It's been a while since our last lab update - so here's some highlights to catch up!
First and foremost, congratulations to Dr. Tracy Kuper and Dr. Rhea Braun on their successful Ph.D. defenses!
Dr. Kuper defended her dissertation, Multiscale approaches linking transport and metabolism guide biofilm intervention strategies, on April 12th, 2024. She now works as a Computational Biologist for United Therapeutics in Silver Spring, MD.
Dr. Braun defended her dissertation, Developing agent-based models for bacterial chemotaxis with sonification-aided data collection, on July 9, 2024. She now works as a Pharmaceutical Development Engineer for Bristol Myers Squibb in Princeton, NJ.
We would like to also welcome new graduate students Sam Doak (B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2023), Priyanka Mathur (B.S. Chemical & Life Sciences Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2024), and Gavin Estrella (B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia, 2024), as well as undergraduates Chelsey Ojeda-San Juan (Civil Engineering, third-year) and Madhuri Sosale (Biomedical Engineering, second-year) to the Ford Group!