Biography Advisor: Laura Knoll Traineeship Years: 2017-2018 Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite which infects roughly one third of the global human population. T. gondii infection alters multiple aspects of its host at a cellular and organismal level, including changes to metabolism. By studying the mechanisms T. gondii uses to remodel its host for …
Biography Research Focus: Genetic regulation of secondary metabolism in fungi
Biography Research Focus: E. coli chemotaxis
Biography Research Focus: T4SS proteins that interact with peptidoglycan, and she used tools developed in that research to study a conserved gonoccal peptidoglycanase.
Biography Research Focus: My research in the Klein lab focused on host immune responses to the pathogenic fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis.
Biography Research Focus: Focused on the relaxase involved in chromosomal DNA secretion by the Neisseria gonorrhoeae type IV secretion system