Alumni - Senior Project Students
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Lexi Akingbade '18
“Impact of Acidity on Vibrio cholerae in Foodborne Environments" Lily Brennessel '18 “Impact of Electronic Cigarette Smoke Vapor on Biofilm Production in Staphylococcus aureus” Slav Skular '18 “Investigations into the Mechanisms of Violacein Mediated Death in C. elegans” Jackson Barr '17 “Constructing a Novel Conjugate Vaccine for Cholera: Conjugation of a Protective Vibrio cholerae Virulence Factor to Dextran by Squaric Acid Chemistry” Currently: Research assistant, Johns Hopkins Sophia Konstantine '17, (Bard) MAT '18 “An Investigation into the Anti-nematodal Properties of Janthinobacterium lividum using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model” Currently: Bard MAT: Biology Dynte' Moore '17 “Potentially Pathogenic: The Classification and Examination of Environmental Vibrio Isolates Sampled from Water Sources Along the Gulf Coast and the Bahamas” Currently: Bard L&T Assistant Kelsey O'Brien '17 “The Genomic Characterization of Oxalobacteraceae Isolates from the Hudson Valley region: A Proposed Genomic Pipeline” Currently: Research Assistant, Planet Lab, CHOP Biz Osborne-Schwartz '17 “Attachment of Vibrio cholerae to resistant starches to improve oral rehydration therapy” Currently: Pre Med Coursework Cassandra Savino '17 “Lime juice as an abundant and affordable mechanism for prevention of food borne cholera infection.” Currently: Global MPH- Emory University Katherine Moccia '16 “What makes a healthy aquatic environment? Investigating the Effects of Hydraulic Fracturing Material Glutaraldehyde on Bacterial Communities” Currently: PhD Program at University of Tennessee Alessia Zambrano '16 “Examination of violacein-producing Janthinobacterium species’ biofilm structure” Currently: Physician Office Asst. Slone Kettering Deanna DePietro '16 “Exploring Copper Tolerance in an Aquatic Janthinobacterium species: An Examination of Biofilm Formation and Viability for Environmental Applications” Currently: Research Assistant, Cary Institute Yegor Dukashin '16 “Examination of the Activity of Glycosyltransferases in the Development of Streptococcus mutans Biofilms in Response to Sucrose” Currently: DDS Student at University of Buffalo Dre Szegedy-Maszak '16 “Optimization of the Microbial Fuel Cell for Use in Novel STEM Pedagogy” Currently: Field Outreach Coordinator for Afterschool Alliance Tytravia Riley '16 “The Interaction between Violacein Producing Bacteria and Metarhizium anisopliae F52” Abby Soussan '15 “Investigation of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Zoospore Movement in Response to Violacein-Producing Bacteria” Entering Veterinary School, Fall 2018 Alexander Page '16 “The Antibacterial Activity of Tryptophan-derived Pigments Violacein and Deoxychromoviridans on Four Common Bacterial Strains” Georgia Doing '15 “Machine Learning on Images of a Microbial Mutant Library” (Joint project with Computer Science Program) Currently: PhD student at Dartmouth MCB Program Mildred Kissai '15 Currently: Research Associate Moderna Theraputics (Joint Project with Chemistry Program) Kody Chen '15 “Synthesis and Assays of Potential Anti-Cancer Ruthenium-Ferrocene Compounds” (Joint project with Chemistry Program) Francesca Di Rienzo '14 “Design and development of a chitin-based method for Vibrio cholerae filtration” M.S. Program in Psychology Molly North '14 “Transposon based analysis of violacein production in Janthinobacterium lividum” Currently: Maker Mentor, Free Library of Philadephia Neena Marano '14 “Characterization of biofilm production in Janthinobacterium lividum” Currently: Marketing Coordinator, Reaction Biology Julia Les '14 “Biofilm production and swarming motility of Pseudomonas putida in the presence of sub-inhibitory concentrations of the antibiotic chloramphenicol” MS and OD Candidate at the New England College of Optometry QA Engineer, Akamai Technologies Adenike Akapo '13 “Do soil microbes inhibit the growth of oral microbes? A natural antibiotic treatment for dental overgrowth” Currently: Clinical Research Coordinator, NYU Raed Al-Abbasee '13 "Evidence for the presence of colonization factor GlcNAc binding protein A in Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype variant” Currently: GSBS PhD Program at UMass Medical School Perry Anderson '13 “Carbon source effect on violacein production [in] Hudson Valley aquatic microbial isolates” Alexia Downs '13 “Colonization and conjugation in Vibrio cholerae: the possible link between the GbpA attachment factor and the presence of IncA/C multidrug resistance plasmids” Teach for America Fellow in Los Angeles, CA Margo Finn '13 “An Investigation of the Molecular Mechanism of Quorum Sensing in Janthinobacterium lividum” Currently: Research Associate, Seattle Genetics Lena James '13 “Effects of chitin on conjugation frequencies of the multi-drug resistant plasmid IncA/C from donor Aeromonas salmonicida AS03 to recipient Vibrio cholerae BAA-2163 (Haitian epidemic isolate)” Currently: Quality Control, Ceres Theraputics Erin Smith '13, MAT '17 (Standford) “The effects of violacein-producing bacterial strains on Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis using a novel chytrid-killing assay” Current position: 2017 Knowles Teaching Fellow Sara Yilmaz '13 “Acquiring multi-drug resistance in aquatic environments: the role of chitin in conjugation frequencies of the IncA/C plasmid between Aeromonas salmonicida subs. salmonicida AS03 and Vibrio cholerae MQ1795 (Bangladeshi isolate)” Currently: Testing Technologist, Biomat, USA Liza Miller '13 “Survey of vernal pools in the Hudson Valley yields bacterial isolates which inhibit the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis” Currently: PhD student at Washington University, St. Louis Sining Leng '12 “Characterization a mutation in the gene IRE1 using a cooperative tumor model in Drosophila: role of the unfolded protein response in cancer” Currently: PhD student in BBS Program Harvard University Jananie Ravi '12 “Characterization of differences in biofilm formation and violacein production in environmental strains of Janthinobacterium lividum” Project Coordinator, Migration Health Unit UN Emma Taylor Salmon '12 “Examination of transfer frequency of a multi-drug resistant plasmid to Vibrio cholerae via conjugation” Currently: 4th year medical student, Drexel University Veronica Steckler '12 “Environmental detection of bacterial with anti fungal activity against the amphibian pathogen Batracochytrium dendrobatidis: a preliminary survey of Janthinobacterium in the Hudson Valley” Joshua Tanner '11 “Interruption of vioC in a Janthinobacterium sp. mutant produces a green pigment structurally similar to chromoviridans” Currently: Pharmaceutical Sales Specialist, AstraZeneca Alexandra Bettina, (Bard) '10, PhD UVA '16 “The preliminary identification and classification of Janthinobacterium hyper-violacein producing mutants as effective anti-microbial agents” Scientific Writer, Regeneron Jyoti Dev '09 “Co-localization and interaction of a retroviral Gag protein with cellular caveolin-1 protein” Currently: PhD candidate in virology at Harvard Medical School Will Wylie '09 “Predation effectiveness and biofilm composition in Bdellovibrio and its prey” Currently: Medical Student, University of Rochester Medical School |
BSRI Students2010
Alexandra Bettina 2011 Joshua Tanner 2012 Lena James H. Sara Yilmaz Ashley Beaulieu (St. Joseph’s College, Standish ME 2013 Molly North Griffin Burke Emily Hoelzli Shailab Shrestha 2014 Georgia Doing Yangtsho Gyaltshen 2015 Yegor Dukashin Kelsey O’Brien Raneem Jo’Beh (Al Quds) 2016 Kelsey O'Brien 2017 Lexi Akingbade Philippine Alba |