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 …
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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 …
Alumni Spotlight: Brittany Jacobs
Current Employer: United States Environmental Protection Agency Job Title: Biologist Home Town: Glen Burnie, MD Current Location: Maryland/Washington D.C. Research Topic: Using molecular techniques to define how mechanical signals regulate skeletal muscle mass Faculty Advisor: …
Alumni Spotlight: Emily Vaughan
Current Employer: Affinergy, LLC Job Title: Senior Scientist Home Town: Fort Wayne, IN Current Location: Cary, NC Research Topic: I studied the regulation of actomyosin contractile rings in cellular wound repair and cell division. Faculty …
Alumni Spotlight: Matthew Clay
Current Employer: Thermo Fisher Scientific Job Title: Scientist III Home Town: Grand Ledge, MI Current Location: Madison, WI Research Topic: Molecular characterization of zebrafish neural crest cell epithelial to mesenchymal transition Faculty Advisor: Mary Halloran …
Alumni Spotlight: Thomas Yeager
Current Employer: Victoria University Job Title: Senior Lecturer Home Town: Portland, OR Current Location: Melbourne, Australia Research Topic: The role of tumor suppressor genes in bladder cancer Faculty Advisor: Catherine Reznikoff CMB Degree Received in: …
Alumni Spotlight: Kim Schultz
Current Employer: US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Job Title: Biologist Home Town: Buffalo, NY Current Location: Baltimore, MD Research Topic: Virus-induced apoptosis Faculty Advisor: Paul Friesen CMB Degree Received in: 2008 Describe your current …
Alumni Spotlight: Saheed Imam
Current Employer: Synthetic Genomics, Inc. Job Title: Scientist II Home Town: Lagos, Nigeria Current Location: San Diego, CA Research Topic: Transcriptional and metabolic network analyses of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (a photosynthetic microbe) Faculty Advisor: Timothy Donohue …
Alumni Spotlight: Laura Runyen-Janecky
Current Employer: University of Richmond Job Title: Professor of Biology Home Town: San Antonio, TX Current Location: Richmond, VA Research Topic: My dissertation research focused on characterizing the vfr gene and its role in the …