Jennifer (Mattaliano) Fischer completed her M.S. degree in the summer of 2000. The title of her thesis is "Characterization of amino acid auxotrophs of the plant pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis:Evidence for a methionine-dependent methylation during mating." Jen presented some of her work at the 1999 meeting of the American Cell Biology Society in Washington, and she gave a talk about the rest of it at the 2000 meeting of the Mycological Society of America in Burlington VT. You can see some of her slides here. Much of Jen's work was published in Fungal Genetics in Biology in October, 2001.  While at SJU, Jen was funded by the Graduate school, by the NSF, and by a travel grant from the Mycological Society of America. She is now in a Ph.D. program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.