Ryan Valdez

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Current advisor: Petra Anne Levin, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Arizona, 2019

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary
Using genetic and chemical approaches, I am evaluating the contribution of the major immune signaling molecule and last resort antibiotic target to gram-negative bacterial physiology.

Graduate publications
McKinney RM, Valdez R, Ben-Shahar Y. 2021 The genetic architecture of larval aggregation behavior in Drosophila. J Neurogenet, 35(3):1-16. PMCID: