Tri Beta Spring 2021 Micro Biology & Imunology Talk by Dr. Jessica Hargarten

Speaker: Dr. Jessica C Hargarten
(Postdoctoral Fellow NIAID, NIH) will give a talk entitled:

“From Bedside to Bench and Back Again: Uncovering Human Genetic Susceptibilities to Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis”

Dr. Hargarten received her BS in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis in 2009 and a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 2016 under the mentorship of Dr. Audrey L. Atkin. She joined the lab of Peter R. Williamson, MD/PhD at the National Institutes of Health as a post-doctoral IRTA fellow. As a postdoc in the Translational Mycology Section in the Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology at the NIAID, her research project focuses on understanding how rare genetic variants increase the susceptibility of previously healthy people to fungal infections, particularly those caused by the neurotropic pathogen Cryptococcus