Group Alumni

Abigail Williams

Ohio 5-OSU Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Trainee (2024)

B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Expected 2026), The College of Wooster

Abigail grew up in Canton, Ohio. She is currently a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major at the College of Wooster. Besides research, Abigail enjoys playing tennis, hiking, and swimming. In the past, she has done plant microbiology research characterizing the flax soil microbiome. She joined the Wesener Lab in the Summer of 2024 as a part of the Ohio 5-OSU Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program. 

Lawrence Mazzoni 

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2023)

B.S. Biology (Honors), The Ohio State University (Dec. 2023)

Current position: Phlebotomy technician, Ohio Heath

Recipient of OSU Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP) Fellowship (Summer of 2023) 

Recipient of OSU Undergraduate Research Scholarship (Fall 2024)

Presented Designing an ideal medium to study bacterial polysaccharide crossfeeding in the human gut microbiota at the Autumn Undergraduate Research Festival.