Dillard, Joseph (Joe)
Joe Dillard, PhD, sometimes manages to break himself away from the computer long enough to do experiments in the lab. Recently, he purified peptidoglycan fragments from culture supernatants for a collaborative project on Vibrio fischeri. Last year he made gonococcal mutants with epitope-tagged versions of peptidoglycan degradation proteins AmiC and LtgC. Gonococci have an unusually-small set …