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Karen M. Ottemann

Professor and Chair

831-459-3482 (Office)

831-459-4780 (Lab)

ottemann@ucsc.edu

Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself

Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department

Title Professor and Chair

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Microbiology
Disease and Immunity
Human Biology

Web Site

Ottemann Lab
METX Department

Primary Office Location Biomedical Sciences
238

Mail Stop METX

Biography, Education and Training

My research uses molecular biology approaches to understand how the ulcer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori survives in the hostile mammalian stomach and causes disease.

• B.S, University of California, Davis (Bacteriology)
• Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard University (with John Mekalanos)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley in Biochemistry (with Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.)

Summary of Expertise

Helicobacter pylori

Bacterial infection

Bacterial chemotaxis

Teaching Interests

Bacteriology
Molecular microbiology

Advisees, Grad Students & Researchers Liu, Xiaolin (xliu241)
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, (abclarke)
Lopez-Magana, Raymond (rlopezma)
Elshenawi, Yasmine (yelshena)
Lane, Angela (anelane)
Smyer, Sydney (sysmyer)

Courses METX119L
METX200
METX245A

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