Dr. Dianne Newman

Biography

Dianne K. Newman is the Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. She is also a Merkin Institute Professor and an HHMI Investigator. After completing her B.A. at Stanford University in 1993 and her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997, Newman held several academic positions at Caltech, including Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. Since 2006, she has served as a Professor and has taken on several leadership roles, including Executive Officer from 2017 to 2023. Her research focuses on bioenergetics and cell biology, with an emphasis on metabolically diverse bacteria and their survival mechanisms in contexts such as human chronic infections and crop rhizospheres. Newman's work includes studies in environmental geochemistry, isotope biogeochemistry, and molecular microbial ecology, making significant contributions to the understanding of microbial metabolic diversity.

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