Kelly (Cordisco) Talley '96  worked for several semesters and two summers, in the Ustilago lab.  Most of her work involved developing methods to efficiently inoculate ears of corn.  She also did some microscopy to follow how fungal filaments enter the corn silks.   She presented results of her research at NCUR in 1996, and also at the local Sigma Xi Symposium.  In addition to the summer funding from the HHMI, Kelly received a $1200 grant from the Microscopy Society of America to help pay for equipment to do freeze substitution of infected corn silks.  The results of Kelly's work, along with the followup studies done by another student, were published in the Canadian Journal of Botany. (see abstract). After a stint teaching high school biology, Kelly took a job with Covance Clinical Development Services in Princeton.  She is currently with Beardsworth Consulting Group working in Oncology Clinical Trial Management, and in March 2001 she got married and changed her name!