Recent Graduates :

Below is a list of the most recent Microbiology graduates, their dissertation title, date, and current affiliation:

Brenda Clapper: October 8, 2004 "Investigating the Importance of Putative Mycoplasma arthritidis Virulence Factors in the Development of Rodent Arthritis"
Current Position: Medical Writer, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, California.

Nathan Kelly: August 30, 2004 "Intersection of tRNA Biogenesis with Primer Selection by Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, Cancer Research Division (Dr. Richard Gaynor).

Joe Salas-Marco: July 30, 2004 "Mechanisms of Translation Termination in Eukaryotes"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology (Dr. Pamela Silver).

Crystal Johnson: July 9, 2004 "Molecular Epidemiology and Characterization of Macrolide and Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Pathology (Dr. Joseph Messina).

Ivaylo Ivanov: July 6, 2004 "Development of the Primary Antibody Repertoire: The Illusion of Free Will"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center (Dr. Dan Littman).

Lance Eckerle: April 14, 2004 "Flock House Virus Subgenomic RNA3 Synthesis and RNA Replication"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Dr. Mark Denison).

Ashalla Magee: April 13, 2004 "Role of Capsule in Animal Models of Streptococcus pneumoniae Virulence"
Current Position: SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Dr. Robert Bourret).

Sheetal Purohit: April 9, 2004 "The Role of Cytokine and Growth Factor Signaling In Hematopoiesis and Leukemia"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (Dr. Teresa Ku).

Tara Cartee: April 1, 2004 "Investigation of the Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Proteins Involved in Viral Transcription"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Microbiology (Dr. Gail Wertz).

Christy Ventura: March 8, 2004 "Preludes to Polysaccharides: Characterization of Precursors of Capsule Biosynthesis in Streptococcus Pneumoniae"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, University of Washington, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases (Dr. Craig Rubens).

Jason Johnston: November 7, 2003 "The Role of Manganese in the Virulence of Streptococcus Pneumoniae"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Iowa, Department of Microbiology (Dr. Michael Apicella).

David (Dakin) Williams: October 22, 2003 "Discovery of Peptides that Bind Specifically to Bacillus Anthracis Spores"
Current Position: University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical School, MD/PhD Program Clinical Rotations.

Zheng (Jane) Zhang: October 8, 2003 "The Role of EBF and Helios in Hematopoiesis"
Current Position: Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Dr. Daniel G. Tenen).

Kristen Hoek: September 24, 2003 "Modulaton of Cellular Activation and Signal Transduction in Mast Cells by Mycoplasma pneumoniae"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Dr. Wasif Khan).

Jason Lanman: September 4, 2003 "HIV Assembly and Maturation"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular Biology (Dr. John E. Johnson).

Rachael Reiman: August 18, 2003 "The Role of the Anaphylatoxin C5a in Inflammatory Disorders of the CNS"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases (Dr. Tom Wynn).

David Aiello: August 1, 2003 "A Role for Glucose-6-Phosphate and Glucose-1-Phosphate in Regulating Calcium Homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School (Dr. Michael Green).

Jeffrey Sfakianos: June 10, 2003 "Targeted Assembly and Cytoplasmic Transport of Mason - Pfizer Monkey Virus Capsids"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Department of Cell Biology (Dr. Ira Mellman).

Bing Ren: May 23, 2003 "The Role of Pneumococcal Surface Protein A in Virulence of a Capsular Serotype 3 Streptococcus Pneumoniae: Complement Attack versus Bacterial Evasion"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Microbiology, (Dr. David Briles).

Kalaya Attanavanich: April 11, 2003 "Functional Differences Between Marginal Zone and Follicular B Cells in T-Dependent Immune Responses"
Current Position: Faculty, Thammasat University School of Medicine, Thailand.

Colleen Witt: March 24, 2003 "The Role of Notch2 in Hematopoiesis"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology (Dr. Ellen Robey).

Stephen Brooks: March 12, 2003 "CD19 Cytoplasmic Tyrosines, Their Binding Partners and Downstream Signaling: An In Vitro Study"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH, Molecular Immunology & Inflammation Branch (Dr. John O'Shea).

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