(summer 2012)
Ben was our NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) student for the summer of of 2011.
He came from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Ben carried out research to clone the squalene epoxidase gene from the B race of B. braunii.
Currently (as of 03.28.2018), Ben is a graduate student in the lab of Margy Glasner in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics at Texas A&M University .