Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Project Title: Investigating the Role of Liquid-liquid Phase Separation in the Interaction Between Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Macrophages
Award Year: 2021
Biography
Dr. Samantha Bell is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Emerging & Re-Emerging Diseases and the Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She received her B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Pittsburgh and went on to earn her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her postdoctoral training at Texas A&M Health Science Center. Throughout her graduate and postdoctoral training, she studied the host-pathogen interactions between macrophages and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) with a focus on how macrophages recognize and respond to Mtb infection. Her research program seeks to untangle how macrophage responses to Mtb are initiated and regulated and how Mtb uses secreted effectors to subvert host responses and cause disease.