| Intro | Microbiologist | ||||
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| From | United States of America | ||||
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Biology Science |
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| Gender | female | ||||
| Birth | 1967 | ||||
| Age: | 53 years | ||||
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Julie A. Theriot (born 1967) is a microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and heads the Theriot Lab. She was a Predoctoral Fellow and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biology and Physics in 1988, and from the University of California, San Francisco, with a Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1993. Her work has investigated bacterial infections, such as Shigella, and Listeria.
Awards
- 2004 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2019 Keith R. Porter Lecture
Works
- “Mechanism for cell shapeliness decoded from fish scales”, Nature 453, xi (22 May 2008)
- Physical biology of the cell, Authors Rob Phillips, Janè Kondev, Julie Theriot, Garland Science, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8153-4163-5
- “Bacterial Manipulation of the Host Cell Cytoskeleton”, Cellular microbiology, Editor Pascale Cossart, ASM Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55581-302-4
- “Movement of Bacterial Pathogens Driven by Actin Polymerization”, Motion analysis of living cells, Editors David R. Soll, Deborah Wessels, Wiley-IEEE, 1998, ISBN 978-0-471-15915-5