Department Faculty Advisor: Richard Amasino CMB Degree Received in: 2000 What and where is your current position? I’m at Marquette University. I retired …
Current Employer: Iowa State University Job Title: Professor Home Town: River Forest, IL Current Location: Ames, IA Short Description of your Graduate School Research: Replication and gene expression mechanisms of brome mosaic virus, a model RNA virus. Faculty Advisor: Timothy C. Hall CMB Degree Received in: 1984 What and where is your current position? I’m …
Current Employer: University of Minnesota Job Title: Teaching Associate Professor Home Town: Greensboro, NC Current Location: Duluth, MN Short Description of your Graduate School Research: I studied enzymes in the ubiquitin-proteosome system and their role in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Faculty Advisor: Richard D. Vierstra CMB Degree Received in: 2000 What and where is your …
Current Employer: University of Iowa Job Title: Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Home Town: Canby, MN Current Location: Iowa City, IA Short Description of your Graduate School Research: Examination of the role of epidermal growth factor and growth hormone in adipocyte differentiation and proliferation. Faculty Advisor: Paul Bertics CMB Degree Received in: 1999 What …
“From the lab bench to the corporate boardroom and at the bedside.” Current Employer: Self-employed Job Title: Chaplin Home Town: Near Chicago, Illinois Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California Short Description of your Graduate School Research: I studied the structure of the ribosomal DNA of two yeast species: Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. …
Our gut microbiome helps us out every day by processing the fiber we can’t digest. The bacteria ferment the fiber into key chemicals known as short-chain fatty acids, or SCFAs, that are essential for human health. SCFAs fight inflammation, help kill dangerous bacteria, protect the lining of the gut, and can even help prevent cancer. …
We are excited to announce that Sid Jain and Amelia Haj are the inaugural recipients of the Raymond L. Erikson Exceptional Thesis Award. This annual award honors CMB students who have written and defended an exceptional thesis. A fund to support the award was created by family and friends in honor of Dr. Erikson who died last year. Dr. Erikson was the second student to graduate from CMB, and …
The yellow connecting arms, called axons, of diseased human brain cells grow willy-nilly across boundaries of inhibitory chemicals (the red stripes). Healthy axons would precisely follow the dark lanes, giving researchers the opportunity to test the effects of disease-causing mutations on axon growth.