David Hogan received his Doctorate in 2016 from the Department of Environmental Science in the
University of Arizona’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He is an assistant research scientist in
the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory of Dr. Raina Maier. His research interests focus on the use
of biosurfactants (microbially produced surfactants or “soaps”) to develop remediation technologies for
metal contamination in water.


Sarah Lester is a senior at the University of Arizona with a major in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a minor in Biochemistry. She...
This week we are talking with Jennifer Cubeta. Jennifer is a University of Arizona and UBRP alumna who graduated from UA in 2000 with...
Hello! My name is David Jurkowitz and I am a junior studying biochemistry and Hebrew. I work in the Wheeler lab, which applies computational...