Congratulations to Duah Alkam who successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Using genome-wide transposon sequencing (TnSeq) to identify osteomyelitis-critical Staphylococcus aureus genes” on January 28th. Duah was a student in the laboratories of Dr. Mark Smeltzer and Dr. David Ussery and is now working as in the UAMS Bioinformatics Shared Resource under the direction of Dr. Stephanie Byrum.