Dr. Bonnie Jaskowski Huge, a research scientist at the University of Notre Dame, visited our senior seminar class (CHEM-C 301) this semester. She is well-known to our faculty because she earned her undergraduate degree (B.S. Chemistry) from our department before moving to Notre Dame to earn her doctoral degree. Each student in this class must write a report and give an oral presentation, so Dr. Huge gave a presentation to serve as an example. Her talk was titled "Electrophoretic Fractionation of Microbiota prior to Metagenomic Sequencing" and described how her team uses the different surface charge on different types of pathogens to separate types of pathogens so that genome sequencing on a microbial population is simplified by making separate runs on samples of single species rather than a single run on a sample of multiple species. We are looking forward to a lot of great talks from the students later this semester. Thanks, Dr. Huge, for coming to help our students!
