New Lab Members

JULY 2, 2021

Excited to welcome Taylor Garrison and Katelyn Sheneman as PhD candidates in the Lawrenz Lab!

Taylor joins the lab with an MS degree in biology from Union University and a BS in microbiology from the University of Tennessee. Her PhD dissertation project will focus on defining the impact of calprotectin-mediated metal limitation on Klebsiella pneumoniae virulence.

Katelyn comes to us from the University of Southern Indiana, where she earned a BS in biochemistry and pre-medicine. Her PhD dissertation project will focus on how Y. pestis manipulates the generation of extracellular vesicles during plague.