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Recent Publications & Grant Support
Principal Investigator:
Mark
Forsyth Ph.D. 
Mark is
the
fearless leader of the lab. He rules with an iron fist and boldly goes
where no Microbiologist has gone before. He observes the sacred,
"Hawaiian
Shirt Friday", at least three days a week. He also has a fear of
shaving. As you can see by
his photo, he is much too fascinated with the PhotoBooth application on
his new MacBook
(learn
what's really
important to Mark here!)
Student Researchers
Katelyn
is a junior biology major who joined our lab in the fall of
2006. She is a member of Team Signal Transduction.
Katelyn is is trying to make mutations at the 3' end of a sensory
protein gene and introduce them into the Hp genome without using
antibiotic resistance. Although she tells people she wants to go
to medical school after graduation, rumor in the lab has it that she
going to put together a Reggae band and travel the Carribean!Kristin Davis
Kristin
is a junior in our
lab. She is trying to get a contraselections system for the
incorporation of markerless mutant alleles into the Hp genome. In
addition to her ambition to be a
pathologist, Kristin hopes to play professional ultimate frisbee after
college. Sophia Gayek
Sophia is a junior researcher
in the lab. She is involved in our two component signal
transduction research effort. Specifically, Sophia is trying to
determine the effects of returning a normal allele of a response
regulator to a strain in which the normal allele has been
mutated. Sophia is a Southeast regional champion
breakdancer!John Miller Jr.
John is a junior research fellow in
our
lab. John is involved in our studies of the possibility that H. pylori may exist as an
intracellular bacterium and how bacterial signal transduction may allow
for adaptation to an intracellular niche, if one exists. A note
to John's family: he has, in fact fallen in with the wrong crowd here
at college and we have the documentation!! Don't worry, we trying
to help him see the light!! (this photo is not really out of
focus. John just moves so fast, he's hard to photograph!!)Meet the rest of the lab!!