University of North Carolina
Genetics and Microbiology & Immunology
Assistant Dean of Graduate Education

Honors

Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences (1989-1993)NIH Research Career Development Award (1994-1999)Elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (2003)Board of Reviewing Editors for Science (2005)

Research Interests

My lab is interested in the molecular genetic analysis of virulence of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pestis; these serve as model systems to study bacterial pathogenesis. The long-term goals of our work are to understand the bacteria-host interact

Link to list of publications on PubMed.