Julie Theriot

Julie Theriot
Born 1967
Nationality American
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, San Francisco
Awards MacArthur Fellows Program
Scientific career
Fields microbiology
Institutions Stanford University School of Medicine

Julie A. Theriot (born 1967) is a microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine,[1] and heads the Theriot Lab.[2] She was a Predoctoral Fellow, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[3] She was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.[4]

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.[5]

Awards

Works

  • "Mechanism for cell shapeliness decoded from fish scales", Nature 453, xi (22 May 2008)[6]
  • 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

References

  1. ↑ "Julie Theriot - Stanford Medicine Profiles". med.stanford.edu.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
  3. ↑ "Julie A. Theriot, PhD - HHMI.org". hhmi.org.
  4. ↑ Beyond the glass ceiling: forty women whose ideas shape the modern world, Editors Sian Griffiths, Helena Kennedy, Manchester University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-7190-4773-2
  5. ↑ "Theriot wins MacArthur Fellowship to pursue her passion for biology", Stanford Report, September 29, 2004, RUTHANN RICHTER
  6. ↑ "Making the paper: Julie Theriot". Nature. 453 (7194): xi–xi. 21 May 2008. doi:10.1038/7194xia.

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