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gut microbiome, polysaccharide degradation, Bacteroides

Copper, metals, antimicrobials, streptococcus, metabolism, metalobiology

https://immunobiology.arizona.edu/profile/michael-johnson

Epidemiology, Staphylococcus aureus, microbiome, agriculture, history

http://www.taracsmith.com

First-generation college student, Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

https://saramayerbranco.wixsite.com/brancolab

Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

Host-microbe interactions, coastal microbial oceanography, symbiosis

Asian, including Indian subcontinent, Indigenous/Native, Pacific Islander

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timnmak/

From a Muslim country where being gay is illegal by law

metagenomics, contaminated sites, metaproteomics

https://uwaterloo.ca/hug-research-group/

Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

I have a toddler and another kid on the way - so rocking the pretenure mom-of-youngins gig.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

First generation PhD student, Economic hardship

Candida species and bacterial pathogen interactions

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesus-a-romo-ph-d-217084156

orcid.org/0000-0001-5129-1037

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannabublitz/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sciencevlad

University of Pittsburgh, Dept of Biological Sciences

host-microbe evolutionary arms races, co-evolution, Legionella, amoebae

https://www.bio.purdue.edu/lab/mattoo/index.html

1. Moved to US during College to escape political turmoil in home country. Ineligible for grants, worked & took extra credits to finish schooling while paying unaffordable foreign tuition. 2. Two-body problem since PhD delayed career advancement. 3. Established lab as solo parent for 4+ years with husband's job cross country.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

RNA, genetics, physiology, E. coli, Salmonella, Bacteroides

https://mcb.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/cvanderp

LGBTQIA, Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

cfuente@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

https://delafuentelab.seas.upenn.edu/

Host-microbe interactions, microbiome, enteric pathogens

https://www.vumc.org/byndloss-lab/

Biofilms, surface-sensing, pili, vibrio cholerae, regulation

Pseudomonas, biofilms, type IV pili, antibiotic resistance

Clostridium difficile, phenotypic variation, motility, pathogenesis

Wolbachia, Drosophila, insect, host-microbe interactions, arbovirus

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/

Microbiome, trophic networks, plant-microbe interaction

juliana.almario@uni-tuebingen.de

https://discogenome.wordpress.com/

https://girguislab.oeb.harvard.edu

https://davenport-lab.github.io

Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

soil communities enzymes trace gases isotopes modelling

https://www.bordeaux.inra.fr/ispa-ecofun/wordpress/index.php/people/lisa-wingate/

Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Polymicrobial infection, microbe-microbe interactions, Staphylococcus aureus

Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Irz50SYAAAAJ&hl=en

LGBTQIA, First-generation college student

http://adriluromero.wix.com/romero-olivares

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-burgos-garay

Started my PhD at 37 with two kids.

United States of America

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Asian, including Indian subcontinent, African-American/Black

first-generation PhD student, economic hardship, first-generation study abroad student

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QvRcg_sAAAAJ&hl=en

Mental Illness (e.g., PTSD)

laurameredith@email.arizona.edu

http://www.laurameredith.com/

University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty & University of Primorska, FAMNIT

mycorrhiza, arbuscular mycorrhiza, soil fungi, soil ecology, extreme environments, hypoxia

www.mycorrhiza-slovenia.com

Antibiotic resistance, quantitative microbiology, modeling

linkedin.com/in/francine-arroyo-0a8b87a2

Bacteria-Plant Interactions; Plant Pathology; Ralstonia solanacearum

lowepowerlab.ucdavis.edu

jpbalmonte.wordpress.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/haley-brown-b5834357/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/users/gautam-dey

Microbiota, stickleback, host-microbe interactions

kat.milligan-mcclellan@uconn.edu

https://drkatlab.wordpress.com/about/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-elizabeth-martinez-ph-d-0866a173/

Plant-microbe interactions; evolutionary genomics

https://sites.google.com/view/lorirshapiro/home

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

lgarciabayona@bwh.harvard.edu

http://www.comstocklab.com/

Elaine.cloutman-green@gosh.nhs.uk

Chronic illness as a school and university student

Alphaproeobacteria, Evolution, Cell growth/morphogenesis

Venomics, marine, invertebrate, neogastropod, big data

Prefer Not To Disclose

Asian, including Indian subcontinent, Middle Eastern/North African

Postdoc and Lecturer / Educator, Muslim, first-generation PhD, urban public education, socioeconomic status

Lipid biosynthesis, Archaea, Bacteria, Geomicrobiology

https://pangea.stanford.edu/people/paula-v-welander?bounce=pangea2earth

Indiana University School of Medicine

https://gilklab.wixsite.com/home

Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

First-generation PhD student, attended rural schools in Wyoming/Idaho

bioremediation, anaerobic microbiology, acetylenotrophy, subsurface, geomicrobiology

https://water.usgs.gov/nrp/microbiology/

I am mostly of European decent but have 25% Malaysian as my ethinicity.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandra-harris-61a9a218b/

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/faculty-lab-directory/avgousti-daphne.html

African swine fever, vaccines, immune evasion, Interferon

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/emmie-de-wit

insect-microbial symbiosis, microbial ecology, eco-evo dynamics

https://gomezdiazlab.wordpress.com/

https://molecularbiosci.utexas.edu/component/cobalt/item/16-molecular-biosciences/158-dudley-jaquelin-p?Itemid=1224

Broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV and virus esacape

http://smhs.gwu.edu/lynch-lab/

Attended rural high school, am both teaching and research faculty

Drosophila, Wolbachia, microRNA, host-virus interactions

https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1378

picornaviruses, paramyxoviruses, bacteriophage, respiratory syncytial virus, archaeal viruses

https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/sarah-butcher/

Metabolomics; drug discovery; neglected tropical diseases; microbiome

paramyxovirus, arenavirus, filovirus, virus entry, flavivirus

https://melindabrindley.wixsite.com/brindleylab

Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

National Animal Disease Center/USDA

https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/projects/?person-id=44876

https://toryhendry.weebly.com/

attended a rural school, low income

Functional genomics of multidrug-resistant bacteria

Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

https://www.unige.ch/medecine/mimo/en/groupes/953tapparel/tapparel-vu-group-member/caroline-tapparel-vu/

DNA tumorviruses oral pathogenesis in HIV and cancer

adenoviruses, virus-host interactions & genetics, PKR, GCN2

https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/microbiology-immunology/katherine-r-spindler-phd

http://individual.utoronto.ca/maxwell_lab/

Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC)

virus assembly, virus structure, cryo-electron microscopy

http://wwwuser.cnb.csic.es/~sanmartinlab

Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam

human picornavirus, parechovirus, organoids, human 3D cell culture models, pathogenesis, clinical virology

senior clinical virologist, MD PhD

http://sites.igc.gulbenkian.pt/cbv/

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Washington University School of Medicine

Uropathogenic e. Coli, zika virus, Ralstonia insidiosa

https://reproductivesciences.wustl.edu/laboratories/mysorekar-lab/

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Microbiology

http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/~hanley/

Cryptococcus neoformans, Biofilms, Host-Pathogen interactions, Immunology, Microbial Pathogenesis

www.luis-r-martinez-lab.org

The University of Maine, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences

Klebsiella / capsule / social evolution /experimental evolution / gene transfer / comparative genomics

Olaya.rendueles-garcia@pasteur.fr

https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/group-olaya-rendueles-garcia/

Human Microbiome, phage, Enterococcus, Cystic Fibrosis airway infection, Pseudomonas, Rothia

https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/whitesonlab/

Having a dependent/Are a full-time caregiver

antimicrobial resistance genes; genomics; population genetics; pathogen epidemiology/evolution

http://vivo.med.cornell.edu/display/cwid-kmt4001