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Karla Satchell
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Focus Areas:
Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Infectious Disease, Vaccines
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Kristin Samuelson
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Anne Stewart Youmans Professor, Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases
About
Areas of Focus
- Microbiology
- Bacteria
- Structural biology
- Cholera
- Vibrio vulnificus
- Coronavirus
- Bacterial toxins
Work/Research
- Uses combination of microbiology, biochemistry, cell biology and structural biology to study infectious disease mechanisms
- Revealed the mechanism by which the bacterium that causes cholera hides from the host immune system
- Discovered how a novel toxin made by bacteria can be repurposed to treat cancer
- Currently studying the protein structure of the COVID-19 coronavirus to inform possible vaccine development
Career
Dr. Satchell leads the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases that solves nearly 100 protein structures each year. She is a fellow of the American Association of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been recognized as a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator of Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases.