Kenneth Sparks

Masters Student 2016-2019


As an undergraduate, Kenny worked with Dr. Emily Lescak and Ryan Lucas to develop stickleback artificial microbial communities based on antimicrobial resistant phenotypes to determine how microbial communities differ in response to antimicrobial challenge when exposed to antibiotics in vitro vs in vivo. Kenny earned an Undergraduate Research Scholarship through the UAA Honors College, and a Summer 2017 Alaska INBRE Undergraduate Research Assistantship. He was a Master’s student in Dr. Kat’s lab for a year before transferring to Dr. Jung’s lab to study the affects of circadian rhythms on host physiology.

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