People
Chris Waters, PI
Chris enjoys studying chemical signaling in bacteria and the evolutionary interplay of bacteria and their phages. He is lucky to work with the following awesome people!
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Micah Ferrell, PhD
Micah, a postdoc, joined the lab in October, 2021. Micah has two projects, working to understand the enzymatic activity of the phage-defense cytidine deaminase AvcD and exploring new cyclic di-nucleotide signaling systems.
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Aathmaja Rangarjan, PhD
Aathmaja is a postdoc in the lab who started January of 2022. Aathmaja studies cyclic di-GMP signaling in V. cholerae, and is researching the transcriptional network of the system and the impact of metals on c-di-GMP signaling.
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Geoff Severin, PhD
Geoff is a Research Assistant Professor at MSU working with the lab. Geoff is studying phage evolution and how bacteria defend against phage attack.
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Angela Prete, BS
Angela is a Masters student who is using barcoded TN-Seq to explore cyclic di-GMP signaling in Vibrio cholerae.
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Delaney Dixon, BS
Delaney is a Masters student working with Geoff to study a novel phage defense system called Quartet.
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Marissa Malleck
Marissa is an undergraduate student working with Aathmaja to study metal dependent cyclic di-GMP signaling in V. choelrae.
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Mehak Banga
Mehak is an undergraduate student studying a new phage defense system from V. cholerae.
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Drew Johnson
Drew is an undergraduate student studying how Vibrio cholerae survives bile acid stress.
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Ashlynn Linet
Ashlynn is an undergraduate in the lab developing new approaches to perform transposon mutagenesis in phages.
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Preethika Lakshminarayanan
Preethika is an undergraduate in the lab working with Aathmaja studying the impact of different amino acids on the activity of different GGDEF-containing enzymes
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Ariana Straus
Ariana is an undergraduate in the lab studying phage defense in V. cholerae.
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Natasha Vukov, Ph.D.-2010
Karthik Sambanthamoorthy, Ph.D.-2011
Will Soto, Ph.D.-2016
Alessandra Hunt, Ph.D.-2019
Nkrumah Grant, Ph.D.-2023
Adam Edmunds, M.S.-2011
Disha Srivastava, Ph.D.-2014
Ben Koestler, Ph.D.-2014
John Shook, M.S.-2016
Eric Bruger, Ph.D.-2016
Ben Pursley, Ph.D.-2016
Rudy Sloup, Ph.D.-2016
Michael Maiden, DO/Ph.D.-2018
Meng-lun Hsieh, DO/Ph.D.-2018
Nico Fernandez, Ph.D.-2019
Amber Bedore- M.S.-2019
Geoff Severin-Ph.D.-2020
Brian Hsueh-Ph.D.-2022
Soo Yoon-DO/Ph.D-2022
Jasper Gomez-Ph.D.-2025
Alex Wessel-Ph.D.-2025
David Szandzik-2009
Carolyn Chan-2011
Megan Hull-2011
Kuenyoun Jang-2011
Jon Massie-2012
Amanda Ngouajio-2012
Lauren Priniski-2012
Ashley Konal-2012
Alani Adkins-2012
Jessica Hunter-2013
Evan Reynolds-2013
Sarah Smaga-2013
Josh Smith-2013
Mark Johnson-2013
Melanie Callaghan-2013
Prateek Garg-2013
Rachel Rudlaff-2014
Zamone Sawyer-2014
Kevin Baker-2015
Markus Sievertsen-2015
Katherine Magoulick-2015
Morgan Miller-2016
Jake Gibson-2017
Cassie Larivee-2017
Jenny Nyberg-2017
Ben Franco-2017
Macy Pell-2017
Charnay Gloss-2018
Chris Rhoades-2018
Hannah Smith-2018
Mitch Zachos-2018
Connor Riegal-2018
Emily Segneri-2018
Nils Benning-2019
Joe Williams-2020
Alyssa Corpus-2020
Kyle McCoy-2020
Megan Seyerle-2020
Jacob Hieber-2021
Brennan Grimes-2022
Samy Mechrouki-2022
Drew Beckman-2023
Ram Sanath Kumar-2023
Hilary Roberts-2023
Antoine Glorieux-2023
Elise Trost-2024
Aubree Muethel-2024
Maurice Wilkins-2013
Gucci Fan-2015
Neehal Tumma-2019
Ann-Katrin Kieninger, Germany-2015
Lara Behrman, Germany-2017
Sebastian Myllek, Germany-2017
Nik Kiel, Germany-2019
Marius Karbach, Germany-2020
Elisa Klienfeld, Germany-2021
Samy Mechrouki, Germany-2022
Antoine Glorieux, Belgium-2023