Students
Beyond Reed
Thesis students from my lab have gone on to the following:
Graduate Programs
Emory University, University of California at Davis, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, University of California, San Francisco, Dartmouth College, Rockefeller University, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Stanford University
Medical Schools
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health, George Washington University School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, University of Arizona College of Medicine, The University of Oklahoma, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Biotechnology
MedImmune, Inc., Silver Lake Research Corporation, Biovest International, and Twist Biosciences
Law School
Santa Clara University, Duke University School of Law
Public Health
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
Veterinary Schools
Tufts University and Massey University
Pharma and Health Care
Pfizer and Verily
Awards
Madelyn Tarara
Best Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation at the Northwest Branch Meeting of the ASM, Portland, Oregon, Nov 10-11, 2023
Josie Bicknell ('24)
Reed Class of '21 Award
Eliotte Garling ('18)
NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2022
Jossef Osborn ('15)
The Reed President's Winter Fellowship to visit the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, 2014-2015
Rosie Lawrence-Pine ('11)
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2010-2011
Jeannette Tenthorey ('09)
NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2012
Anna Carmona ('06)
Best Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation at the Northwest Branch
Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Seattle, Washington,
March 10-12, 2006.
Alex Barron ('05)
Student Travel Award - ASM General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2005
Derek Galligan ('05)
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
Kristin Harper ('02)
Student Travel Award - ASM General Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2002
NSF Graduate Fellowship ('03) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellowship ('03)
Leslie Hoover ('01)
NIH Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellowship, Bethesda, Maryland, 2001-2003
Presentations
Tarara, M and Mellies, JL. Chemical Examination of the Degradation of Low-Density Polyethylene Plastic via a Consortium of Bacteria. Presented at NW ASM Branch Meeting, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, November 10-11, 2023.
Shingwekar, D and Mellies, JL. The Chemical Decomposition of PET Plastic for Enhanced Microbial Degradation. Presented at ANTEC 2023, Denver, CO, March 27-30, 2023.
Ditter, R, Edwards, S and Mellies, JL. Expression and Purification of Novel PETase EstB from Plastic Degrading Bacterial Consortium. Presented at ASM Microbe, Washington DC, June 9-13, 2022.
Lindner, J, Roberts, C, Sacksteder, R, and Mellies, J. Uncovering the Genetic Basis for Synergistic Bacterial Degradation of PET. Presented at the Northwest Branch Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Seattle, Washington, Nov 15-16, 2019.
Roberts, C, Léon Zayas, R, Swartz, N, and J. Mellies. Biodegradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) by Pseudomonasand Bacillus consortium. Presented at the Microbe Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, San Francisco, June 20-24, 2019.
Novy, B, Ellermann, M, Sperandio, V, and J Mellies. Cannabidiol (CBD) Downregulates Virulence Factors in EHEC O157:H7. Presented at the Microbe Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, San Francisco, June 20-24, 2019.
Garling, E, Cepko, L, Dinsdale, M, Bandy, L and J Mellies. Turning a New Phage: A Myoviridae Isolate as a Potential Therapeutic Against EAEC and EPEC. Presented at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 6-10, 2018.
Selected Senior Theses
Structural Prediction of MHETase NlhH in PET-degrading Pseudomonas Bacteria
By Henry Jacques, May 2024
From Bottles to Biodegradation: Investigating Crystal Polymorphism for Chemo- Microbial Plastic Degradation
By Deepika Shingwekar, May 2024
Enfolding Liveliness: Invoking Bacteriophage Therapy for More-Than-Human Kinships
By Harper Lethin, May 2024
It Always Rains but it Never Spores: Defining Sporulation Patterns in PET Degrading Bacterial Consortium
By Audrey Hinchliff, May 2023
Closing the Loop: TPA Recovery from a Plastic Degrading Bacterial Consortium
By Helen Laster, May 2023
Full-length 16S rRNA Sequencing Reveals Perturbations to Gut Microbiome Composition in Response to in vitro Treatment with Tamoxifen and 17β-Estradiol
Carli Newman, May 2023
Characterizing the Effect of CBD on Salmonella Pathogenicity
By Mila Trank-Greene, May 2022
Expression and Purification of Novel PETase EstB from Plastic Degrading Bacterial Consortium
By Riyaz Ditter, May 2022
Towards an Understanding of Bacteriophage Therapy: Bridging Biological and Anthropological Approaches
By Loralee Bandy, May 2020
Synergistic Biodegradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate by Pseudomonas and Bacillus
By Jamie Lindner, May 2020
Different Strains for Different Pains: Cannabidiol Attenuates Virulence in Attaching and Effacing Pathogens
By Maddox Zhang, May 2020
Computationally Analyzing the Effect of Cannabidiol on Enterohemorrhagic E. coli Using Transcriptomic Data
By Sol Taylor-Brill; co-advised with Anna Ritz
Biodegradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic by Pseudomonas and Bacillus Species Consortia
By Cameron Roberts, May 2019
Mellow Microbes: Cannabidiol Downregulates Pathogenesis in Type-Three Secretion System Pathogens
By Brandon Novy, May 2019
Phage against the disease: An in vitro and in vivo investigation of phage therapy against pathogenic Escherichia coli
By William Scott, May 2019
Turning a New Phage
By Eliotte Garling, May 2018
How I (fluorescently) quenched my thirst for Ler-ning
By Katie McPherson, May 2018
Plastic Pollution and Bacterial Solutions
By Morgan Vague, December 2018