People
Chris Waters-My days are generally spent answering emails and typing, but I love getting to see all the cool things my students do. And once in a while I get in the lab and do an experiment myself!
Amber Bedore, M.S.-Amber is our super awesome lab manager that keeps everything together! In addition to running the lab, Amber is developing tools to quantify single cell levels of c-di-GMP.
Micah Ferrell, PhD-Micah, a postdoc, joined the lab in October, 2021. Micah has two projects, working to understand the enzymatic activity of the phage-defense cytidine deaminase AvcD and exploring new cyclic di-nucleotide signaling systems.
Aathmaja Rangarajan, PhD-Aathmaja is a postdoc in the lab who started January of 2022. Aathmaja studies cyclic di-GMP signaling in V. cholerae, and is researching the transcriptional network of the system and the impact of metals on c-di-GMP signaling.
Jasper Gomez-Jasper is a PhD graduate student who joined the lab March of 2022. Jasper is interested in microbial evolution, and his project centers around discovering novel molecular defense systems that allow bacteria to resist phage infection.
Alex Wessel-Alex is a PhD graduate student who joined the lab in February of 2021. Alex is developing a high-throughput mtuagenesis system called BAR-Seq in V. cholerae to link genes with their given functions.
Kaylee Wilburn-Kaylee is a PhD graduate student who joined the lab in May, 2021 and is our resident phage expert. She wants to understand how phage defense pathways in V. cholerae impact its environmental persistence and evolution.
Aubree Muethel-Aubree is an undergraduate researcher who joined the lab in May of 2022. Aubree is working with Micah to identify new cyclic di-nucleotide signaling systems.
Elise Trost-Elise is an MSU undergrad researcher who joined the lab May of 2021. Elise is exploring phage/bacterial interaction and characterizing the resistant profile of V. cholerae strains isolated from Africa to better help direct treatment strategies.
Postdocs
Natasha Vukov, Ph.D.-2010
Karthik Sambanthamoorthy, Ph.D.-2011
Will Soto, Ph.D.-2016
Alessandra Hunt, Ph.D.-2019
Nkrumah Grant, Ph.D.-2023
Graduate Students
Adam Edmunds, M.S.-2011
Disha Srivastava, Ph.D.-2014
Ben Koestler, Ph.D.-2014
John Shook, M.S.-2016
Eric Bruger, Ph.D.-2016
Ben Pursley, Ph.D.-2016
Rudy Sloup, Ph.D.-2016
Michael Maiden, DO/Ph.D.-2018
Meng-lun Hsieh, DO/Ph.D.-2018
Nico Fernandez, Ph.D.-2019
Amber Bedore- M.S.-2019
Geoff Severin-Ph.D.-2020
Brian Hsueh-Ph.D.-2022
Soo Yoon-DO/PhD-2022
Undergraduate Students
David Szandzik-2009
Carolyn Chan-2011
Megan Hull-2011
Kuenyoun Jang-2011
Jon Massie-2012
Amanda Ngouajio-2012
Lauren Priniski-2012
Ashley Konal-2012
Alani Adkins-2012
Jessica Hunter-2013
Evan Reynolds-2013
Sarah Smaga-2013
Josh Smith-2013
Mark Johnson-2013
Melanie Callaghan-2013
Prateek Garg-2013
Rachel Rudlaff-2014
Zamone Sawyer-2014
Kevin Baker-2015
Markus Sievertsen-2015
Katherine Magoulick-2015
Morgan Miller-2016
Jake Gibson-2017
Cassie Larivee-2017
Jenny Nyberg-2017
Ben Franco-2017
Macy Pell-2017
Charnay Gloss-2018
Chris Rhoades-2018
Hannah Smith-2018
Mitch Zachos-2018
Connor Riegal-2018
Emily Segneri-2018
Nils Benning-2019
Joe Williams-2020
Alyssa Corpus-2020
Kyle McCoy-2020
Megan Seyerle-2020
Jacob Hieber-2021
Brennan Grimes-2022
Samy Mechrouki-2022
Drew Beckman-2023
Ram Sanath Kumar-2023
Hilary Roberts-2023
Antoine Glorieux-2023
High School Students
Maurice Wilkins-2013
Gucci Fan-2015
Neehal Tumma-2019
Visiting Scholars
Ann-Katrin Kieninger, Germany-2015
Lara Behrman, Germany-2017
Sebastian Myllek, Germany-2017
Nik Kiel, Germany-2019
Marius Karbach, Germany-2020
Elisa Klienfeld, Germany-2021
Samy Mechrouki, Germany-2022
Antoine Glorieux, Belgium-2023