Kerri Coon
Associate Professor
I obtained a B.Sc. in Biology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, and a Ph.D. in Entomology at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. I did my Ph.D. training with Dr. Michael Strand studying the microbial regulation of molting in mosquitoes, and subsequently worked on insect gut microbiota-immune system interactions in Dr. Nancy Moran’s laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. I joined the faculty in the Department of Entomology at UW-Madison in 2019 and transferred to the Department of Bacteriology in 2020. I can serve as the major advisor for graduate students from Microbiology, Entomology, and Genetics. I am also affiliated with the Biotechnology, Parasitology & Vector Biology, and Microbes in Health and Disease Training Programs at UW-Madison.
Office: 3552 Microbial Sciences Building
Phone: (608) 262-6919
email: kerri.coon@wisc.edu
Travis Worley
Ph.D. Student, Microbiology
I am broadly interested in the molecular genetics and physiology of host-microbe interactions. In the Coon lab, I study the vector biology of flies in the family Muscidae and the mechanisms underlying the ability of bacterial pathogens to colonize and persist in the fly gut.
Office: 3526 Microbial Sciences Building
email: tworley2@wisc.edu
Undergraduate Researchers
Hailey Sieren
(Microbiology)
Sawyer Dettlaff
(Microbiology)
Lab Alumni
Heidi McKee (MS Student)
Nolan Amon (PhD Student)
Yasmin Ali (Undergraduate Student)
Jelena Lee (Undergraduate Student)
Holly Nichols (PhD Student)
Julia Kettner (MS Student)
Robyn Patterson (Undergraduate Student)
Aldo Arellano (PhD Student)
Andrew Sommer (PhD Student)
Miguel Medina Muñoz (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Journey Prack (Undergraduate Student)
Jordan Petrick (Undergraduate Student)
Julia Kashuk (Undergraduate Student)
Jessica Lysne (Undergraduate Student; NIH PREP Scholar)
Sebastián Díaz (Visiting Scholar; Postdoctoral Researcher)
Jordan Carter (NSF REU Student)
Serena Zhao (PhD Student)
Alexandra Beckman (Undergraduate Student)
Mike LeClaire (Undergraduate Student)
Jake DeWitte (Undergraduate Student)
Tomi Akin-Olabiyi (NSF REU Student)
Daisy Chew (Undergraduate Student)
Molly Sneller (Undergraduate Student)
Lalita Arzumanyan (Undergraduate Student)