Associate Professor
Biography
I began my fascination with microbes at Kenyon College, working with Joan Slonczewski on acid and base survival of bacteria. I performed my PhD dissertation with Roberto Kolter at Harvard Medical School, where I learned the joys of working E. coli and the various ways to survive Boston winters. For my postdoctoral work I switched gears to work on marine photosynthetic bacteria with Penny Chisholm at MIT, and learned exactly how seasick a human can get. In 2005, I joined the Department of Microbiology at the University of Tennessee.