Troy P. Hubbard
Title: Graduate Student / Predoctoral Fellow
Address: The Waldor Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
Division of Infectious Diseases, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, USA 02115
Tel: 001-617-525-4650
Email:troyhubbard@fas.harvard.edu
Education Background:
Ph.D. Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (Defending in early 2018)
B.S. in Biology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA (2012)
Working Experiences:
2013-present Graduate student and NRSA Predoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Matthew Waldor, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
2009-2012 INBRE Scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Karin van Dijk (Creighton university) and the laboratory of Dr. James Alfano (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Research Interests:
Functional genomic studies of bacterial pathogenesis and host pathogen interactions focusing on the enteric pathogens Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio vulnificus, Pathogenic Escherichia coli, and Shigellaflexneri
Professional Activities:
Global health teaching fellow at Harvard University
Mentor to junior graduate students and an HHMI EXROP undergraduate researcher
Science communication in the Boston area through “Science in the News”