Carlos Carré Jr. started as a volunteer in the spring of 2000, he worked full time as an undergraduate.  for the summers of 2000, 2001, and 2002.  He has worked with generating and characterizing nutritional mutants of U. maydis. Carlos decided to stay in the lab for graduate work, and he was a GK12 Fellow from 2002-2004. He used a variety of microscopic methods, including TEM, to characterize appressorium formation in U. maydis.  Carlos also worked out methods for making leaf replicas in order to induce infection structures in vitro.  He presently is working on Long Island.