Former Lab Members

Dr. Tiedje has trained the following Graduate Students:

*Student*	- Year -	Doctoral/Post-doctoral Institution Positions Held
Tran Phuoc Duong	1973	Rector, University of Cantho, Viet Nam
Victor A. Reyes	1974	University of Minnesota Microbiologist, Niftal Center, University of Hawaii; private business, Hawaii, USA
Douglas E. Caldwell	1974	University of Wisconsin Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Richard F. Strayer	1977	Cornell University Research Scientist, NASA, Cape Kennedy, Florida, USA
S.F. Chou	1977	University of Illinois Research Scientist, Illinois Geological Survey, Illinois, USA
M. Scott Smith	1978	University of Kentucky, Lexington Dean of Agriculture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
William H. Caskey	1978	University of Georgia Vice President, Research, Southwest Missouri State University, Missouri, USA
Mary K. Firestone	1979	Chairperson and Professor, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Michael R.Betlach	1979	NRC Fellow, NASA, Ames Research Center Research Scientist, Synergen Corp., Boulder, Colorado, USA; Promega Corp., Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Linda L. McGahen	1981	Research Scientist, Stauffer Chem. Co., Mountain View, California, USA
Joseph A. Robinson	1982	Montana State University VMRD-Metabolism and Safety, Pfizer Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Alan J. Sexstone	1983	Assoc. Prof., University of West Virginia, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Daniel R. Shelton	1983	University of California-Riverside Asst. Scientist, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, USA; also lawyer in Washington, D.C. Area
David D. Myrold	1984	Professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Timothy G. Linkfield	1985	Battelle Laboratories Columbus Research Scientist, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Daryl F. Dwyer	1986	University of Geneva Switzerland Group leader, German Inst. for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, F.R.G.; Asst. Prof., Univ. of Minn.; Asst. Prof., University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Shan Ney Huang	1987	Director, Hualien District, Agricultural Improvement Station, Taiwan
Diann Jordan	1987	USDA Post-doctoral Fellow, Athens, Georgia, USA Assoc. Prof., University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA; Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Els Weeg-Aerssens	1987	Environ. Toxic., Proctor and Gamble, European Tech. Cntr., Brussels then Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Janet K. Jansson	1988	University of Stockholm Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Stockholm, Sweden; Prof., SLU Uppsala, Sweden; Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, USA
Mark S. Coyne	1989	University of California-Berkeley Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Agronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
William W. Mohn	1990	NRC Post-doctoral Fellowship, Ottawa, Canada; Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Rick W. Ye	1992	University of Illinois-Chicago Research Scientist, Dupont Corp. Res., Newark, Delaware, USA
Jong-Ok Ka	1994	Assoc. Prof., Seoul Nat'l University, Suwon, Korea
Jorge Santo Domingo	1993	DOE, Savannah River National Lab, South Carolina, USA Research Scientist, US EPA Research Laboratories, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Arturo Massol-Deya	1994	Assoc. Prof., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA
Albert N. Rhodes	1994	Professor & Major, USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA; Director, Environmental Engineering, Tyndall AFB, Florida, USA
Cathy McGowan	1995	Communication Technology Lab, Michigan State University Web design company
Marcos R. Fries	1995	Dept. Chair and Professor, University of Santa Maria, Brazil
Robert Sanford	1996	University of Washington Asst. Prof., Environmental Eng., University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Joanne Chee-Sanford	1996	University of Washington Research Scientist, USDA at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Klaus Nüsslein	1998	Asst. Prof., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Stella Asuming-Brempong	1999	Asst. Prof., University of Ghana
Baolin Sun	1999	Prof. and Head, Environ. Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Univ. of Science & Technology, China
Jorge Rodrigues	2000	CENA/USP, Piracicaba, Brazil Asst. Prof., University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA
Rebekah R. Helton	2000	Post Doctoral Researcher University of Delaware, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Newark, Delaware, USA
Sherry Dollhopf	2001	Florida State University Asst. Prof., Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Hector L. Ayala-del-Rio	2002	Astrobiology Center, Michigan State University; Asst. Prof., Universidad de Puerto Rico - Humacao, Puerto Rico, USA
Claribel Cruz-Garcia	2002	Department of Environ. Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
Stacy Umstatter	2003	Dupont Agric. Research, Delaware, USA
Benjamin Griffin	2003	NSF Fellowship at Univ. of Konstanz, Germany; then Univ. of Illionois, USA
Elica Moss	2004	Asst. Prof., Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Xiaoyun Qiu	2004	Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Harvard Medical School
Monica Ponder	2005	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Asst. Prof., Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Vincent Denef vdenef@umich.edu	2005	Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Kostas Konstantinidis	2005	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Asst. Prof., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Carlos Rodriguez-Minguela	2005	Asst. Prof., University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA
John Jacob Parnell	2006	Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA Microbial Ecologist, National Ecological Observatory Network
Joel Klappenbach	200?	Senior Research Biologist, Rosetta Inpharmatics, LLC, Seattle, Washington, USA
Debora Rodrigues debora.rodrigues@yale.edu	2007	Environmental Engineering Program Department of Chemical Engineering Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Peter Bergholz pwb49@cornell.edu	2007	Michigan State University Department of Crop and Soil Sciences Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Deborah Yoder-Himes Deborah_Yoder-Himes@hms.harvard.edu	2008	Michigan State University Division for Respiratory Diseases Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Jennifer Auchtung auchtun3@msu.edu	2009	Michigan State University
Yu Yang yangyu3@msu.edu	2009	Michigan State University
Brian Campbell campb383@msu.edu	2009	Michigan State University
Christina Harzman harzmanc@msu.edu	2009	Michigan State University
Woo Jun Sul woojunsul@gmail.com	2010	MSU / Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole