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...

Hailing from Queens, New York, Sophie graduated from Cornell University in 2017 with a degree in Biological Sciences and a minor in East Asian studies. She spent the following two years working at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as a Research Technician optimizing the use of bacterial transcriptional signatures for rapid microbial diagnostic technology.  Sophie joined the Medical...

Committee on Microbiology student Cody Cole joined the Eric Pamer Lab in August.  A lifelong Texan, Cody graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017 with a BS in Microbiology and continued working there until moving to Chicago to start graduate school.  While still working out the particulars of his project in the lab, he plans on looking into the impacts that lantibiotics pose in a...

Rosemary Pope, a Committee on Immunology graduate student, joined the Pamer Lab at the beginning of the 2020 Spring Quarter. Rosemary received her B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Oklahoma in 2019.  During her time in the Pamer Lab, her project will be centered on building therapeutic bacterial communities to treat infectious diseases.  In her spare time, Rosemary enjoys knitting and...

Matthew Sorbara's and Eric Littmann's article, "Functional and Genomic Variation between Human-Derived Isolates of Lachnospiraceae Reveals Inter- and Intra-Species Diversity," appears in the July 8, 2020 issue of Cell Host & Microbe.

This article by Matt Wood appeared in the September 17, 2019  issue of The Forefront. In 2017, the University of Chicago Medicine established the Duchossois Family Institute: Harnessing the Microbiome and Immunity for Human Health (DFI). The institute is dedicated to developing new knowledge about human biological defense systems, including the microbiome, and their potential for preventing...