BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

      Gregory D. Havemann was born and raised in Margate, Florida. He attended

Margate Elementary and was accepted to the gifted program in third grade at which time he also took up playing the violin. At Margate Middle School he continued playing the violin and participated in the University of Central Florida Honors Orchestra in the summer of 1987. After middle school he attended the International Baccalaureate program at Boyd H. Anderson where he competed in cross-country. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology (with honors, along with a minor in chemistry) from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in mid-1997. While there he conducted undergraduate research in the laboratory of Dr. Samuel Farrah studying the selective adhesion of bacteria to the minerals, dolomite and apatite. Also during his undergraduate studies, he held a part-time job under Dr. Edward Hoffman maintaining algae cultures and oysters for invertebrate immunology studies. Upon graduation, he began graduate studies at the University of Florida in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science. There, under the mentoring of Dr. Thomas Bobik, he studied B12-dependent metabolism in Salmonella enterica. He focused his research on organelles associated with the B12-dependent degradation of 1,2-propanediol. He plans to continue his academic study as a postdoctoral research fellow.