Research Interests:
Microbial physiology, ecology, virulence and evolution Academic Background: 2001-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University 1997-2001 Ph.D. Microbiology, University of Iowa 1995-1997 M.S. Biology, Texas State University 1990-1995 B.S. Zoology, University of Texas at Austin Employment: 2017-Present Professor Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Biology 2017-Present Georgia research Alliance Eminent Scholar 2017-Present Bennie H & Nelson D Abell Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology 2017-Present Co-Director, Emory-Children’s CF Center (CF@LANTA) 2013-2017 Professor, University of Texas at Austin 2013-2017 Director, LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease, UT-Austin 2009-2013 Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin 2006-2009 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin 2002-2006 Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma/Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Honors and Fellowship as Faculty: 2016 Lundbeck Visiting Professorship, University of Copenhagen 2015-2017 Mary M. Betzner Centennial Chair in Microbiology, UT-Austin 2014 Elected to American Academy of Microbiology 2013-2015 John Ring LaMontagne Chair in Infectious Diseases and Global Health Fellow, UT-Austin 2013 ASM Division D chair 2012 William Tonn faculty endowed fellow, UT-Austin 2011 Member faculty 1000, Microbial Physiology & Metabolism Section 2010-2012 American Society for Microbiology branch lecturer 2009 Dean’s teaching excellence award, UT-Austin 2009 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences 2009 President, Texas Branch ASM 2008 Selected as a Burroughs Wellcome Investigator in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease 2008 Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award, American Society for Microbiology 2003 OCAST Young Investigator Award |