Current Research Students (November 2013)

• Geoff Diemer, Graduate Student (Ph.D.)
• Eric Iverson, Graduate Student (Ph.D.)
• Jim Laidler, Graduate Student (Ph.D.)

• Megan Baglein, Undergraduate Student
• Claire Couch, Undergraduate Student
• Nkolika Egbukichi, Undergraduate Student
• Jeremy Filip, Undergraduate Student
• David Goodman, Undergraduate Student
• Nick Kosmicki, Undergraduate Student
• Madeline Laws, Undergraduate Student
• Damon McNiel, Undergraduate Student
• Kaltuma Mohamed Nader, Undergraduate Student
• Brownie Tuiasosopo, Undergraduate Student

Postdoctoral Fellow

Running the lab:

• Me

Current Collaborations

• Steve Bell, University of Indiana.
• Laurie Casalot, IRD, Université de Provence, France.
• Michael Ceballos, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
• Yannick Combet-Blanc, Université de Provence, France.
• Dirk Iwata-Reuyl, Portland State University, USA.
• Linda Jahnke, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, USA.
• Martin Lawrence, Montana State University, Montana, U.S.A.
• Marc Morais, U.T. Medical Branch, Texas, U.S.A.
• Marc Nadal, Universite de Versailles, France.
• David Prangishvili, Institut Pasteur, France
• Sohail Qureshi, Lahore University of Management and Science, Pakistan
• Patty Siering, Humboldt State University, California, U.S.A.
• Marie-Claude Serre, Univerisité de Paris, Orsay, France
• Jonathan Trent, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, USA.
• Mark Wilson, Humboldt State University, California, U.S.A.
• Gordon Wolfe, California State University, Chico, California, U.S.A.
• Mark Young, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A.

 Research Advisors

• Sydney Kustu, Molecular and Cell Biology, U.California, Berkeley
• John van der Oost, Microbiology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• Wolfram Zillig r.i.p., Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany.

Previously Advised Students

• Jennifer Kyle, NASA Astrobiology Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, at Pacific Northwest National Lab.
• Adam Clore,Graduate Student (Ph.D.), Postdoc at OHSU, Staff Scientist, IDT.
  • Dissertation: The Family Fuselloviridae: Diversity and Replication of a Hyperthermic Virus Infecting the Archaeon Genus Sulfolobus.
• Melissa DeYoung, Graduate Student (M.Sc.)
• Johanna Rigas, Graduate Student (M.Sc.), D.Vm. OSU, 2008.

• Shannon Adams, Undergraduate Student
• Holly Bradford, Undergraduate Student, Currently at Providence Health System
• Rebecca (Becc) Bridges, Undergraduate Student, Currently in Ph.D. Program at SUNY Stony Brook.
• Stan Brouns, Ph.D. Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Overexpression of homologous proteins in Sulfolobus.
• Ric Butler, Undergraduate Student
• Aric Capel, Undergraduate Student, now at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
• Ricky Chen, Undergraduate Researcher, Now M.D.
• Diana Chung, Undergraduate Student
• Aaron Daugherty, ASE High School Student, B.S. University of Richmond, Currently in Ph.D. Program at Stanford
• Random Diessner, Undergraduate Student, Currently at Heritage University
• Brook Drew, Undergraduate Student
• Coyne Drummond, Undergraduate Student (Honors), Currently in Ph.D. program, University of Pittsburgh
• Derick Falk, Undergraduate Student, Currently at The Medical College of Ohio
• Daniel Flannery, Undergraduate Student.
• Katrina Gates, Undergraduate Student
• Jessica Grebenschikov, Undergraduate Student.
• Maria Haruntunian, REU Student
• Maria Herrera, Undergraduate Student, Currently at OHSU Medical School.
• Kimia Ighani, REU Undergraduate Student
• Alex Jiminez, Undergraduate Student, Currently at OHSU
• Molly Juhlin, Undergraduate Student, previous REU student, D.Pharm program, OSU.
• Hee-Cheol Kim, Undergraduate Student
• Jennifer Kuo , Undergraduate Student, MD program at U. Fl.
• Matt Lambert, Undergraduate Student, graduate program at WSU.
• Sun Jin Lee, Undergraduate Student. Currently at Yale
• Linda Lin, High School Student, Currently at Harvard
• Caleb Marceau, Undergraduate Student (Honors), NIH UGSP Fellow, currently in Ph.D. program at Stanford.
• Blandine Monel, International Student Intern, Currently at Harvard Medical School.
• David Montelongo, REU Student
• Stephen Morris, Undergraduate Student, J.D.
• Andrew Myhra, Undergraduate Student
• Liliana Nankova, High School Student, currently at Reed
• Jennifer Newsted, Undergraduate Student, now at U.Nevada, Las Vegas
• Sarah Parish, Undergraduate Student
• Nicole Paterson, Undergraduate Student, at OHSU
• Katrina Peterson, High School Student. Currently at Yale.
• Andrew Platt, High School Student Brown University
• Adam Sandes, Undergraduate Student, currently at OHSU
• Anja Schweier, M.S. Julius Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany
  • Thesis: Über konjugative Plasmide in Sulfolobus spp.
  • Currently at Roche Diagnostics
• Beth Scott, Undergraduate Student, Currently at U. Arizona
• Michelle Thayer, Undergraduate Researcher. Currently in Ph.D. Program at UCLA
  • Recipient of Undergraduate Research and Creativity Grant, Portland State University, 2006-2007
• Ashley Vassilaros, Undergraduate Student.
• Karen Wallace, Undergrauate Student.
• Daniel Wark, Undergraduate Student
• Laura White, Undergraduate Student (Honors), currently in Ph.D. Program at OSHU
• Carrie Widman (Brandon), Undergraduate Researcher, Currently at Pacific University Pharmacy School
• Kameron Witham, Undergraduate Student
• Joel Womack, Undergraduate Student
• Caroline Zaoui, Undergraduate Student, Currently at U. Braunschweig, Germany
• Yujie Zeng, High School Student, Currently at Columbia University
• Luisa Zoeller, Undergraduate Student

Last updated: 15 Nov, 2013