June 25, 2009

We recently had a new Ph.D. student join the lab. Dae Gon Ha, pictured here, did his undergraduate studies at Grinnell College in Iowa before coming to Dartmouth. This summer he'll be working on swarming motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. One of his swarm plates is also pictured here.

June 16, 2009

This past weekend was graduation, and I was fortunate to
have two fantastic students walking this year. Judy Merritt
and Russell Monds. Judy will be starting a biotech post-doc
soon at Glycobia, a new startup in Ithaca, NY. Russell has
been a Bio-X fellow at Stanford for the past several months
and flew cross-country for graduation.

Some more good news! Greg Anderson, a post-doc in the lab, will be heading off to start his own group. He just accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at IUPIU (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis). He'll continue his work studying host-pathogen interactions using P. aeruginosa biofilms on cystic fibrosis cells as a model system. He'll be heading off soon and we wish him the best of luck.

Steve Bernier recently joined the lab as a post-doctoral fellow.
He comes to us by way of a Ph.D. at the University of Calgary working with
Dr. Pamela Sokol on studies of Burkholderia cenocepacia. He also spent
two years on a Canadian Foundation Louis Pasteur Postdoctoral Fellowship
working with Dr. Jean-Marc Ghigo at the Institut Pasteur.

We have had two lab members receive honors recently.

Alicia Ballok was awarded a slot on our NIH-funded Immunology Training Grant.


Chelsea Boyd was appointed to our NIH-funded Molecular Pathogenesis Training Grant.
She also received an Honorable Mention award for her NSF Graduate Fellowship Application.