FELLOWS
Fellowship Programs Prepare for Incoming Fellows
and Celebrate Successes of Past Fellows
by Heather Roney, MA, manager, Fellowship Programs
The Antimicrobial Resistance (AR)
Laboratory Fellowship is completing
recruitment for the 2019 cohort. Fellows
will be placed in the regional laboratories
of the AR Lab Network, the National TB
Center and up to three state public health
laboratories. Fellows will be expected to
start in summer 2019.
2017 AR Fellows Kelsey Florek and
Marisabel Etter were offered and
accepted full-time positions at their host
laboratories. Dr. Florek was hired as a
bioinformatician at the Wisconsin State
Laboratory of Hygiene, building on the
great work she completed during her
fellowship to strengthen sequencing
capability and capacity. Dr. Etter will work
as a public health microbiologist in the
Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Herpes
Viruses section at the Microbial Diseases
Laboratory of the California Department
of Public Health, where she will continue
to advance her knowledge of public
health laboratory science in pursuit of a
leadership position within public health.
The Bioinformatics Fellowship has
completed recruitment for the 2019
cohort. Selected fellows will be matched
with state and local public health
laboratories and the CDC.
2018 Bioinformatics Fellow Curtis Kapsak
accepted a position at a consulting firm
working as a bioinformatician in the CDC
Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch. His
fellowship at the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment prepared
him for this position where he will
continue to work in public health. n
Former APHL fellows were a huge presence as both students
and faculty at the January AMD Academy Intermediate
Bioinformatics Training for microbiologists. (From l-r:) former
Bioinformatics Fellows Logan Fink, Kevin Libuit and Sean
Wang; former Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory
Fellow Jade Mowry; and former AR Fellows Victoria Stone and
Jennifer Dale
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