Dr. Peter Kourtev's lab - former and current students and their work Current students Michelle Weaver: Shelly started working with chromium resistant bacteria. Then she switched to pitcher plants and the bacterial community in their pitchers. She took a break from the lab while she was deciding what to do and eventually re-joined as a graduate student. She is working on describing the microbial community on the skin of two salamander species in MI. Elizabeth Czerwinski: Liz did her honors thesis project in my lab. She worked on the effect of purple loosestrife on microbial communities in the soil. Liz took a break after she graduated and is now coming back (Fall 2010) as a graduate student. She will take over the autumn olive project. Codi Surowiec: Codi started in the lab this summer (2008). She won the Tom and Nancy Storch Research Award which supported her through summer 2008. She is very experienced in all the methods that we use in our lab. She has worked on most of the projects in the lab but has been primarily responsible for the characterization of bacterial communities in deer guts. Joe Krieger: Joe has been working for a while on the diversity of bacteria, archaea and fungi in the pitchers of the northern pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Joe has been accepted in the Ph.D. program at Auburn University. He will be starting there in the fall 2010 and will work with coral reefs. Chensheng "Adam" Zhu: Adam has been a graduate student in the lab fro two years now. He has worked on the deer gut project. Adam will be defending soon and leaving for New Jersey where he will start in the Microbiology program (Ph.D.) at Rutgers University. Former students Jaime Zlamal: Jaime started in the summer of 2007 working on the effects of the invasive plant Autumn olive on the bacterial community structure and function in soil. She did most of the work on the autumn olive project. She has presented her results at several national conferences. She was also awarded an ASM-URF summer fellowship. Jaime will be starting in the Ph.D. program at the University of California San Diego in the fall of 2010. Joe Bailey: Joe started in the lab during spring 2008. He worked with Jaime on the effects of the invasive plant autumn olive on the bacterial community structure and function in soil. Ann Laszczyk: Ann started in the lab during spring 2008. She helped with the autumn olive an deer gut microbial diversity projects. James Donahue: James worked on my FRCE project, entitled "Nitrate reduction by Bacillus sp. A20 in the presence of Cr(VI)."
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