Andrea successfully defends his PhD thesis!

Introducing ...(drum roll)...Dr. Ameruoso who successfully defended his Ph.D.!!! Andrea joined the lab as our first official graduate student at the end of 2017. He pioneered the laboratories efforts to genetically program Streptomyces for natural product discovery. As a founding member of the lab, he has been instrumental in establishing the lab and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors​! 

As is tradition for newly minted graduate students at Rice, Andrea took part in a tie-cutting ceremony (bottom photo), the remains of which you will find pinned up in the valhalla bar at Rice.