Michael
Carter
Michael
spent his undergraduate years at Indiana University, Bloomington where
he finished a B.S. in Microbiology and a B.A. in Biochemsitry.
At
Indiana, he worked with Dr. Clay Fuqua on microbial ecology
in tick
populations across the United States. He is now working on
elucidating
the mechanisms responsible for regulating carbon flow through the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway and the methylmalonyl-CoA pathway.
Steven Carlson Steven
is a former high school teacher from Logan, Ohio who graduated with a
B.S. in Wildlife Biology from Ohio University. He is now a
graduate student in Ohio State's Microbiology Department and is tasked
with comparing Ccr (crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase) and AcuI
(acrylyl-CoA reductase) in an effort to identify which features create
the distinctions in their reductive strategies.
Phillip Schuld Phillip was a Microbiology major whose interests included rock climbing
and long distance running. He worked to genetically and
phenotypically characterize transposon mutants generated by large-scale
transposon mutageneis performed in the Microbial Genetics courses.
He finished his undergraduate work with a thesis in which he contributed to the characterization of the role of mcm (methylmalonyl-CoA mutase) in the methylmalonyl-CoA pathway in Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
Jessica Adair Jessica
graduated with her B.S. in Biological Engineering while also participating in the band as a trumpet
player.
During her
time in the lab, she identified a potential TRAP transporter for
glutamate. Immediately following her Bachelor's degree, she
worked for the EPA, frolicking in streams and
traveling all over Ohio. She is now a graduate student at Ohio
State in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program - Molecular and Cellular
Development.
Kelsey Baron Kelsey
graduated with a B.S. in Biology and a second B.S. in Spanish. In
the lab, Kelsey was responsible for much of the molecular biology. She worked toward developing markerless, in-frame
chromosomal deletions of the genes involved in the
ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway. She is now a student at the University of Toledo Medical Center.
Jordan
Allen
Jordan
graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.S. in Molecular Genetics. He worked with Marie in screening R.
sphaeroides transposon mutants in an effort to identify
genes that are required for growth on a variety of carbon sources.
See a poster of his work at the 2010
Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. He is now studying at Ohio State's College of Medicine. He intends to specialize in urology.
Emily Smith
Emily graduated with a
B.S. in Microbiology. In addition to volunteering
for Wonders
of Our World, she also worked with Marie in identifying
genes from genetic screens that are resposible for R. sphaeroides
growth on a number of substrates. See a poster of her work at
the 2010
Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. She is now a graduate student in the Integrated Biomedical Graduate Program here at Ohio State.
Lauren
Branditz
Lauren graduated from the Ohio State
University
with a B.S. in Microbiology in 2009. She accepted an
offer to attend the Ohio State's College of Medicine where
she is currently a student persuing her M.D. The lab is
grateful for her work on laying the foundation for the study of the
regulation of the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway.