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Physical & Biological Sciences Division
Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Microbiology
Disease and Immunity
Biology
Biomedical Sciences
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215 (Lab)
METX
Dr. Kimmey began her career at UCLA where she studied heme acquisition in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the lab of Marcus Horwitz, MD. She did her graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis with Christina Stallings, PhD studying autophagy-independent functions of ATG5 in controlling neutrophil mediated susceptibility to M. tuberculosis. As a postdoc she worked with Victor Nizet, MD at UCSD exploring how host responses dictate outcome of acute bacterial infections such as those caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Group A Streptococcus (GAS), Group B Streptococcus (GBS), and Staphylococcus aureus. Her lab at UC Santa Cruz focuses on circadian rhythms and susceptibility to bacterial pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae as well as how microbes influence the vertebrate circaidan clock.
bacterial pathogesis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, circadian rhythms, inflammation, infectious disease, neutrophil, macropahge, mammalian immunity, zebrafish models
Faculty
2022 - 2027. R35 MIRA award, NIGMS
2022 - 2026. Pew Scholar (Class of 2022)
2021. Hellman Fellow (2021 awardee, UC Santa Cruz)
2019. Forbes 30 under 30 - Science, 2019
Postdoc
2017. HHMI Hanna Gray Postdoctoral Fellow Finalist
2017 - 2019. UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow (PPFP, UC San Diego)
Gradaute
2016. Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellow (Washington University in St. Louis).
2013 - 2016. NSF GFRP (Washington University in St. Louis)
Undergraduate
2010 - 2011. MARC Scholar (UCLA).
2009 - 2010. UC LEADS Scholar (UCLA)
METX100 - Introduction to Microbiology
METX206A - Advanced Microbiology
METX210 - Bacterial Pathogenesis
METX238 - Pathogenesis (Inflammation)
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