Kaitlin Petrella began working in the Ustilago lab during the fall of her junior year (2001) as a volunteer, and she signed up to do research for credit in the spring of 2002.  Katilin is becoming our expert on the "side-by-side" assay, used to study mating filament formation in wild-type and mutant strains.  She is currently analyzing mating behavior in several temperature-sensitive strains.