Faculty

Maggie Wear, PhD, MS, studies fungal polysaccharides and catalytic antibodies in the lab and teaches critical thinking and social justice in science.

Krithika Rajaram, PhD, builds and implements genetic tools to study the biology of a unique organelle in human malaria parasites called the apicoplast.

Kimberly Davis, PhD, MSc, studies how members of a bacterial population change during infection, to identify strategies to more effectively combat infections.

Jotham Suez, PhD, MSc, studies the microbiome and the mechanisms through which symbiotic bacteria, viruses, and fungi shape the health of their human host.

J. Marie Hardwick, PhD, studies why neurons die prematurely and how to activate cell death programs in pathogenic microorganisms.

Isabelle Coppens, PhD, MSc, studies how intracellular apicomplexan parasites exploit the resources of their host cells, to expose the parasite’s vulnerabilities.

Heather Lamb, PhD, studies how cells die in the context of health and disease.

Gundula Bosch, PhD, MEd '16, MS, is a scientist and educator leading global education reform through training programs in critical, broad, and interdisciplinary scientific thinking.