Joseph Curry '00 began doing U. maydis research in the summer of 1998, he worked a total of three summers. Joe was involved in several projects, including the mutant characterization and sequencing a gene that complements an interesting temperature sensitive mutation.   Joe and Kevin Dougherty presented a poster at the Fungal Genetics Conference in the spring of 1999.  Joe received a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, awarded to undergraduate students interested in research, for his senior year at SJU.  Joe just finished his first year of medical school at Georgetown, and this summer he's doing some research in a lab that focuses on malaria.