Dr. Erica Shand (née Schwotzer) joined the Brow lab in 2016 as an NSF Graduate Research fellow and took over the IMD2 gene expression project. In collaboration with Megan McClean’s lab she optimized our live-cell, quantitative microscopy platform and collected extensive data on changes in Imd2 levels in response to small molecule inducers and repressors in a 2-D model of yeast colony growth. Erica is currently exploring career options.