Kyle Justin Wayne, PhD - 2001

Kyle was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale School of Medicine, he is the recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Young Alumnus award. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from Texas A&M University and then received a full fellowship to Indiana University where he obtained a PhD in Microbiology. Wayne has conducted research on Salmonella under world-renowned bacterial geneticist, Dr. Eduardo Groisman.  He has also published seven scientific papers on the physiology and biochemistry of bacterial pathogens.