Danielle Garsin, Ph.D.
McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Danielle Garsin, Ph.D., is a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry at Harvard University and her B.S. in biological sciences at Cornell University. Her research interests include microbial pathogenesis, gene regulation, host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions.
One NIH-funded research focus is on the roles and regulation of ethanolamine utilization in bacteria. Another is on the biology of the immune responses elicited in the model host Caenorhabditis elegans. Garsin also studies the interactions between Enterococcus faecalis and the human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans; the discovery that the microbes inhibit each other’s virulence has led to anti-infective therapeutic development.
Garsin has received many commendations for excellence in research and education. She earned an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award in Global Infectious Disease, a UT System STAR award, the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award in multiple years and was elected as a fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology. She has served the scientific community as a permanent member of the Prokaryotic Cell and Molecular Biology (PCMB) and Innate Immunity and Inflammation (III) NIH review groups and as an editor of PLOS Genetics and mBio.
One NIH-funded research focus is on the roles and regulation of ethanolamine utilization in bacteria. Another is on the biology of the immune responses elicited in the model host Caenorhabditis elegans. Garsin also studies the interactions between Enterococcus faecalis and the human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans; the discovery that the microbes inhibit each other’s virulence has led to anti-infective therapeutic development.
Garsin has received many commendations for excellence in research and education. She earned an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award in Global Infectious Disease, a UT System STAR award, the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award in multiple years and was elected as a fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology. She has served the scientific community as a permanent member of the Prokaryotic Cell and Molecular Biology (PCMB) and Innate Immunity and Inflammation (III) NIH review groups and as an editor of PLOS Genetics and mBio.