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 …
Alumni
Alumni Spotlight- Catherine Konopka
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 …
Alumni Spotlight- Ed Himelblau
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: …
Alumni Spotlight- W. Allen Miller
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 …
Alumni Spotlight- Paul Bates
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 …
Alumni Spotlight- Jon Houtman
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 …
Alumni Spotlight: Joy Barnitz
“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 …
New way to alter DNA, affect health circumvents gut bacteria
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 …
2020 Raymond L. Erikson Exceptional Thesis Awardees
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 …
CMB alumnus Timothy Catlett named one of the winners of the 2021 Cool Science Image Contest
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.