Ashley Smithwick, , Ph.D. August 1998 - June 2003, Ph.D. received 19 June 2003 from the Marine Biomedicine & Environmental Science program, MUSC  (Undergraduate degree:  Duke University).  Dissertation Title:  Effect of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Biotransformation Processes on Immunological Responses in Murine Splenocytes

Smithwick, A., A. Smith, J. F. Quensen, III, A. Stack, L. London, and P.J. Morris.  2002.  Inhibition of LPS-induced splenocyte proliferation and antibody secretion by ortho-substituted polychlorinated biphenyl congeners.  Toxicology 188/2-3:319-333.

Tanya Khijniak, Ph.D., Jan 1999 - Dec 2000, postdoctoral fellow, Microbiology & Immunology Dept., MUSC, 

Roberto Frontera-Suau, Ph.D. -  Ph.D. received 7 April 2000 from the Microbiology & Immunology Dept., currently a NIH Spire Postdoctoral Fellow in Research & Education at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.  Pictured here with Marissa Sprank, a NSF-REU undergraduate in the laboratory during the Summer of 2000.

Jeff Retzke, MS - M.S. degree received on 27 July 2001 in the Master's in Environmental Sciences program, MUSC/University of Charleston  (Undergraduate degree:  University of Alabama).  Currently employed as a Staff Environmental Scientist by the URS/Dames and Moore Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dan Bost, Ph.D. - Ph.D. received on 20 July 2001 from the Microbiology & Immunology Dept. (Undergraduate degree:  Clemson University), currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Jerry Kukor at Rutgers University.