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Driven by a passion for protecting natural resources, particularly drinking water, and a longstanding aspiration to work at the Wadsworth Center, Ms. DuBois joined the center in 2008. As the Assistant Director of the Division of Environmental Health…

Boucher LaboratoryHuman fungal infections cause 2.5 million annual deaths yet remain neglected diseases. Our lab studies pathogens in the genus Cryptococcus, which are environmental fungi found in diverse ecological settings worldwide. Cryptococcus…

Our laboratory applies untargeted metabolomics to investigate how the gut microbiome and environmental exposures shape human health and disease. We combine large human population studies, multivariate statistical modeling, and metabolic epidemiology…

Dr. Arryn Craney serves as the Clinical Laboratory Director at the Wadsworth Center, providing regulatory oversight for clinical testing programs supporting infectious disease detection, newborn screening, and clinical chemistry across multiple…

As Associate Director for Administration, Ms. Kilmartin oversees all Wadsworth Center administrative functions, including human resources, budgeting across 12 funding sources, purchasing and travel, extramural grants administration, contract…

Dr. Totten is Deputy Chief of the Laboratory of Viral Diseases (LVD) and Director of the General Virology Laboratory (GVL) at the Wadsworth Center. The GVL is responsible for clinical, reference and surveillance testing for viruses and the…

Quorum sensing (QS) is a process of bacterial cell-cell communication that controls virulence and biofilm formation in many bacterial species, including the pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae. QS relies on the production,…

Ms. Cairns joined the Wadsworth Center in 2003 and spent much of her career supporting the Division of Environmental Health Sciences (DEHS) and its mission to protect public health through environmental monitoring, emergency response, and the…

Dr. Kara Mitchell joined the Wadsworth Center in 2010 as a Wadsworth Center Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) fellow.  Her postdoctoral work at the Wadsworth Center included training in the Bloodborne Viruses Laboratory, the Biodefense…