From the left: Paul Sykes, Jeff Temple, Stephanie Misquitta, Dr. Bateman, Rachell Booth
Graduate Student |
Degree |
|---|---|
| Inseok Song | Ph.D. December 1993 |
| Joan M. Weatherford | Ph.D. December 1994 |
| Wenying Wang | M.S. August 1995 |
| Norma Phillips | M.S. December 1996 |
| Stephanie "Jan" Watson | M.S. August 1997 |
| Sandra West | M.S. May 1998 |
| Jeffrey Temple | Ph.D. December 1999 |
| Deborah Booth | Ph.D. (Science Education) August 2001 |
| Rachell Booth | Ph.D. December 2001 |
| Stephanie Misquitta | Ph.D. December 2002 |
| Jana Jenkins Causey | M.S. May 2006 |
| Glenn Dale | Ph.D. (Science Education) December 2006 |
| Ahmad Shatila | Ph.D. (Science Education) May 2007 |
| Amanda Thigpen Parker | Ph.D. August 2008 |
| Danielle Landry | current student |
Inseok Song is a professor in the Department of Life Science at the University of Seoul in Seoul, Korea.His email address is issong@uos.ac.kr .
Joan McCoy Weatherford is a biology instructor at Jones County Junior College. Her email address is joan.messer@jcjc.edu .
Wenying Wang was a technician at several universities before I lost track of her.
Norma Phillips lives near Jackson, Mississippi. Her email address is gean_phillips@att.net .
Jan Watson was in Tupelo last I heard, which has been some time.
Sandy West works at the USDA research station in Stoneville, MS. She says: "My family and I still live in Greenville, MS. I am currently doing research work at the Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center for the USDA – Agricultural Research Service. The department I am a part of is called the Southern Insect Management Unit. At the moment, my lab is involved monitoring Bt resistance levels of a variety of crop insects including tarnished plant bug, sugar cane borer and fall army worm. We have just started working on a transgenic experiment which raises the tolerance level of a certain beneficial crop insect to pesticides which are regularly sprayed in fields. My daughter is two years old now and constantly amazes my husband and I with how much she understand of the world around her. She is the light of our lives and I honestly don’t know how we ever lived without her. I sincerely hope everyone from the old Bateman lab has a blessed 2010!" Her email address is Sandy.West@ars.usda.gov .
Jeff Temple is an associate professor at Southeastern Louisiana University. His website is http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/jtemple/
Debbie Booth is an instructor in the USM Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry where she directs the undergraduate licensure program. Her email address is deborah.booth@usm.edu .
Rachell Booth is an associate professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, Tx. Her website is http://www.txstate.edu/chemistry/people/faculty/rbooth.html . Her family is here.
Stephanie Misquitta is an assistant manager for a biotechnology company in India. Her email address is stephaniemisquitta@yahoo.com .
Jana Jenkins Causey is a biology instructor at Pearl River Community College in Hattiesburg. Her email address is jcausey@prcc.edu .
Glenn Dale is a chemistry instructor at Pearl River Community College in Poplarville. His email address is gdale@prcc.edu .
Ahmad Shatila is head of the education department at Global University in Lebanon. His email address is ahmadshatila@hotmail.com .
Mandi Thigpen Parker is a biology instructor at Pearl River Community College in Hattiesburg. Her email address is aparker@prcc.edu .
A paragraph from Paul Sykes: Currently, I am completing a neurology residency at the University of Alabama--Birmingham, after having graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine (Ph.D., Neuroscience, 2004, and M.D., 2005). We now have 3 kids (Felix, age 6 who finishes kindergarten tomorrow; Lily, age 2.5, and Clara age 1), and Gini is staying home right now while the kids are young (she had been teaching Chemistry while we were in Virginia during medical school). Attached is the most recent family photo (admittedly from August 2007...) I am in the process of looking for a job (I still have 13 months of residency to go), and we are planning to stay in Birmingham for at least the next several years after residency. See a picture.
A paragraph from Kathy Burns: I finished the M.D., Ph.D. program at Baylor in 2004. My Ph.D. was in genetics in a transgenic mouse lab where I studied modifiers of ovarian tumor development and early acting maternal effect genes. (You can PubMed me Burns, KH with my thesis advisor, Matzuk, MM.) I then moved to Maryland to Johns Hopkins to do a clinical pathology residency. I was chief resident here last year and am now a fellow in hematopathology. Our clinical service is mostly neoplastic in focus - using genetics, flow cytometry and microscopy to diagnose leukemias, lymphomas, and related things. Pathology is great for a physician-scientist in that I've been able to do a bit of post-doctoral research at the same time as this clinical training. I am studying transposable DNA elements in mice and people with Jef Boeke and Curt Civin, and while my interests stemmed from known transposon activity in the germline/early embryos, I am most actively exploring how their instability may contribute to genomic insults during development of malignancies in people. I am excited to tell you that I have a couple of 'start your independent scientific life'-type grants and will be staying on as faculty at Hopkins with my own (closet-sized) lab starting in July!
Personal life: I married an M.D., Ph.D. classmate and now neurologist at Hopkins, Michael Levy. He's studying neuroimmunology, wraps up residency this June and will stay to do a post-doc at Hopkins. Alex and my mom are still in Louisiana, and I try to get back as much as possible. Alex is working for a law firm in New Orleans after getting his J.D. at LSU Baton Rouge last spring. Thankfully, our house survived Katrina with < a few inches flooding and many trees down that somehow mostly missed the house. Kathy and baby are here.
(Note: Paul, Kathy, and Harn recently spoke at our 50th anniversary medical symposium. See their picture here and other symposium info on the department site.
Michael "Mike" Golobov is a scientist at Amano Enzyme USA outside Chicago.His email address is michael.gololobov@amanoenzymeusa.com .
A paragraph from Cherng-zee "Thomas" Chuang: "I have been transferred to University Hospital, LSU Health Sciences Center since last April (2009). My function is to develop new methods of LC/MS/MS in Clinical Toxicology Lab. Attached is my family picture. Wanda, Luke (right), John, and 15 year-old dog, Poggi." His email address is chuang413@yahoo.com .
A paragraph from Thad Sharp: After 5 years at Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. Pleasanton, Ca. After Tons on research and trying to safe millions of life's only to have many life changing assays shot down because it was not big enough market to make any money. I deicided to try out Pharma. So now I am with another Swiss company Novartis Pharma. Unfortunately it is in New Jersey. Now I am on the drug side. It is good. I work in Biomarker Development. I work mostly with clinical trails. We try to get in at Phase 1, that some time does not happy. We try to see if drugs have efficacy and check to see how safe they are. If we find anything we collaborate with are Diagnostic company that is Chiron. It fun because there is always new drugs. I think I know every pathway possible.
A paragraph from Archna Vajpayee: I am in Houston now. I did my residency here at St. Joseph Hospital. I am now in private practice as a family medicine doctor. I am with one other internist and am the outpatient medical director of our practice. I got married 3 years ago. My husband, Sumeet, is a Houston native. He is an eye surgeon. We don't have any kids yet but, hopefully soon.