Theresa E. Rogers (M.S. 2005) earned her M.S. in microbiology in Dr. Joy Doran-Peterson’s lab where she studied cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic enzyme activity from the hindgut microbial community of the aquatic crane fly, Tipula abdominalis. She further examined this microbial population through culture-dependent and independent techniques including isolation and characterization, metagenomic library construction, and phylogenetic analysis via 16S rRNA sequences. In addition, she isolated and described a novel genus within the Microbacteriaceae family. Currently, she is working on her doctorate in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Ibba at the Ohio State University investigating the role of a pseudo-tRNA that modulates antibiotic resistance in the common food pathogen, Bacillus cereus. She is preparing to graduate within the next year and plans to delve back into microbial communities of gut systems for her postdoctoral studies.