Feb – Sept 2023 Updates
September 2023: Congratulations to Adi, Lisa, and Rebecca who presented their work at the International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference! Congratulations to Jason, Kirstin, and Stephen on their new preprint, Optimal environmental testing frequency for outbreak surveillance.
August 2023: We welcome Rachel Mittelstaedt who is joining us as an Infectious Diseases Fellow and Bailey Bowcutt who is joining us as a rotation student from the Biological Sciences in Public Health Program! Congratulations to Emily on her new publication, Resistance-minimizing strategies for introducing a novel antibiotic for gonorrhea treatment: a mathematical modeling study, published in Lancet Microbe. Congratulations to Tatum on her publication, A genomic perspective on the near-term impact of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis on Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial resistance, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
July 2023: It is bittersweet to say goodbye to Tatum and Stephen who are starting their own labs as Assistant Professors at the University of Georgia and the University of Colorado, respectively. Thank you for all of the incredible work that you have done in genomics, modeling, epidemiology, mentoring, and so much more over the years. We will miss you so much and can’t want to hear about all that your labs will discover!
February 2023: Congratulations to Dan for his successful PhD defense on “Mechanisms and acquisition of antibiotic resistance in N. gonorrhoeae”! We wish you all the best for the last years of medical school and we are looking forward to still seeing you around.
February 2023 Welcome (back) Kirstin! After finishing her PhD on machine-learning-based forecasting of dengue fever in Brazil (and doing a rotation in the Grad lab in 2022) she is now joining the lab as a postdoc. We also welcome Alexandra Poret, a rotation student from the Biophysics program. She will focus on the genetic diversity of outer membrane proteins in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and other Neisseria species. Good to have you both!
