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Natasha Bilkey

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Ram Dixit

Thesis Title: Investigation into the Mechanisms and Consequences of Microtubule-Based Symmetry Breaking in Plant

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Helen Blaine

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Christina L. Stallings

Thesis Title: Investigating the role of DciA during the cell cycle of Mycobacterium

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Kevin Blake

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Antibiotic Resistance at Sequence, Population, and Global Scales

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Ryan Calcutt

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Ram Dixit

Thesis Title: Developing tools to study the effect of the mechanical environment on plant cell growth and morphogenesis

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Tayte Campbell

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Multi-omic understanding of the evolution of xenobiotic tolerance in bacterial isolates and communities

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Jennette Codjoe

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Elizabeth S. Haswell

Thesis Title: Connections between mechanosentive ion channel MSL10 and ER-plasma membrane contact sites

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Eric Conners

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Arpita Bose

Thesis Title: Sustainable plastics from plastic metabolisms: leveraging metabolically versatile purple non-sulfur bacteria for polyhydroxyalkanoate synthesis

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Emily Davenport

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Sebla Bulent Kutluay

Thesis Title: Multi-omic analysis of phototrophic extracellular electron uptake in novel Rhodovulum spp. isolated from a marine estuary

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Kiona Elliott

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Bart

Thesis Title: Investigating Cassava Susceptibility to Xanthomonas Induced Bacterial Blight using Disease Phenotyping and Genome Engineering Strategies

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Ryan Emenecker

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Alex S. Holehouse

Thesis Title: Molecular mechanisms modulating auxin response across different tissues