Rebecca Williams-Wagner

Becky Williams-Wagner earned her BS in Molecular Biology from Otterbein University, and a PhD in microbiology from The Ohio State University. During graduate school and as a post-doctoral researcher, she studied physiology and gene regulatory mechanisms of the soil bacterium, Bacillus subtilis, in an effort to understand microbial responses to stress. She mentored graduate and undergraduate students in the laboratory setting and was an Adjunct Faculty of chemistry and biology at Otterbein and Ohio Dominican Universities. At OSU, she was a founding member of the RNA Biology Student Organization and a recipient of University and Center for RNA Biology Fellowships.