Congratulations to Emily, who successfully defended her MS thesis titled “Investigating Physiological Diverence And Protein-Protein Interactions Within The Phosphate Starvation Response Of Budding Yeasts”.

Emily first joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher in 2020. She demonstrated herself to be a commited, capable and incredibly reliable researcher. She stayed on in the lab after graduation as a research assistant, then as lab manager. In 2024, she joined the Integrated Biology Graduate Program in our department as a MS student. This allowed her to take an independently initiated project to fruition: in her thesis research, she investigated how divergent yeast species differed in their polyphosphate storage and consumption and how that impacted these organisms’ ability to grow during phosphate limiting conditions.

Congratulations again Emily! More pics!