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Dr. Michael Perry joined the Wadsworth Center in 2009 as a Research Scientist in the Biodefense Laboratory. He transitioned to the Laboratory Supervisor in 2014, the Associate Director in 2021, and finally to the Laboratory Director in 2024.Dr.…

As a Special Projects Development Scientist at the Advanced Genomic Technologies Cluster (AGTC), I develop NGS-based solutions within AGTC and collaborate with principal investigators to design and implement innovative sequencing methodologies that…

The Immunology Core is responsible for assisting users in flow cytometry panel development, sample acquisition, sorting, and data analysis. Dr. Jennifer Yates is a classically trained immunologist with extensive experience in using flow cytometry as…

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…

Human fungal infections pose a massive public health burden yet remain severely understudied. Our lab develops and utilizes high-throughput genetic approaches to understand how fungal pathogens cause disease.

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…

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…