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Ece Karatan
karatane@appstate.edu

Appalachian State University
Department of Biology
Rankin Science North
319 (Office), 303 (Lab)
828-262-6742

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Current Projects

• Regulation of Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation by norspermidine, NspS, and MbaA

• Polyamine transport in Vibrio cholerae

• Effect of vibriobactin synthesis and transport on Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation

Graduate students

• Blake Sanders

• Richard Sobe

• Will Brennan

• Libby Villa

Undergraduate Students

• Alex Mozina

• Marybeth Burriss

Lab Manager

• Stormtrooper

Past Members of the Lab (and their whereabouts)

Graduate students

• Randy Cockerell (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Summer 2013)

• Tony Angotti (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Summer 2013)

  Currently, Account Executive at Qorpak

• Brad Goforth (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Summer 2012)

Currently: post-baccalaueate program in biomedical sciences at Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

• Sam Pendergraft (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Summer 2012)

Currently: PhD student in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at Wake Forest University

• Alex Rutkovsky (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Summer 2012)

Currently: PhD student in Biomedical Sciences at Medical University of South Carolina

• Becca Cooper (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration-Summer 2010)

Currently: PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, in the lab of Dr. Thomas DiChristina

• Krissy Johnson (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Summer 2009)

Currently: Adjunct Instructor, Appalachian State University, Department of Biology

• Lindsay Porter (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Summer 2009)

• Zach Parker (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Summer 2009)

Currently: PhD student at Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, in the lab of Dr. David Leib

• Marcus McGinnis (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Spring 2009)

Currently: Research Technician at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, in the lab of Dr. Terresa Tarrant.

• Josiah Zayner (MS in Biology-Cell and Molecular Biology concentration- Spring 2008)

Currently: PhD student at University of Chicago in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics in the lab of Dr. Tobin Sosnick. http://sosnick.uchicago.edu/people/jz.html

• Jonathan Pitchford (MS in Biology Fall 2007)

PhD: October 2012, West Virginia University, Forestry and Natural Resources Currently: Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (http://www.imms.org/research.php)

Undergraduate students

• Adana Campbell (BS in Biology Spring 2014)

• Christina Daly (co-supervised with Ted Zerucha) (BS in Biology Sprin 2013)

• Jessie Wozniak (BS in Spring 2013)

• Jacob Hoyle (BS in Biology Spring 2013)

• Allison Gardzalla (BS in Biology December 2012)

• Nick Walter (BS in Biology with Honors Spring 2011)

• Alex Rutkovsky (BS in Chemistry Spring 2010)

• Sam Pendergraft (BS in Biology with University Honors Spring 2010)

• Jesse Marino (BS in Chemistry Fall 2007)

• Margaret Adams (BS in Biology Spring 2008)

• Alex James (BS in Biology Spring 2007)

• Steven Whitt (BS in Biology Spring 2007)