This past Tuesday, 11/13, Siavash Riazi presented his defense for a PhD in BCB entitled “Mathematical modeling and analysis of gene expression to understand phenotypic heterogeneity and the response of Methylobacterium extorquens to formaldehyde toxicity.” His work was co-advised by Chris Remien (Mathematics) and me, and represents his first PhD student, and my first to finish here at Idaho. Many thanks to committee members, Holly Wichman, Steve Krone, and Craig Miller. And most of all congrats to Dr. Riazi!