Garrett Reynolds

I graduated from East Tennessee State University with a B.S. in Microbiology and a B.S. in Chemistry in 2020. I returned to ETSU for a M.S. in Biological Sciences in Microbiology where I studied the bacterial second messenger cyclic di-GMP regulates motility, biofilm formation, and desiccation tolerance in Acinetobacter baumannii. I moved to Nashville after my master’s degree to work in Dr. Roland Stein’s laboratory as a research assistant where I worked on two transcription factors, MAFA and MAFB, and experimentally validated AlphaFold2 predictions in common mutations of these proteins. Now in the Zaganjor lab, I am studying the role of IMPDH2 in macrophage function and physiology.