University of Utah
Project Title: Parallel Phenotyping to Dissect Genetic Determinants of Bacterial Strain Diversity
Award Year: 2022
Biography
Allison Carey is a physician-scientist who received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale. She completed her doctoral training with Dr. John Carlson, using the power of Drosophila genetics to investigate how the Anopheles mosquito uses its sense of smell to detect human blood-meal hosts, a key step in the malaria transmission cycle. After at Roux fellowship at the Pasteur Institute, where she studied signal transduction in the malaria parasite, she completed residency training in Clinical Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then joined Dr. Sarah Fortune’s group at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, developing expertise in the genetics of another globally significant pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Her lab at the University of Utah uses advanced genetics and genomics to study clinically relevant phenotypes such as antibiotic resistance, virulence, and vaccine escape in pathogenic mycobacteria.