Jessie did her undergraduate work at the University of Rochester working antibiotics against Staphlyococcus aureus. She then moved to Vanderbilt where she completed a PhD with Seth Bordenstein in the Department of Biological Sciences. Her PhD work focused on the genetic basis of Wolbachia -induced male killing. Her work resulted in several papers published in mSystems, mBio, PLoS Pathogens and Nature. Her work at KU will involve projects in both Drosophila immunity and Wolbachia. We are excited to have her!
Jessie Perlmutter joins the lab as a postdoc
