Jennifer Johnson finished her B.S.
in Biology in 1999. She worked on several projects in the Ustilago
lab. She started out by working with Charles Roche and Matt Warner on a
project to make UV mutants that don't mate properly, and her final work
involved molecular complementation and characterization of a temperature
sensitive mutant. She spent a month in the Kahmann lab in Munich, learning
molecular techniques to bring back to the SJU lab. Her work was funded
by the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute Summer Research grant to
the Biology Department, by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and by a National
Science Foundation grant to Drs. Snetselaar and McCann. Jennifer started
a combined M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall
of 1999.