Nicholas Bolz, a former undergraduate in the Simmons Lab, graduated with Honors in Microbiology and published his thesis as a first author paper in the Journal of Bacteriology. The paper, "Residues in the N-Terminal Domain of MutL Required for Mismatch Repair in Bacillus subtilis" was published in the October issue.

"Residues in the N-Terminal Domain of MutL Required for Mismatch Repair in Bacillus subtilis." Bolz NJ, Lenhart JS, Weindorf SC, Simmons LA. J Bacteriol. 2012 Oct;194(19):5361-7. Epub 2012 Jul 27. Read abstract.