On June 12, 2025, our grad student Jack Ord will defend his Master's thesis entitled "Dynamics of the IS1 Transposase InsAB' and its Effects on the Directed Mutations Mediated by IS1."          

On June 9, 2025, at 4pm our grad student Sofia Nicole Smith will defend her Master's thesis entitled "Investigating How Genomic Context and Regulatory Elements Impact IS1 Transposition within the Escherichia coli Genome." Abstract Insertion sequences (IS elements) are key drivers of bacterial genome plasticity, yet the regulation of their transposition remains poorly understood, even […]

At 2pm on March 15, 2024, our grad student Sophia Beliaev will defend her master's thesis entitled "Expansion of the Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS) with the Sar TMS10 Membrane Protein (S10MP) Family." The zoom link will be provided before the defense. Abstract Transport proteins are crucial to essential cellular processes. Databases such as the Transporter […]