Elyse is currently a student at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. During her internship Klessig lab, Elyse worked under the supervision of her mentor post-doctoral associate Hong-Gu Kang. While at the BTI, Elyse undertook screening of CRT1 mutants and how they interfere with HRT-induced cell death in Arabidopsis. For this project, she learned DNA sequencing, mutant screening, and transient expression assays in tobacco.