Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
Location
Campus: Boston
Laboratory: Jaharis 423
Contact Information
Office Phone: 617-636-3993
Lab Phone: 617-636-4092
E-mail 
Links
Research Web Site 
Recent Publications 
Graduate Programs
Genetics, Molecular Microbiology
Research Synopsis
Our research is directed toward answering three questions concerning the lifestyle of invasive bacterial pathogens: How are intracellular pathogens able to penetrate into normally nonphagocytic epithelial cells? What factors do intracellular bacteria encode that allow them to survive and grow within the normally hostile environment of macrophages? What role do factors that are important for bacterial-host cell interaction models play in an infection of the host? We perform genetic and biochemical experiments on two bacterial pathogens, the bacterium Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, and Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaire's disease pneumonia.
Lab Members
Whitney Amyot, PhD Student in Molecular Microbiology 
Brandon Anjuwon-Foster, PREP Scholar
Seblewongel Asrat, MERGE-ID PhD Student in Molecular Microbiology
Emy Chen, MD, PhD Student in Genetics
Elizabeth Creasey, Postdoctoral Fellow
Kim Davis, Postdoctoral Fellow 
Dennise de Jesús, PhD Student in Molecular Microbiology
Edward Geisinger, Postdoctoral Fellow
Eva Haenssler, Postdoctoral Fellow
Andrew Hempstead, PhD Student in Molecular Microbiology
Dervla Isaac, Postdoctoral Fellow
Sina Mohammadi, Postdoctoral Fellow
Tamara O'Connor, Postdoctoral Fellow
Kerri-Lynn Sheahan, Research Associate