Joy Sturtevant, PhD

My work now focuses on academia and curriculum development in the education of both graduate and medical students. However, I would love to collaborate or consult. Pathogens have evolved to thwart our immune response and/or 'peacefully' reside within our body. How do they do  this? Our  laboratory  focused on the initial interactions between pathogen and host, and the intracellular signaling events that dictate a response in either host or pathogen. Most of our research dealt with the most common opportunistic fungal pathogen,  Candida albicans. Molecular genetic, proteomic, cell culture and cell biology techniques were used to answer these questions. Our rationale was if we can advance our knowledge of how pathogens adapt and survive in the host; this will assist in the identification of new antimicrobial strategies.