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Click alumni names on this link and in the alumni links below to read their stories.
Graduate Students
Claire Elbon, OSE-EAS PhD Candidate (2020-present)
BSc, Microbiology, U Tennessee Knoxville, 2020
Interview here
Research: Microbiology of coupled methane and nitrogen cycling in extreme environment
Awards: Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship; 2020, 2nd Place Best Talk, SBS; 2022 3rd Place Best Talk; 2022 NSF GRFP; GT EAS Graduate Student Service Award, 2022
Leilani Warters, EAS MS Student (2022-present)
BSc, Environmental Science, Claflin University, 2022
Research: Rare earth element uptake kinetics in bacteria
Anais Gentilhomme, OSE PhD Student (2024-present)
MSc, U Alaska Fairbanks, Biological Oceanography, 2020; BSc, U Washington, Oceanography/International Studies, 2017
Undergraduate Students
PhD alumni
Dr. Rebecca Guth-Metzler
PhD, Biochemistry, 2023
coadvised with Loren Williams
Dissertation: “RNA and Metals as a Window onto Ancient Biochemistry”
Awards: 2019, First Place, GT Carbon Reduction Challenge; 2020, 1st place Best Poster, SBS; 2021-2022, GT Astrobiology Fellow
ExplOrigins interview here
Current: Assistant Professor, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
Dr. Abigail Johnson
PhD, Ocean Science & Engineering, 2022
Dissertation: “Deep Biosphere Microbial Protein Interactions with Clathrates”
Awards: PEO Scholar, 2021-2022, OSE Fellow, 2018-2019, GT EAS Glen Cass Award, 2021, 1st place Best Talk, SBS, 2020 & 2021; 1st Place Best Poster, 2022 Astrobiology Science Conference
Current: Postdoc, University of Georgia
Dr. Amanda Cavazos
PhD, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 2020
Dissertation: “Interactions between reactive nitrogen and manganese: implications for marine nitrous oxide cycling“
Awards: 2014 Georgia Tech President’s Fellow; 2014 Georgia Tech Goizueta Fellow; 2015 NSF GRFP Fellow; 2016 2nd Place Best Talk, SBS; 2017 & 2018 1st Place Best Talk, EAS Graduate Student Symposia; 2018 3rd Place Best Talk, SBS; 2018 GSA Research Grant; 2019 1st Place Best Talk, SBS; 2019 GT EAS Bradshaw Instrumentation Award
Current: Lecturer, U Texas Rio Grande Valley
Dr. Marcus Bray
PhD, Biological Sciences, 2019
Dissertation: “Iron as an Integral Constituent of Ancient Metabolism and Biochemistry”
Awards: 2017 2nd Place Best Poster, Astrobiology Science Conference; 2019 3rd Place, Suddath Memorial Award
Current: Postdoc, Microbial Ecology, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado
Undergraduate, REU, and postdoc alumni