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Alix (Alexandra) Purdy, Associate Professor of Biology

BS  The College of William and Mary, biology and chemistry, honors thesis in the lab of Margaret Saha
PhD  Marine biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, in the lab of Douglas Bartlett
Postdoc fellowship  Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in the lab of Paula Watnick
Current lab members
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Atekana Nyamaa '22 is completing her honors thesis in BCBP on downstream targets of CrbS and CrbR.
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Talia Bloxham '22 joined the lab as a senior honors thesis student in Biology and is working on signal initiation in CrbS.
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Leslie Lopez '23 joined the lab remotely in the fall of 2020, and is now able to work in person.  She's starting on constructing deletion mutants in ​Vibrio cholerae.
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Sarah Quiros '23 is assisting with Drosophila ​projects.
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Yeju Kang '23 is shadowing in the lab and learning about different protocols.
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Eva Nelson '22 joined the lab during the summer after her first year, and now, as a senior, she is completing her honors thesis in Biology on signaling in CrbS. 
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Skyler Sung '23 joined the lab in the fall of 2020, and is working on several Vibrio fischeri ​projects.
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Gavi Forman '22 joined the lab in the fall of 2021, and is helping with making deletion mutants in ​Vibrio cholerae.
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Kenny Chen '21 is assisting with the bioinformatics component of the RNASeq project.
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Manya Vivek joins us as a research assistant from UMass-Amherst to assist with various projects in the lab.
Check out what our Lab alumni are up to after Amherst!
Honorary Members of the Lab
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Maureen Manning
Maureen is the behind-the-scenes coordinator of all things biosafety, Drosophila, and lab set up.