BIO
Kevin Stindt joined the UW-Stevens Point Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 2024. As a postdoctoral researcher at the McClean Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he studied microbial interactions, interdomain conjugative transfer of DNA, optogenetics, and spatial patterning of populations. He was a student instructor with the WISCIENCE Service Fellows program as well as a teaching assistant at UW-Madison. View CV
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Prokaryotic and eukaryotic molecular biology
- Dynamic cell systems ODE modeling
- Genetic engineering
- Fluorescence microscopy
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Stindt, K. R. & McClean, M. (2024). “Tuning interdomain conjugation to enable in situ population modification in yeasts.” mSystems 9: e00050-24.
Tuning Interdomain Conjugation Toward in situ Population Modification in Yeast” Talk & Poster, International Conference on Microbiome Engineering, Berkeley, CA (2023)
Stindt, K. R., Morales, N. M., & McClean, M. (2022). “Give and Take in the Exometabolome.” Nature Microbiology, Apr 7(4): 484-485.
Optimizing Transkingdom Conjugation” Talk, Biophysics Colloquium, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2021)
Lauterjung, K. R., Morales, N. M., & McClean, M. (2020). “Secrete to Beat the Heat.” Nature Microbiology, Jul 5(7): 883-884.
OUTREACH
- Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, science education volunteer (2017-present)
- WI Science Festival and Saturday Science event outreach
LAST BOOK READ
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
BEST ADVICE
1) Learn to love the gray areas
2) Keep in your personal orbit folks who are ahead of you (to inspire), folks that are alongside you (to commiserate), and folks who are behind you (to remind you how far you’ve come, and to pay it forward)
FAVORITE QUOTE
Lazarus laughed at a thief stealing a pot and said, “the clay steals the clay.”
FUN FACT
When he was growing up, he wanted to be neurosurgeon and/or a punk musician!