Undergraduate Student Accomplishments

• BIT/MB 211 students win 20th Annual NC State Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium in the area of Microbiology.
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• Farah A. Alayli for her work/poster presentation titled: " Role of Mn-Catalase in the growth and metabolism of Lactobacillus plantarum"
  

Graduate Student Accomplishments

• Susan Gardner (Ph.D. student, Olson Lab) has been named recipient of this year's scholarship award from Women in Bio (WIB)! See full story
• Jesse Noar (Ph.D. student, Bruno Lab) has been awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship based on outstanding academic achievement and potential for future accomplishment in his field.
• Rushyannah Killens (Ph.D. student, Grunden Lab) has been appointed to the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) MPhD Ladders Summer Research Program for summer 2011 as a Graduate Student Researcher. This program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Graduate School.
• Justin Bradshaw (Ph.D. student, Sikes Lab) has successfully completed the Preparing the Professoriate program under the mentorship of Dr. Mike Sikes.

Ph.D. Graduates 2011

• Spring
  • Oscar Tirado Acevedo
  • Jason Ray Wilson
• Summer
• Fall
  • Chad E. Cecil
  • Vikrant Dutta

MS Graduates 2011

• Spring
  • Anna Minnis Bryant

MMB Graduates 2011

• Spring
  • Katherine Louise Bridges
  • Tso-Kang Chang
  • Jeffrey Nicholas Gunter
  • Sirisha Kommana
  • Peter Anthony Landis
  • Eric Steven Mayer
  • Gabriel Thomas Mixon
  • Lisa Perkins
  • Jake Bernie Reese
  • Melissa Ann Sandahl
  • Germaine Jiping Siew
  • Amanda Marie Tuttle

MM Graduates 2011

• Spring
  • Aleksandr Grigor'yevich Saksonskiy

• Summer
• Fall
  • Mehnaz Chowdhury

Faculty Accomplishments

Congratulations!! The Board of Trustees has awarded the following Microbiology faculty with reappointment, promotion and/or tenure effective July 1, 2011:

• Dr. José Bruno-Barcena - reappointment to assistant professor
• Dr. Frank Scholle - promoted to associate professor with tenure
• Dr. Michael Sikes - promoted to associate professor with tenure
• Dr. Michael Hyman - promotion to full professor
  
  

Recent Publications

• Troxell, B., M.L. Sikes, R.C. Fink, A. Vazquez-Torres, J. Jones-Carson, and  H.M.Hassan. (2011). Fur negatively regulates hns and is required for the expression of HilA and virulence in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. J. Bacteriol. 193: 497-505.
• Evans, M.R., R.C. Fink, A. Vanquez-Torres, S. Porwollik, J. Jones-Carson, M. McClelland, and H.M. Hassan.  (2011).  Analysis of the ArcA regulon of Salmonella enterica sv. Typhimurium 14028s. BCM Microbiology  2011, 11:58  (doi:101186/1471-2190-11-58)

Staff Accomplishments

• Robert Davis has been elected to the Staff Senate for a third term.
• Sandy Gove has been elected to the Staff Senate.