Event Date
MIC 291: Selected Topics in Microbiology
Work-in-Progress Seminars
Speaker: Isabella Rauch, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University
Dr. Rauch presents: “Host mechanisms and Pathogenic Inhibition of Inflammasome Induced Epithelial Cell Extrusion”
About Dr. Rauch: Dr. Rauch is an Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Oregon Health and Science University. She received her Doctorate (PhD) from the University of Salzburg in Austria, where she studied antimicrobial neuropeptides in the skin. She worked on interferons in intestinal inflammation and inflammasome mediated gastrointestinal pathogen defense in her postdoctoral research at the University of Vienna and during an Erwin-Schrödinger postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. She received the Austrian scientists and scholars in the northern Americas award, the UC Berkeley outstanding postdoc award and the Society of Mucosal Immunology Young Investigator award for her work showing rapid epithelial cell extrusion upon cytosolic pathogen detection by inflammasomes. Dr. Rauch started her own independent lab focusing on epithelial responses to pathogen infection in 2019. Their research uses genetic mouse models of in vivo infection as well as stem cell derived organoids as primary epithelial cell in vitro models.
Host: Antonio Serapio-Palacios, [email protected]