PhD – Microbiology, MS – Microbiology, BS – Biology

Assistant Professor

Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, College of the Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island

My laboratory is interested in polymicrobial interactions in the human oral microbiome. Many oral bacteria are dependent on these multispecies interactions for survival. Our work includes finding bacterial interactions of interest in both health and disease and identifying the mechanisms underlying these interactions so we can exploit them as future targets for anti- or probiotic therapy to either treat or prevent oral infections.

CMB 201 – Medical Microbiology
CMB 211 – Introductory Microbiology
CMB 265G – ‘Grand Challenge’ course, Science and Pseudoscience

Invited Editor – mBio
Reviewer – PLoS One, Microbiology, Microbe

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CELS Graduate Admissions committee
CMB Curricular committee
Institutional Biosafety committee