Postdoctoral Scholar Nhu Nguyen joined the Pamer Lab at the beginning of 2021 and plans to focus her work on the ability of different Clostridioides difficile strains to penetrate the dense mucus layer. Nhu received her PhD in Microbiology from Michigan State University in 2020 where she studied under Dr. Yann Dufour.  Prior to her time at MSU, Nhu spent 7 years as a research assistant in a tuberculosis lab in Vietnam.