Category Archives: Lab Members

Dissertation Outline DEFENDED by Elias

As a part of the development of graduate students into scientist, each student is required to put together an initial draft of what they imagine their thesis might look like 3-4 years from now. Today, Elias successfully defended his plans for identifying potential scaffold to control the ever growing number of antibiotic-resistance pathogens as well as identifying the target and mechanism of an effector protein that Dr. Heisler has been interested in since 2017.

Bittersweet End to the Summer!

All of undergraduates presented posters today at the Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium highlighting the work our URP, REU, and NURE students conducted over the summer! It was a great time for reflecting on the summer and to celebrate all of the student’s hard work!

Megan completes here summer at PSU

Megan got selected for a Food and Drug Administration funded summer research opportunity in the Food Science Department at Pennsylvania State University! Not only did she do a lot exciting research with Dr. Dudley’s group, she also have the opportunity to tour the FDA headquarters and see how they conduct their important research activities.