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Emily Troemel received her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent a year in Japan before earning her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of California, San Francisco. She has worked at a start-up biotech company in the Bay Area before returning to academia as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2008, she joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Since joining UCSD, she has received multiple awards for her innovative research, including the Searle Scholars Award, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation Award, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award. Her research focuses on how pathogens attack their hosts and how hosts defend against such attacks, using the roundworm C. elegans as a model organism. C. elegans provides a powerful tractable system for studying host-pathogen interactions, particularly in understanding the role of epithelial cells in mammalian immunity.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA
Leading research in host/pathogen interactions using the roundworm C. elegans.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).