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Hwan Su Yoon:
Hwan Su completed 6 highly productive years in the lab and has moved to the Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences in West Boothbay Harbor in Maine where is now Senior Scientist. Hwan Su will continue to collaborate with the lab on several joint research projects. We look forward to keeping in touch with him and wish him a long successful career as an independent investigator.

Dawn Simon:
Dawn completed her PhD in Fall 2004. She is currently a post-doctoral scholar in the lab of Dr. Steven Zimmerly at the University of Calgary. She was recently awarded the Alberta Ingenuity Postdoctoral Fellowship to support independent research in autocatalytic group II intron evolution.

Peik Haugen:
Peik has returned to Tromsø, Norway after his successful post-doctoral stay in the lab. Reflecting his research achievements, Peik was recently appointed to the position of Associate Professor at the University of Tromsø and looks forward to a long and prosperous career.

Joe Runge:
Joe was the first combined MS (Biology with thesis) - Law degree holder at the University of Iowa and recently passed the patent bar exam. He plans to explore the world of interdisciplinary research in science and law. Good luck Joe!

Jeremiah Hackett:
Jeremiah completed his PhD in Genetics in Spring 2005 after a very successful graduate career. He was then awarded the prestigious CICOR Fellowship to pursue independent research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His mentor at WHOI is Dr. Don Anderson who is a specialist in the study of toxic dinoflagellates. Most recently, he was offered a faculty position at the University of Arizona which he will start in January 2007.

Stefanie Hartmann:
Stefanie completed her PhD in Spring 2001 and has retrained herself as a bioinformaticist (in Germany) and is currently a post-doc at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the lab of Dr. Todd J. Vision. Stefanie now is an expert in both plant and algal biology and database construction.

Yasmeen Khan:
After spending 4 years as an undergraduate assistant in the lab, we are proud to see Yasmeen pursuing a career in chiropractic medicine at Palmer College.